Thank You!

That’s a wrap!

Another weekend of WordPress is behind us and we want to thank all our speakers, sponsors, volunteers, organizers & attendees for another awesome WordCamp Toronto. This year we managed to connect several IT communities in Toronto by having speakers from a11y community (Billy Gregory), devto community (Henri-R Brisard) & Ember community (Taras Mankovski). Also, besides having speakers coming from all over Canada & US, we had 2 speakers from Europe, too – Florian Gottschall from Germany & Daniel Kanchev from Bulgaria. We are very proud we have achieved this as we wanted to show that WordPress connects people from all over the world & across IT communities. Another first this year for WordCamp Toronto was having several workshops (without purchasing an additional ticket) where people had the opportunity to learn WordPress hands-on.

How did we do?

Because we want to continue improving our WordCamp we are very interested in what you have to say about WordCamp Toronto 2016. We have created a short, 5 minutes survey where you can tell us about your experience with WCTO16 and help us improve it in the future. The results will be posted on our website.

What’s next?

Thanks to Ted Rogers School Of Management, Ryerson University

This was our first year at TRSM and we want to thank them for being the marvelous host.

Thanks to our Sponsors

A huge thanks to all our wonderful sponsors:

A Special Thanks to:

See you all next year and don’t forget

Sponsor Spotlight Post – Hover

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What is Hover?


Hover is a Toronto-based domain name provider that makes finding, buying and managing domains as simple as possible. 

As much as we love domain names, however, we understand that not everyone thinks about them every day like us (shocking, right?). That’s why we don’t complicate the process with confusing upsells, and focus on things you actually want like providing awesome support — including phone support without any annoying phone trees.

Tell us an interesting and/or funny story about Hover & WordPress

A few months ago, we published a blog post called “10 Easy Touch-Ups To Improve Your Design Website.” One of the recommendations listed was to always check your spelling and grammar…and wouldn’t you know it, for tip #3 we accidentally wrote “reall” instead of “really.” Oh, the irony! Luckily, one of our readers quickly pointed this out in the comments section (through our Disqus plugin), and WordPress enabled us to swiftly fix the typo before too many other people noticed this mistake. Although, writing about it now probably isn’t going to help too much towards keeping the mistake under the radar
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What would you recommend to the attendees of WCTO16?

Besides saying hi to us at the Hover table? Check out Brian Rotsztein’s talk if you’re able to. We recently attended WordCamp Montreal and saw his talk there, and he certainly has some interesting ways of finding unique content to write about!

Sponsor Spotlight Post – Art & Science

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Art & Science Digital Experience Design is a team of creative technologists who don’t see art and science as two separate things.

Our designers are as analytical as our coders, and our coders are as creative as our designers. We’re “technology agnostic”, meaning that we don’t play favourites. The best technology solution is the one that’s right for the job.

We have a ten-year history of creating digital experiences for some of the biggest brands in Canada, launching new brands designed from the ground up, and helping new businesses get off the ground with proven customer-centric strategies.

With the recent acquisition of Maple North, we’ve added a robust mix of services to our offering to help our clients build their site traffic, test their messaging and ultimately surpass their lead-generation and sales objectives.

Art & Science is a huge supporter of the WordPress community, and a number of our team members are involved in core contribution and local WordPress community meetups and conferences. We’re proud to have sponsored WordCamp Toronto 2016 as a way of giving back to the community that has been so good to us!

Sponsor Spotlight Post – Carbon60 Networks Inc.

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“To deliver your WordPress web property without fail, Carbon60 provides a white glove level of service to support the entire WordPress development and delivery life-cycle, hosted within our Tier 3 grade Canadian Cloud data centres.

Our WordPress sandbox allows design/development teams 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 our world-class 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.

As a result, our WordPress delivery platform delivers content faster and more reliably, making your site highly resilient to both welcome traffic spikes and unwelcome denial-of-service attacks.”

Sponsor Spotlight Post – ThemeIsle

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Need a WordPress theme that’s actually easy to use and to customize? Great, that’s what we’re here for! WordPress themes are our bread, butter, and rum! We know them. We live them.

