The third Wordcamp in Cape Town, held at the Kirstenbosch Old Mutual Conference Centre drew more than 300 WordPress hackers, fans and the CMS curious. Listen to all the action here.
WordCamp Photography by Thunda.com
Thanks to the team who came out from Thunda.com to take our picture. We all look very pretty.
If you see yourself in these photos, go claim your pic on Thunda.com. The pictures are already on the WCCT social media pages, tag yourself on Facebook or tag yourself on Google+.
WordCamp Photography by Greg Hillyard
A WordPress gathering. Over 300 Campers learning and sharing ideas. Here’s proof that is actually happened. Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together.
If you see yourself in these photos, go tag it on Facebook or tag it on Google+. Why not do both!
Session 13 – How many drummers does it take to build a website by Matt Bush
WordPress gets groovey. Hark back to Demo tapes, hand-drewn gig flyers photocopied using the drama teachers pass-code, distributed by whoever had the afternoon off. Fast forward to the present… how can WordPress help you do all this and more, more effectively.
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Session 12 – Shifting the WordPress Mindset by Matty Cohen
Take a look back in time at the evolution of WordPress core, themes and plugins, compared to present day and forecasting possibilities for the future. Explore the growth of the WordPress ecosystem.
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Session 11 – The Best Tools for the Job by Jeffery Pearce
Whatever your platform, business or blog, you need to use quality themes and plugins in your WordPress site to run your business successfully. This is a less techy talk from Jeff that guides you in choose the best WordPress tools for you. From site building, eCommerce, Security, Hosting etc…
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Session 10 – Panel Discussion
WordPress is a part of many modern businesses, as either the platform for their web presence and marketing, their development platform or sales channel. As amazing as WordPress is, you need more than a WordPress website to start, run and grow a successful business.
Many startups fail and not every great idea is destined to be transformed into a profitable business. Our panel will discuss how they started, funded and managed their businesses from startup idea to successful enterprise.
Session 9b – Elevator Pitch for Blink Tower by Elodie Kleynhans
Blink Tower helps you promote your business by finding the story and telling it to the world with 2D animated movies. Tell a story, don’t use jargon.
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Session 9a – Optimizing WordPress on the Frontend by Byron Rode
Plugins and big custom themes play a massive role on how quickly your site loads, has an effect on your users, search engines and hosting. This talk takes you through optimization methods.
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Session 7 – Site Speed = Success by Anthony Somerset
Find Site Performance from the server to WordPress. A look at how some good performance gains can be made in tuning MySQL and APC and getting the most out of W3 Total Cache.
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Session 6b – Is social media affecting SEO by Neil Pursey
Social media is finding it’s roll in a broader digital marketing strategy, but does it affect SEO at all? Neil Pursey discusses his research to help you understand the value of social media in SEO.
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Session 5 – Cause by Fred Roed
Cause or standing for something is the common factor shared by successfull teams, individuals, entrepreneurs, leaders, visionaries, programmers and disrupters.
Session 4 – Elevator Pitch for Clickatell by Llew Claasen
Clickatell is the largest bulk SMS service in the world and proudly South African. Reach in excess of five billion mobile users and keep the conversation by giving timely and relevant information.
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Session 3 – Monetizing your WordPress website by Bennie Stander
How do you make your website work for you? You have the audience, but your website does not generate sales or leads. This session discusses strategies and techniques to monetize your website.
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Session 2 – How to Hijack a Themeshop by Riaan Knoetze
Starting a WordPress theme shop is tough these days. The sheer number of competitors in the market are immense. This talk explores skills and practical considerations required to successfully distribute commercial themes and other ways to profit from child theme development.
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Session 1 – WordPress to Manage Your Mxit Apps by Eric Clements
mxPress is an Open Source plugin that gives you the ability to integrate WordPress as an App on Mxit. This case study embodies the pioneering spirit of WordPress, the Open Source community at large and asks the question, “What have you not thought about doing with WordPress”.
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Thank You
What a day. We had a great time. Thank you all for coming and for engaging. It was wonderful to see old friends and make new ones.
We would like to thank the speakers for sharing their insight, for inspiring us and for helping us improve in WordPress.
And to our sponsors, thanks for supporting us and for promoting WordPress. Your help is growing a community that we are proud to be a part of.
Thanks to the WordPress community, for all the tweets and the support you have shown. Here are a few that made us feel all warm and fuzzy!
Cape Town is hot! 3 events on 1 day yesterday. @wordcampct (#wcct) #pyconza #digitaledgelive great community forming.
— Mark Slingsby (@markslingsby) October 5, 2012
Loved @wordcampct today, paid R165 for the ticket and walked out with priceless new knowledge #wcct
— Aljerreau Davids (@aljaydavids) October 4, 2012
Thanks to the legend crew, Ashley @feedmymedia & co @wordcampct for a fun event yesterday. Packed house, engaged crowd. Well done guys #wcct
— Fred_Roed (@Fred_Roed) October 5, 2012
@wordcampct is over! It’s been an awesome day. Learnt a lot. Thanks to all the speakers! #WCCT
— Ashraf Slamang (@ashrafslamang) October 4, 2012
Folks at this years #wcct just raised over R2,000 for darg.org.za – warming to see such generosity for our fave furry friends
— Annabel Yeaman (@annabelyeaman) October 4, 2012
looks like the #WCCT is a huge success today 🙂 well done @wordcampct –#iAnM
— ~ Cape Town ~ (@CapeTown) October 4, 2012
WooThemes Competition
There will be two WooNinjas at WordCamp this year, speaking about “Shifting the WordPress Mindset” and “The Best Tools for the Job”.
WooThemes has donated many amazing prizes, the first being 3 lifetime dev club subscriptions, up for grabs in a Twitter competition.
In order to win:
- Like WooThemes on Facebook
- Follow WooThemes on Twitter
- While at WordCamp, write a tweet explaining to everyone which is your favourite WooThemes theme and why, in the following format:
- “Your Tweet @woothemes @wordcampct #WCCT”
The rest of the WooThemes prizes will be going out to the Campers that pose the best questions to these WooNinjas on the day.
- $300 of WooCommerce themes & extensions
- 5 Standard Theme Packages
Have your questions ready!
- Find WooThemes online
Session 8 – Scaling WordPress by Mark Slingsby from RSAWeb
A talk about scaling WordPress informed by experience. Essential for high traffic sites. When should you move away from shared hosting and move to a customised hosting package. Learn the potential pitfalls, how to avoid them and actually improve on WordPress’ delivery performance.
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