Our Sponsors
We would like to thank each and every sponsor involved with this year’s WordCamp Johannesburg. Without you this wouldn’t be possible.
Space Station
WooCommerce
28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.
- 3+ million active installations
- 34+ million downloads
- 450+ extensions to add 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 will get you set up and selling fast and scale securely as you grow. Plus your content will be forever yours and customizable down to the finest button color.
Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com.
Jetpack
Transform how you work with your WordPress sites and rest easy knowing they’re always firing on all cylinders. Jetpack connects your site to the global services, community, and support provided by WordPress.com so you can focus on the stuff that matters.
Jetpack automatically shields your site from the unwanted attention of spammers, hackers, and malware, while real-time sync and backup means you don’t have to worry about data loss. Straightforward traffic-building tools help you attract the attention of readers and search engines. Pages and videos are delivered at high speed from a global, ad-free content delivery network.
With Jetpack’s Affiliate program you can earn 20% for every sale of Jetpack to your customers and clients. And with unlimited referrals, the sky’s the limit! Refer as many clients and contacts as you can, and get paid for every sale you generate.
Make your site work for you. Get your Jetpack today at Jetpack.com
Rocket
GoDaddy
GoDaddy Pro offers a robust suite of free tools to web developers & designers to help them save time managing all their clients and sites. With GoDaddy Pro, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage all their WordPress websites from one place. Exclusive time-saving tools let you update WordPress core, plugins and themes with one click, as well as automate WordPress backups, cloning and migrations. Get real-time performance, security and uptime monitoring across all your websites. Additionally, your free membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support.
When you pair GoDaddy Pro with GoDaddy hosting products, the benefits are even greater.
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.
uAfrica
uAfrica offers online eCommerce tools to help streamline your business processes when it comes to fulfilling and shipping orders to customers.
With integrations into WooCommerce, Shopify, bidorbuy and PriceCheck, uAfrica is unrivalled in their ability to increase your online brand visibility with their outstanding Multichannel offering and uAfrica’s Shipping is second to none with their automated processes, discounted shipping rates and innovative features to help companies, large and small, to manage fulfillments on a daily basis.To find out more, email support@uafrica.com or call us in the office on 012 940 1060.
Hetzner
Inspired by its brand promise ‘Trusted in Hosting’, Hetzner focuses on delivering a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, performance value and good service delivery. Services include shared web hosting, managed & self-managed dedicated servers, colocation rack hosting and custom hosting solutions.
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PayFast
PayFast is the go-to South African payment gateway that allows you to start selling online with the least amount of effort possible. Offering a wide range of payment methods through a single integration, South African businesses can immediately offer relevant products to their customers. Recurring billing and subscription services, at no extra fee, allow for many new business models to support progressive and growing SA SME’s. Get in touch on sales@payfast.co.za.
Trisha Cornelius
Trisha Cornelius helps people to get their business, cause or personal site online with the minimum amount of stress and fuss. Trisha is a freelance web designer and developer who is passionate about WordPress and web standards. She loves helping people to showcase the best of their business.
Trisha believes that the power of having a WordPress website is that it can adapt with your changing circumstances. She started her web design journey in 2009 after she started a blog. A naturally curious person this led to adventures in learning HTML and CSS. Her thirst for knowledge continued as she began exploring copy writing, content strategy, search engine optimization, social media, user experience and all the things that help you have a great website.
One of the many reasons that Trisha loves and recommends WordPress is its flexibility. Trisha loves helping people express their brand identity with WordPress themes. She is an advocate for the use of WordPress plugins. Because Trisha has worked with WordPress for nearly ten years she is able to assist people with a suitable strategy for implementing functionality on their website. As a pragmatist Trisha does not believe in wasteful expenditure…and therefore will not reinvent the wheel unnecessarily but will assist in finding, evaluating, installing, activating a WordPress plugin before developing a custom plugin.
You can hire Trisha to help you:
- Get your business online for the very first time
- Update your website so that it looks like it was not developed at the dawn of the internet era
- Develop a content strategy that works with your brand
- Get your website to help you generate sales
- Help you customize landing pages
- To manage your website
- To provide you with training so that you are able to make sure that you can do what you want your website to do
- To provide WordPress training so that you can make the most of its powerful tools without feeling stressed or intimidated
Paid Memberships Pro: WordPress Membership Plugin
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Over 75 Add Ons to extend your membership site.
Paid Memberships Pro is 100% GPL and available for free from the WordPress repository or on our website. The plugin adds member management and subscription revenue to your WordPress-powered website with extensive features for level setup, pricing, restricting content and membership benefits. Your members can complete checkout and update their billing information directly on your site.
The full version of the plugin is offered with no restrictions or additional licenses required. It’s flexible enough to fit the needs of almost all membership-based companies and organizations and includes extensive hooks, filters, and recipes allowing developers to tailor it to your specific needs. Developers can get involved at our GitHub page.
Visit https://www.paidmembershipspro.com for documentation and support.
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Servebolt.co.za
Servebolt provides high performance Managed hosting for WordPress and WooCommerce that is known to be lightning fast and scalable. Servebolt’s speed applies to both the front-end, the backend and the databases. We opened region South Africa data center in October 2018!
Any Servebolt Plan will automatically scale to more than 500 simultaneous visitors, which is ideal for e-commerce, viral blogs and other high traffic sites. For normal business sites, prices can start as low as 8 euros per site per month, with the same performance and scalability as our high performance plans.
Do you run an Agency? Get a 20% recurring revenue stream on all hosting by joining the Servebolt Partner Program.
Flicker Leap
Flicker Leap is a web development, marketing and problem-solving agency. They provide digital solutions (development, marketing, eCommerce and server/email infrastructure) to companies with a focus on achieving growth through partnership, actionable metrics and quick iterations (hey agile!)
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!