We’re ThemeIsle. But hey, don’t take my word for it. Here’s something that never lies – raw numbers:

We have one of the top 10 most popular themes released last year in the theme directory.

Our plugins have been downloaded more than 500,000 times .

Sponsor Spotlight Post – Simplistics

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With over 200 WordPress websites under our belt, Simplistics Web Design Inc. continues to be dedicated members of the Toronto WordPress development community. Simplistics’ builds custom WordPress websites and applications.

The only thing our clients love more than the simplicity of updating their own website’s content is the quick turnaround time and professional web design of their WordPress website.

At Simplistics, building WordPress websites is not just our job – it’s our passion. And it can be seen throughout our work with all of our clients. They love our dedication, attention to detail and plain talk.

Sponsor Spotlight Post – WP Engine

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WP Engine powers amazing digital experiences for websites or applications built on WordPress. The company’s premium managed hosting platform provides the performance, reliability and security required by the biggest brands in the world, while remaining affordable and intuitive enough for smaller businesses and individuals. Companies large and small rely on WP Engine’s award-winning customer service team that specializes in quickly solving technical problems, and creating a world-class customer experience. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has offices in San Francisco, California, San Antonio, Texas, and London, England.

Sponsor Spotlight Post – GreenGeeks

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GreenGeeks is an independently owned and operated green web hosting provider since 2008. GreenGeeks specializes in managed WordPress hosting making hosting WordPress websites easy with automatic 1-click install, managed updates, enhanced security, blazing fast website performance and 24/7 U.S. based support.

Sponsor Spotlight Post – Pasada Media

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Pasada Media is a Toronto-based web development and media production firm established in 2010. We help amazing people do incredible things with WordPress.

Our services include WordPress website design and development, recorded and live streamed video production, and still photography for event coverage, promotion, portrait and fashion.

Sponsor Spotlight Post – HYPEStudio

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Whether you’re looking for a brand new theme for your site, or a powerful plugin to enhance its feature and functionality, HYPEStudio have you covered. Customer satisfaction, quality and innovation is what drive us forward. We enjoy creating WordPress products such as HYPESocial – Buffer PRO, Topcat Lite & HYPE Theme, that help you succeed with your online business.

HYPEStudio team makes WordPress themes and plugins with only one thing in mind – YOU!

Sponsor Spotlight Post – BoldGrid

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BoldGrid is a website builder powered by WordPress. It is a free set of WordPress plugins, themes, and other content that allows site creation and management similar to non-WordPress website builders. By placing WordPress more in line with DIY site builder solutions on the market, our mission is not only to make WordPress more accessible and easy for beginners to utilize, but also automate and streamline typical WordPress tasks to provide a fast, creator-friendly platform that even web professionals will appreciate.

Experience WordPress as a website builder, including: free pre-built themes, drag and drop editing, integrated image banks, simplified photo editing, built-in staging, automated backups, and so much more.

BoldGrid will have you creating professional looking WordPress sites in minutes!

www.boldgrid.com

Sponsor Spotlight Post – A2 Hosting

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Since 2003, A2 Hosting has specialized in linux-based, developer-friendly hosting. We cater to the WordPress community by offering robust servers and hosting accounts at an affordable cost. We back up our hosting with 24/7 support available by phone, ticket, or live chat.

A2 is active in the WordPress community – we dedicate a percentage of our development time to WordPress as part of the Five for the Future initiative, and we are active in many WordCamps. Our in-house Application Optimizer, Ben Cool is also an organizer of the Ann Arbor WordCamp, and speaks at many other WordCamps across the country.

Sponsor Spotlight Post – Flywheel

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Flywheel is a delightful platform that empowers designers, developers, and digital agencies to focus on what they do best — building beautiful, functional sites for their clients. We make it a breeze to create and develop WordPress sites, handle hosting, manage projects, and ultimately scale your business.

Sponsor Spotlight Post – FlowPress

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FlowPress is a Toronto based Developer Operations agency passionate about WordPress and JavaScript. Our clients look to us to put out fires and then apply our expertise and insight to the prevention and mitigation of future problems. If we can leave it better than we found it, it was a good day.