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.

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WooCommerce

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a flexible, open-source eCommerce solution.

Build exactly the business you want with full ownership, expandability, and the expertise of a global community.

Whether you’re launching a new eCommerce business, taking a brick and mortar business online, or building sites for clients, WooCommerce gets you set up and selling fast, scaling securely as you grow.

Built on WordPress, the world’s most popular CMS, WooCommerce stores are easy to update and manage. Your content is forever yours and your site is 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

Jetpack

Jetpack is a powerful plugin that provides the ultimate WordPress experience to millions of sites around the world. Whether you’re a hobbyist or a business owner, Jetpack gives you the essential tools that you need to secure, grow, and build your WordPress site.

  • Real-time site backups and unlimited storage, protecting you from data loss.

  • Comprehensive malware and spam defense.

  • Image and asset CDN, speeding up your site and improving your SEO.

  • Traffic-building tools, including email subscriptions, site stats, and social sharing.

If you enjoy your experience with Jetpack, its affiliate program gives you 20% of every sale you refer. With unlimited referrals, the sky’s the limit!

Jetpack is brought to you by Automattic, one of the most trusted names in WordPress.

Whether you’re one person with a single website or an agency with dozens of clients, Jetpack helps you grow with WordPress. Upgrade your WordPress experience today at Jetpack.com.

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GoDaddy

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.

Check out the Free Tools

Bluehost

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

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.

hubspot WCJHB Sponsor

xneelo

xneelo

At xneelo (formerly known as Hetzner) we’re passionate about web hosting – it’s our core business and it’s what we do best. In 1999 we signed up our first customer. Today, over 53 500 customers trust us as their hosting partner. We spend each day working hard to retain their trust. Inspired by our brand promise ‘Trusted in Hosting’, we deliver a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, good value and consistent service delivery.

RunCloud

RunCloud

We are on a mission to enable beginners and experts to be comfortable with using cloud, taking away the frowns by doing away with the intricacies of cloud management and bringing smiles through simplicity. In turn, you can focus on business performance sans the stress of laborious mobilization.

RunCloud is loved by the global community, from individuals to multinational corporations. All the achievements would not have been possible without the solid team who is strong and passionate about bringing forth the best solution that is much needed.

uAfrica

uAfrica

uAfrica.com has been providing cloud-based eCommerce services to SMEs across South Africa since 2004.

Founder and former Managing Director at bidorbuy.co.za, Andy Higgins joined forces with the Jump Shopping team in 2012, which was then rebranded as uAfrica.com in order to facilitate a broader focus on all aspects of eCommerce.

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. 

Payflex

Payflex

Payflex is an established South African FinTech company that offers your customers innovative, flexible payment solutions that increase your sales by up to 30%.

Africa’s first truly “free” pay-later solution

Payflex Pay-Later offers your customers a free spending plan so they can spread their payments over one or more paydays and enjoy their goods today. It’s the perfect draw card for Millennials who are weary of spending money they don’t have. Payflex also offers a competitive and comprehensive Pay-Now solution.

Reduce abandoned carts

The superior Payflex user-experience also reduces your abandoned cart rate – specifically the ability to purchase with one-click. We call it Quick-Click™

All the sales and none of the risk

We pay you upfront, in-full (less a commission) and collect from the customer. There are no set-up or additional fees and you don’t pay card acquisition fees on Payflex transactions.

To find out more about the Part-Payment Revolution, contact Grant at 067 957 5569 or Grant@payflex.co.za

Weglot

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 website owners and developers, Weglot is a translation plugin that works.

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PayFast (Pty) Ltd.

PayFast (Pty) Ltd.

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.

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Page Builder Framework

Page Builder Framework

Page Builder Framework is a modern, fast & minimalistic theme
designed for the new WordPress Era.

Lightning fast

Page Builder Framework was developed from the ground with page speed in mind. There is no bloat.

Made for Page Builders

The theme was designed specifically to work with WordPress page builders, like Beaver Builder & Elementor.

Easy to customize

Change colors, customize your menu and much more all inside the WordPress Customizer.

Absolute Hosting

Absolute Hosting

Absolute Hosting provide bespoke hosting services to SME’s, Resellers +  end-users within South African.

Our core is hosting and we take pride in building Enterprise Grade SuperMicro Servers equipped with high performance SSD’s

Absolute Hosting has launched cost effective WordPress hosting services that are aimed at providing lightning fast page load times, low FTTB and optimized server caching technologies – backed by our phenomenal support.

All WordPress hosting packages include instant setup, automated WordPress setup + an easy to use web based control panel for managing your domain and related services.

Get 30% discount on any of our annual WordPress Hosting Plans + free Co.Za Domain Registration when using the coupon code wordcamp-jhb-2019 at checkout

Offer valid till 31/12/2019 and applies to any annual WordPress hosting plans

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!