Our Sponsors
WordCamp Cape Town would not be possible without our awesome sponsors. Take a moment to read a bit about them and check them out. Be sure to visit them at Word Camp and say thanks!
Diamond
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is an open-source eCommerce platform built on WordPress.
Sell anything online with the flexibility and freedom of the world’s most popular CMS.
- 4+ million active installations
- 55+ million downloads
- 450+ extensions to add and extend functionality
Whether you’re selling a few handcrafted items to a niche market, taking an existing business online, or going global with an enterprise-level eCommerce business WooCommerce gets you set up and selling fast, scaling securely as you grow.
Your content is forever yours and customizable down to the button color. Plus you’re joining a supportive, global community of developers and store owners.
Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of Jetpack and WordPress.com.
Jetpack
Transform how you work with your WordPress sites:Jetpack connects your site to the global services, community, and support provided by WordPress.com. Focus on the substance of your site, not the software.
Jetpack security tools automatically shield your site from spammers, hackers, and malware, while real-time syncing and backup means never worrying about data loss. Traffic-building tools like easy social sharing help you attract readers and search engines, and pages delivered from a high-speed, global content delivery network mean those readers never bounce because of a slow-loading site.
Jetpack’s Affiliate program gives you 20% every time you sell Jetpack to a customer or client — with unlimited referrals, the sky’s the limit!
Whether you’re one person with a website or an agency with a dozen clients, Jetpack helps you grow. Make your site work for you at Jetpack.com
Platinum
GoDaddy
ALL THE HELP AND TOOLS YOU NEED TO SUCCEED ONLINE.
GoDaddy powers the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures. With almost 19 million customers worldwide and 78 million domain names under management, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights and the people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success.
GoDaddy provides everything you need to start, grow, and manage a successful online presence. Put a name on your idea with a new domain. Connect it to a professional email address & Office 365. Launch a website using GoDaddy’s website builder, WordPress or web hosting. Get found with digital marketing tools & services. Protect your site with online security solutions. Need more help? Our GoDaddy Guides are available 24/7 to help you with everything from troubleshooting to professional web design. And if you build websites for clients, check out our GoDaddy Pro program for free tools and resources.
WEBSITE: https://www.godaddy.com
Bluehost
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.
HubSpot
HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading growth platform. Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. Today, over 56,500 customers in more than 100 countries use HubSpot’s award-winning software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. Comprised of Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, and a powerful free CRM, HubSpot gives companies the tools they need to Grow Better. Learn more about HubSpot for WordPress.
xneelo
xneelo (formerly Hetzner SA) is a leading player in the South African web hosting environment. Established in 1999, the company has grown in stature and expertise, currently servicing over 53 500 customers. Inspired by its brand promise ‘Trusted in Hosting’, xneelo delivers a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, good value and consistent service delivery. Services include shared web hosting, managed and self-managed dedicated servers as well as colocation rack hosting.
Gold
PayFast
PayFast is a payments processing service for South Africans and South African websites that enables the easy and safe transfer of money from buyers to sellers. The company allows merchants to accept payment from local and international customers via a variety of different payment methods including cards (credit, debit and cheque), Instant EFT, Masterpass, Zapper, mobicred and SCode. PayFast is integrated into over 80 different ecommerce platforms making setup as user-friendly as possible and everything is secured by robust PCI DSS Level 1 security. In mid-2019, PayFast became part of the DPO Group, spurring the growth of the largest African payment service provider.
Silver
uAfrica.com
uAfrica.com is a custom-built shipping solution which helps online merchants to streamline their shipping and selling processes by providing access to multiple South African couriers on one platform. uAfrica.com also has a Multichannel solution, which gives merchants the ability to sell their goods across multiple platforms such as bidorbuy, Shopify, WooCommerce and PriceCheck. uAfrica.com simplifies your order fulfillments and shipping processes to save you and your company valuable time and money.
Publisher’s Toolbox
WebSuite PWA by Publisher’s Toolbox is a powerful WordPress plugin that transforms the mobile performance of content-rich websites, providing an app-like experience on the web for your mobile users with optimised functionality. Our PWA solutions radically improve user experience on mobile, making it easy to delight your users. For web hosts looking to maximise monetisation options, our Premium PWA solution allows you to configure your own ad tags, and increasing engagement by sending push notifications about new content, even when the browser is closed. WebSuite PWA is supported on all smart phones and tablets. Compatible browsers include Safari, Google Chrome, Android Native Browser.
Weglot
Created to simplify your translation process – the Weglot plugin is a reliable and easy way to make any website multilingual in minutes.
Quick, seamless installation – with no coding required and no developer time needed.
Use Weglot’s simplified interface to manage your translations and order additional manual translation where required. And, say hello to new audiences, as with Weglot all your translated pages are automatically indexed on Google.
Trusted by more than 50,000 websites owners and developers, Weglot is a translation plugin that works.
Bronze
FooSales
FooSales is a secure point of sale (POS) system for WooCommerce that turns any computer, iPad or Android tablet into a cash register.
FooSales makes it easy to sell your products and run your business from anywhere in the world while automatically updating your WooCommerce product inventory, orders, and customer data. It allows you to manage and process physical orders on-the-fly by connecting to your WooCommerce database. FooSales is perfect for retail stores, markets, pop-up shops, mobile events and many others.
FooEvents
FooEvents adds powerful event and ticketing functionality to WooCommerce and will have you up and running within minutes. No ticket fees and no technical skills needed!
FooEvents removes the middle man and makes it possible to sell an unlimited number of custom branded tickets from your own WordPress website without having to pay any ticket fees or commission. FooEvents ensures that you have full control over the ticket sales process and customer data, making it the safest and most flexible event and ticketing solution available.
LightSpeed
LightSpeed Development has been an open source proponent and WordPress developer since 2007. We have developed several open source projects, which you can view on our WordPress.org profile
We actively maintain our theme and tourism software; tagging new releases several times a year with important functionality and security enhancements. Please look at our product sites for the LSX theme and Tour Operator plugin. All our software is available on WordPress.org.
LightSpeed also offers specialised hosting designed for WordPress. In addition to being able to sustain high loads of traffic while using as few resources as possible, our hosting platform has an effective firewall to protect against hacking attempts.
Castos
Castos is a top rated podcast hosting and analytics platform that beautifully integrates into your WordPress site via our Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin. With this you can manage all of your podcast content right from your WordPress site, have your content live in an environment you have total control over, but also have your media assets hosted on a dedicated podcasting platform. This optimizes the experience both for your website visitors and podcast listeners.
Kids Camp
Castos
Castos is a top rated podcast hosting and analytics platform that beautifully integrates into your WordPress site via our Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin. With this you can manage all of your podcast content right from your WordPress site, have your content live in an environment you have total control over, but also have your media assets hosted on a dedicated podcasting platform. This optimizes the experience both for your website visitors and podcast listeners.
Interested in sponsoring WordCamp this year?
Check out our Call for Sponsors post for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!