WordCamp Cape Town 2011 Presentation – WordPress IS a CMS

This presentation was prepared in less than a day after emergency notice standing in for a cancelled speaker. For the full presentation website visit www.the-colab.com/wordpress-cms

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WordPress Meetup – 28 September 09 – Bandwidth Barn

For way too long I’ve been talking to alot of the WordPress guys in Cape Town about organising the next WPCPT meetup, but it seems everyone is completely snowed under and we’ve put it off for more than 8 months now. So Joe of Frogfoot networks has given us a jump start and gotten the [...]

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Checkout the new WordPress Meetup site

Heads up. Today is WPCPT3 at the Bandwidth Barn from 4pm – 7pm. We’ve just launched our new theme designed by yours(that’s me) truly and coded by Paul Weingartz who did a fantabulous job. Check us out at www.wordpress.org.za

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The benefits of a free wordpress.com website for startups

Whether you are a small business just starting out, or an organisation which does not currently have the funds to develop or host your own website, you’re probably still investigating ways of getting online in some way or another. It’s a fact of life for most businesses in this modern age, that being online is [...]

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How can we make WPCPT meetup #3 rock?

All you wordpress superstars, Planning for wordpress meetup 3 is under way. We can’t do a thing without wordpressy peeps though. Check out the latest post on how we can make the next meetup Rock Big Time. We got some ideas to start you off, first off we’d like some feedback if you were at [...]

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WordPress Meetup Cape Town #2 takes wpcpt meets a step up

Yesterday’s wordpress meetup at the Bandwidth Barn was a step up from the first one held in Feb. Because of my huge workload right now this post will be written one sentence at a time. For now if you don’t yet know about the wordpress meetups check it out at http://wpcapetown.wordpress.com or just google “wordpress [...]

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What’s the whole buzz about WordPress 2.5?

As you may have heard WordPress 2.5, the much hyped upgrade from 2.3 skipping 2.4 has been delayed for more than the promised week. I don’t know much about what they’ll be doing with the new release and took a little peak at the demo site. So what is really different about WordPress 2.5 Admin [...]

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The Official WordPress Meetup Cape Town Logo

That is of course if anyone disagrees in and provides something better. I did a few roughs and seems this one was the favourite, so in the spirit of moving forward, I’m planning on whipping up an I’m attending button for you to put onto your blogs. Lets hope this will stimulate a little more [...]

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WordPress Meetup Cape Town #2 Coming up soon

Hi All you wordpress Gurus, Rockstars and enthusiasts out there. The second WordPress cape Town Meetup is closing in on us and registration is open. The first meetup was a great success even though numbers were relatively low but we expect a much larger turn-out for session 2. No payments necessary this time as the [...]

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1st WordPress Meetup Cape Town – Post Mortem

It was good to finally meet up and discuss wordpress with other enthusiasts today, and to see where others’ minds are at with regard to the future of the cms.

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WordPress Meetup Cape Town – Monday 18 Feb

Finally it’s here, something I’ve been wanting to organise myself but haven’t managed to get around to doing, an (un)conference style wordpress meetup, and hopefully only the first of many to happen in Cape Town. Callum Macdonald, nomadic web worker and travelling entrepreneur hailing from Scotland was responsible for setting the ball in motion after [...]

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