{"id":285140,"date":"2016-09-07T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T11:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?p=285140"},"modified":"2016-09-07T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T11:58:53","slug":"sponsored-post-lightspeed-partnering-with-wordcamp-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/sponsored-post-lightspeed-partnering-with-wordcamp-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"[Sponsored Post] LightSpeed Partnering with WordCamp Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

LightSpeed<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>are proud to announce that we\u2019re in partnership with <\/span>WordCamp Cape Town 2016<\/span><\/a>. We can\u2019t wait to get involved with and learn from the rest of the city\u2019s community, as well as visitors and speakers from abroad!<\/span><\/p>\n

LightSpeed was founded in 2003 by Ashley Shaw, an entrepreneur and passionate believer in open source. Ashley and the LightSpeed team work on providing specialist solutions to a variety of clients with a focus on serving the Southern African tourism industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

The websites we build provide our clients with tools to get their message across on the Internet in a simple and effective manner.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re proud to have launched our online store this year, with an initial release of a free premium theme, LSX, as well as 6 paid plugins. We\u2019re excited to speak with fellow developers at WordCamp about the project and learn from other Wordies\u2019 eCommerce experiences.<\/p>\n

As a WordPress development team serving largely the Southern African tourism industry, the plugin we\u2019ve poured the most work into is the <\/span>LSX Tour Operators plugin<\/span><\/a>, (you can take a look at a demo site <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>) the result of hundreds of hours of experience in building websites for tour operators. In essence it\u2019s a content management plugin for Tour Operators, with inter-connected post types that cater to the essential needs of every tour operator: accommodations, destinations, tours, activities, reviews, specials, team members and more are some of the content types that LSX Tour Operators helps to piece together to quickly and easily create dynamic Tour Operator websites.<\/span><\/p>\n

The LSX Tour Operator plugin works hand-in-hand with the <\/span>Wetu Importer<\/span><\/a> plugin. It allows existing Wetu customers to import their accommodation and tour content from Wetu.com. Imported content can then be easily fine tuned and adjusted to ensure that the site is perfectly suited to your needs and design specifications.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other products we\u2019ve launched this year that we\u2019re incredibly proud of are the <\/span>CourierIT shipping extension<\/span><\/a> for WooCommerce (providing dynamic shipping rates for South Africa based on sender and customer locations using the CourierIT API) and the <\/span>GiveWP PayFast integration<\/span><\/a>, allowing South African websites to accept donations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LightSpeed\u00a0are proud to announce that we\u2019re in partnership with WordCamp Cape Town 2016. We can\u2019t wait to get involved with and learn from the rest of the city\u2019s community, as well as visitors and speakers from abroad! LightSpeed was founded … Continue reading [Sponsored Post] LightSpeed Partnering with WordCamp Cape Town<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9355949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79eqM-1cb2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285141,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285140\/revisions\/285141"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/hlashbrooke"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}