WP Rocket is a new premium caching plugin for WordPress, used by almost 5000 websites. It’s powerful and really easy to configure. You can follow WP Rocket on Twitter and Facebook.
“WordPress is so powerful, easy, and the community is absolutely awesome.”
“WordPress affects all our business.”
Thank you, WP Rocket, for sponsoring WordCamp Toronto 2014!
Carbon60 Networks’ enterprise WordPress platform delivers content fast and reliably, making your site highly resilient to both welcome traffic spikes and unwelcome denial-of-service attacks. Carbon60 provides a white glove level of service to support the entire WordPress development and delivery life-cycle, hosted within Canadian data centres.
Their WordPress sandbox allows you to create new WordPress development environments on-demand while an integrated code management service provides a secure place to manage code changes. Sites are then staged for testing using Carbon60’s integrated security and performance testing tools. Once optimized, site code and content are promoted to the production WordPress delivery platform. This platform combines the strengths of an enterprise cloud computing architecture – optimized to host WordPress source code, plug-ins and content – with a vastly scalable and robust global edge content delivery/security system which guarantees your site is secure and delivers high performance to you viewers.
1. WordPress democratizes the web, meaning there’s no need for bloated web departments on staff. Personnel have direct access to easily publish their content. Our clients use WP because of the low barrier to entry, and the large community surrounding it.
2. WordPress plugins & themes create a diverse landscape so not all wordpress sites look and act the same, and can allow for rapid development without having to re-invent the wheel.
While WordPress does democratize the web, sometimes you just need to ask for help!
We have a client who has an ecommerce site which sells thousands of different products. Their navigation menu includes every single item they sell. In addition to this, the site is multilingual, so each nav tree needs to be drawn twice.
A single page load called the DB approximately 35000 times, each load. The webserver load however, remained minimal.
We were able to aggressively cache these db calls, and are working with the client to enforce some content rules to bring down the amount of calls to the database in their navigation. Additionally, we are looking to separate and generate the menu system to be used as an include going forward.
At Carbon60 we are not just interested in publishing your content. We want it to be fast, and stable.
Because Carbon60 Networks is focussed on enterprise requirements, our environments are more secure than some other hosting environments. Typically we do not allow clients access to production environments without permission. This means that supporting WordPress falls on our support department. Users enjoy the convenience of the one-click upgrade, and this is the type of service we strive to provide (though stability and security are top of mind – in the event that the one-click upgrade goes badly, we are present to roll back the change and investigate what went wrong.)
From a hosting/support perspective, WordPress allows us to have a familiarity amongst all sites and this allows us to provide reliable, scalable, support procedures, and lets us implement proven best-practises for securing and maintaining our clients’ sites.
Adding a CDN to your existing site is a great way to speed it up, and keep it up during brief outages.
Porting your enterprise site to a clustered hosting environment is a fantastic way to maintain uptime, and luckily WordPress helps us with the heavy lifting – Sessions are stored externally in cookies and the database so the webservers don’t need much configuration to scale horizontally.
Thank you, Carbon60, for supporting WordCamp Toronto 2014!
“easyPress is a Canadian company specializing in WordPress hosting. A fast, reliable and secure web host is super important when you value your website and its message. Focus your time and energy on your content and let easyPress relieve you of managing the tech that makes WordPress load quickly and consistently. All of our service plans include DNS and email hosting provided by easyDNS. Check out our very affordable offerings at http://easypress.ca/plans/.”
Our favourite thing about WordPress is that it’s high quality open source software.
Take advantage of the happiness bar.
Is it important to work with Canadian (hosting, design, development, etc) organizations and professionals?
A big thanks to easyPress for sponsoring WordCamp Toronto 2014!
“The Genius Web Media has been in operation for over 5 years and is located in the heart of Toronto, Canada. Our Genius team is compiled of intelligent, skilled, and ambitious individuals who are all dedicated to delivering powerful and trendy media.”
“We currently specialize in SIMPLE to COMPLEX Web Development for ALL Online Media purposes. We have the capabilities to develop small to large scaled projects, as well as the capacity to supply new and fresh ideas.”
“We simply LOVE WordPress. Our favourite thing about WordPress is it’s flexibility. We like the challenge of building a website or web app that would not normally be built in WordPress.”
“WordPress has changed the way people develop websites. It has supplied an efficient and effective way to manage content and website assets in one easy-to-use application.”
“Getting involved in the WordPress community is a great way to learn new things and network with the right people.”
“How will WordCamp benefit you?”
A big thanks to The Genius Web Media for their continued support of WordCamp Toronto!
lynda.com helps you learn the skills you need to achieve your full potential. We’re a leading online learning service that helps anyone learn technology, business, software, and creative skills to achieve their personal and professional goals.
