We have selected the non-profits for 2019's do_action WordPress Charity Hackathon in Cape Town and have opened up sign-ups! You can find all the information here: https://doaction.org/event/cape-town-2019/ This year's organisations are a great selection from all across the spectrum of non-profit work and we're very excited to be working with each and every one of... Continue Reading →
We're very excited to announce that sign-ups are now open for our fourth annual do_action WordPress Charity Hackathon! We have a great selection of 10 non-profits that we will be working with and we are looking for participants from the local community to work on their brand new sites. All skill sets are needed! As... Continue Reading →
This is a joint event with the Cape Town Front-end Developers meetup group - you can RSVP on their event. For the first meetup of 2017, we will be joining up with the Cape Town Front-end Developers meetup group to talk about ReactJS and how you can use it with WordPress. The meetup will be held... Continue Reading →
On Tuesday, 13 December (this coming Tuesday) we're hosting our final meetup for 2016. We will be gathering at Hint Hunt at 18:30 to hang out as a community and hear from Thierry Muller who will be talking about code quality and why it matters for businesses as well as for developers. You can find out all... Continue Reading →
In September this year, we all came together to improve our WordPress skills, build some community spirit, and just generally have a great time at WordCamp Cape Town 2016. One of the things we promised at the event was that all of the day 2 sessions would be recorded and the videos published online for everyone to... Continue Reading →
As a local WordPress community we have an opportunity to connect with each other in a way that we can never really connect with those outside of Cape Town. To foster those connections and to give us space to become a more close-knit community of WordPress users, we're going to be getting together as a community on... Continue Reading →
The Global WordPress Translation Day is 1 full day (24 hours) dedicated to bringing WordPress to more people around the world. It includes 24 hours of live training sessions on WordPress internationalisation & localisation as well as communities getting together to translate WordPress into their local languages. You can find out more on the Global... Continue Reading →
This blog has been somewhat neglected of late and that's largely because we just haven't been putting in the time into it that we should be. To some degree, the same can be said for our local meetup group - while we (the organising team) have endeavoured to organise regular events for the community, we have... Continue Reading →
While you are all no doubt getting excited for WordCamp Cape Town 2015 (I know I am!), this is a brief interlude to introduce you all to a great new channel of communication that we have opened up to the WordPress community all across South Africa: The WordPress South Africa Slack Channel!
[box]This post originally appeared on WooThemes.com - head over there to leave a comment.[/box] Since we posted a wrap up post about the first do_action( 'wordpress-charity-hackathon' ), we have heard from a number of people all over the world who are interested in replicating the idea in their own cities. We will soon have a... Continue Reading →
