Author Archives: WordCamp.org

WooCommerce Core Plugin Review

WooCommerce WooLabs, a division of WooThemes, has recently launched their first offering to the market, an e-commerce plugin called WooCommerce. This opensource plugin was developed with the aim that it will be as easy to setup and use as WordPress … Continue reading WooCommerce Core Plugin Review

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WP-eCommerce – Dan Milward

Dan is going to give everybody a quick over view of their e-Commerce Plugin, take everybody through the latest version, install a cool theme or two (maybe even a WooTheme Theme), and quickly take everybody through the purchasing process – … Continue reading WP-eCommerce – Dan Milward

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LightSpeed will be hosting WordCamp Cape Town 2012

This year WordCamp Cape Town has shown that the interest in WordPress runs deep in the South African community. As organizer of the event, Ashley Shaw and LightSpeed WordPress Development has learned a lot from organizing WCCT 2011 and has committed … Continue reading LightSpeed will be hosting WordCamp Cape Town 2012

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WordPress as a CMS – Why and How – Nur Ahmad Furlong

This will cover a quick introduction on WordPress as a CMS, the advantages attached to it, achieving basic requirements of a website easily and quickly using already existing plugins, themes and basic customization of existing themes that do not require … Continue reading WordPress as a CMS – Why and How – Nur Ahmad Furlong

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Yoast’s SEO plugin for WordPress – Neil Pursey

Neil spoke about Yoast’s SEO plugin for WordPress. We will give a brief overview of SEO and what it means to be #1 in Google search. Our main topic of discussion will be around Yoast’s SEO plugin for WordPress, how … Continue reading Yoast’s SEO plugin for WordPress – Neil Pursey

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Winners of the Wren bags

Wren bags are very special because every bag has a history, like the Wren laptop bags that were gave away at wordcamp Cape Town 2011. The Laptop bags had a previous life as a packaging that has cement mixing instuctions … Continue reading Winners of the Wren bags

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Building high volume websites with WordPress – Roy Foubister

Roy spoke about Building high volume websites with WordPress. I decided to take a real life approach – you land a busy WordPress site that spikes performance every few days, you get the server from the hosting co. and then … Continue reading Building high volume websites with WordPress – Roy Foubister

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Panel Discussion: Making Money with WordPress

A profitable and vibrant ecosystem has evolved around WordPress with many leveraging the open source CMS to build successful businesses. Join us as our four panelists discuss the art of making money with WordPress at the core of your business. … Continue reading Panel Discussion: Making Money with WordPress

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Panel Discussion: The Future of WordPress Publishing

WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform and online publishing CMS in the world. Come listen to our four expert panelists discuss what the future holds for this powerful platform. Panelists: Charl Norman, Marc Perel, Neil Pursey and Joe … Continue reading Panel Discussion: The Future of WordPress Publishing

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WordPress as a mobile publishing platform – Matt Geri

Having developed MobilePress, I have unique experience and knowledge about using WordPress as a mobile publishing platform.

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Get the WordPress relationship working – Jess Green

Give a man a fish and he’ll follow you for a day, teach him to fish and he’ll follow you for a lifetime. The way to get repeat and loyal WordPress clients is to get them involved and learning, not … Continue reading Get the WordPress relationship working – Jess Green

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Using WordPress as a development framework – Jeff Pearce

Using WordPress as a development framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in Web development. WordPress gives you a base set of application functionality such as user management, routing, caching, that you don’t need to build … Continue reading Using WordPress as a development framework – Jeff Pearce

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Responsive Web Design – Jason Bagley

How does a designer adapt to the ever increasing number of screen resolutions, devices, input modes and browsers these days? Creating different versions of a website hosted on multiple sub-domains is a very archaic way of trying to solve this … Continue reading Responsive Web Design – Jason Bagley

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What a 60’s rock n’ roll band can teach us about online publishing – Fred Roed

Is content still king? The accessibility of CMS platforms such as WordPress has lead to an ever-increasing stream of content being pushed online, and the web is awash with clutter. If good content no longer holds the key to traffic, … Continue reading What a 60’s rock n’ roll band can teach us about online publishing – Fred Roed

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Syndicating your blog – Craig Strachan

Using the power of feeds to increase your readership by automate distributing your content. Learn how to increase your readership and gain more exposure to your blog. Learn how to use existing (and mostly free) tools to set-up a system … Continue reading Syndicating your blog – Craig Strachan

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