“We use WordPress extensively inside lynda.com for internal team sites, and to power our Article Center as it’s a robust, powerful, well-maintained content management system that’s also easy to use for everyone concerned.”
“If you could spend the next 6 months dedicated to learning a new aspect of WordPress, what would that be, and why?”
A great big thanks to lynda.com for sponsoring WordCamp Toronto 2014!
Special note: We have a handful of lynda.com membership coupon codes to give away. You can opt into the giveaway when you buy your WordCamp ticket.
“What started in 2008 as 3 WordPress enthusiasts who met online, from 3 different countries, is now an international team of designers, developers and support ninjas catering for a passionate community of hundreds of thousands of users.”
“From our humble beginnings selling a handful of commercial WordPress themes we now offer a huge catalog of feature rich themes, and a suite of plugins that extend your WordPress experience. Proudly bootstrapped and built around our team’s diverse lifestyles we have big ambitions to become the ultimate WordPress platform provider.
Our flagship product, WooCommerce, is now the world’s most popular eCommerce platform. Powered by WordPress and built by WooThemes, the goal of WooCommerce is to allow you to sell anything online – beautifully. You can integrate with payment processors, easily manage shipping methods and inventory, set up flexible tax rules, and view detailed store reports all from your WordPress dashboard.”
“The community, the extendability and being able to create products that empower thousands of people to do amazing things.”
Thanks to WooThemes for sponsoring WordCamp Toronto 2014!
We’re happy to announce that ticket sales are now open for WordCamp Toronto 2014, November 15-16! The price hasn’t changed from previous years. We’re still at $30 for the whole weekend, including food and refreshments.
Register for WordCamp Toronto 2014
If you’re a confirmed speaker or sponsor, please hold off on purchasing your ticket until we’ve checked in with you. We still have a bunch of reserved tickets and coupon codes to send out. 🙂
“Trew Knowledge is a Toronto based branding, marketing, design and development agency striving to create great marketing communications for the world around us.
We specialize in creating responsive WordPress themes for small and medium-sized businesses all the way up to large enterprises. As vetted WordPress VIP developers, we understand the importance of speed, stability and security for all projects we deliver.”
“While it is hard to pinpoint one thing in particular we would call our favourite thing about WordPress, “community” seems to jump out. Without the WordPress community it would be hard to imagine what the platform would look like today and how far it has come. Everything about WordPress is directly related to the contributors who make it all happen.”
“We use and build with WordPress everyday. It has become critical to our daily operations and the services we deliver. A lot of business want to take control of their website and WordPress makes it very easy to do so.”
“Get involved – attend WordCamps, Meetups, or any other gatherings related to the development community. Sharing insights and experiences with others is a great way to learn and build a network of reliable resources.”
“If there was anything about WordPress you could change, what would it be?”
Thanks to Trew Knowledge for sponsoring WordCamp Toronto 2014!
Muut is a modern, beautiful, and responsive commenting and forum system that you can embed on your own site and style to your liking. The Muut guys set out to bring commenting and forums out of the UX stone age and make them cool again. Any site will benefit from an active community, and starting one with Muut takes just seconds.
“Muut is actually a commenting and forum system that is not limited to WordPress websites, but with our plugin it is definitely perfect for the job.
While WordPress ships with a commenting system and there are many other forum plugins available, Muut unifies the two with one fast, clean, and usable system that can be integrated seamlessly with the website’s user base, and styled directly by the theme. It’s almost as if Muut were designed with WordPress in mind.”
“Give Muut a try; it’s totally free, and totally unlimited.”
“What do you find most bothersome about forum systems available for WordPress?”
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A big thanks to the team at Muut for sponsoring WordCamp Toronto 2014!
Hi everyone!
We’ve made quite a bit of progress since our last update.
Jordan Quintal has joined us to spearhead the accessibility initiative for WordCamp Toronto 2014. Jordan is a longtime member of the Toronto WordPress Group, a WordCamp Toronto presenter, and returning sponsor.
Dejan Markovic will be handling volunteer coordination this year. Dejan is an experienced WordPress developer and event organizer with the Toronto WordPress Group. (If you’re interested in volunteering, please sign up!)
We’re excited to unveil the official logo for WordCamp Toronto 2014:
This was a joint effort between Kobayashi Online and Zeitguys Inc.
We’ve made some adjustments to the site over the last few days. Namely:
We made these changes in hopes that it would improve our site accessibility and usability. If you run into anything that’s causing a problem, please drop a comment below. 🙂
We’ve added a bunch of new sponsors – just take a look at the sidebar! We’ll be rolling out the spotlight posts and formal announcements over the next 8+ weeks in the leadup to WordCamp Toronto.
Interested in sponsoring? We’re still accepting applications.
WordCamp Toronto 2014 (#WCTO) is over. Check out the next edition!