Author Archives: Ash Shaw

About Ash Shaw

I founded LightSpeed in 2003 as an IT Support company, then converted to a WordPress Development & Design agency in 2007. We have been a fully remote team since 2014. Ash is a based Cape Town, a beautiful location with mountains and sea within 10 minutes cycle.

BizzThemes Competition

BizzThemes are giving away 10 themes to our WordCamp attendees on the day. In order to win one of these themes, you have to do the following: Follow BizzThemes on Twitter While at WordCamp, write a tweet explaining to everyone … Continue reading BizzThemes Competition

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Bugherd Competition

Bugherd are giving away 3 of their “1 year studio plan” ($600 value each). In order to win one of these subscriptions, you have to do the following: Sign up for the Bugherd service Like Bugherd on Facebook Follow Bugherd … Continue reading Bugherd Competition

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GitHub Competition

GitHub are giving away 5 vouchers for their micro plan to our WordCamp attendees on the day. In order to win one of these themes, you have to do the following: Follow GitHub on Twitter While at WordCamp, write a tweet … Continue reading GitHub Competition

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AppThemes Competition

AppThemes are giving away 2 Developer Memberships to a pair of lucky WordCampers, valued at $349. In order to win one of these Developer Memberships, you have to do the following: Like AppThemes on Facebook Follow AppThemes on Twitter While … Continue reading AppThemes Competition

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Super Single Vineyards Competition

Super Single Vineyards are giving away 1 x mixed box of wine and 1 x Top100 Wines of SA book. In order to win one of these prizes, you have to do the following: Like the Super Single Vineyards group … Continue reading Super Single Vineyards Competition

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Sucuri Security Competition

Sucuri are giving away 3 Premium Memberships, each to the value of $89.99. In order to win one of these licences, you have to do the following: Like Sucuri Security on Facebook Follow Sucuri Security on Twitter While at WordCamp, … Continue reading Sucuri Security Competition

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BraveNewCode/WPtouch Competition

BraveNewCode are giving away 2 single licences for WPtouch Pro, their leading mobile theming plugin. In order to win one of these licences, you have to do the following: Like BraveNewCode on Facebook Follow BraveNewCode on Twitter While at WordCamp, … Continue reading BraveNewCode/WPtouch Competition

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Sponsor Spotlight: LightSpeed

LightSpeed WordPress Development is a Cape Town based WordPress Web development studio. Specialists in WordPress, BuddyPress, WooCommerce and Mobile Development, we build WordPress websites and scalable social networks focused on User Experience, Functionality and Aesthetics.LightSpeed’s latest product offering is The Publisher … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: LightSpeed

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WordCamp Cape Town Registration and General Info – Please Read This!

This Thursday at Kirstenbosch Gardens we have WordCamp twice as big as last year! To ensure a smooth run and a successful WordCamp, we’ve compiled some basic information you’ll need. Registration times Registration starts at 07:30, nearly two hours before … Continue reading WordCamp Cape Town Registration and General Info – Please Read This!

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Cape Town’s Open Device Lab

Mobile and testing With the meteoric rise of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, and ways of dealing with them such as Responsive Web Design, it’s a very interesting (and challenging!) time to be in the pixel business. One of the biggest challenges we … Continue reading Cape Town’s Open Device Lab

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WordCamp Cape Town Social Media guidelines #WCCT

Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter provide a venue for conversation before and after any conference or networking event. Twitter especially has become the default secondary communication channel at events, and WordCamp Cape Town is no different. During … Continue reading WordCamp Cape Town Social Media guidelines #WCCT

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Thank You for Volunteering

The WordPress community is notorious for its enthusiasm and a willingness to share time and knowledge. This has been certified by all our eager attendees and especially our volunteers. We want to take a minute to single out the volunteers … Continue reading Thank You for Volunteering

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Sponsor Spotlight: Clickatell

Founded in 2000, Clickatell is a global leader in providing the ability for its customers to alert, interact and transact with their customers, business partners and communities. Utilizing its global footprint, Clickatell can deliver short message services (SMS) through its … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: Clickatell

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Sponsor Spotlight: RSAWEB

RSAWEB is an established and rapidly expanding Internet Services Provider, specialising in True Cloud, CDN, Internet access for business and home, hosting and enterprise-class data centre solutions. Established in 2002 by Rob Gilmour and Mark Slingbsy – RSAWEB has now … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: RSAWEB

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Show your support for DARG

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Sponsor Spotlight: Inkfish Design Studio

INKFISH is an established design studio with a solid reputation for creating visually compelling websites, email newsletters, brochures, logos and business stationery. With experience in beauty, arts, architecture, NGO, property, education, tourism and food & beverage industries there is hardly … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: Inkfish Design Studio

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Schedule Updated

We added a few tweaks here and there, just to neaten it up, nothing major. But this is a good opportunity to remind you to bookmark the schedule page. You’ll want to keep coming back to it time and again, … Continue reading Schedule Updated

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Volunteer Spotlight: Amanda Devine

Tell us a bit about yourself. I am a marketing and social media consultant for a diverse range of clients. This means that no two days are ever the same, I could be writing about wine one day and photographing … Continue reading Volunteer Spotlight: Amanda Devine

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Sponsor Spotlight: PriceCheck

PriceCheck.co.za, a part of the MIH Internet Africa Group, is South Africa’s leading comparison shopping destination and the user-base increases daily as more and more people turn to comparison shopping. On a monthly average, PriceCheck receives in excess of 600 … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: PriceCheck

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Sponsor Spotlight: Kri8it

kri8it is a full-service digital marketing agency with the expertise to act as a strategic digital partner to our clients. We pay close attention to our clients’ business objectives and ensure that all your web-based activities are aligned, and that … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: Kri8it

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