About

The Conference

WordCamp New Zealand is a two-day conference focusing on and around the WordPress platform. It is a global event that has been held everywhere from California to China, and the numbers continue to grow.

WordCamp New Zealand was brought about after several discussions at WordCamp Australia about holding a WordCamp “across the pond” in New Zealand. Three of the Kiwis in attendance quickly started organising the event.

WordCamp New Zealand is organised by the WordCamp Trust of New Zealand. The WordCamp trust was formed in order to create a central hub for the community and encourage networking throughout the Wordpress community.

Organisers

dialogCRM - thinking and planning for marketing successJason Kemp – DialogCRM on Twitter @dialogCRM
Jason has worked for many years on business development for IP-based companies, especially software. With a background in management consulting, marketing and sales, he spends most of his time helping businesses understand the benefits of open source and WordPress.

Instinct WP-e-Commerce Plugins for WordpressDan Milward – Instinct Entertainment on Twitter @danmilward
Dan Milward is a New Zealand based developer and entrepreneur working with Instinct, makers of (amongst other things) the WP e-Commerce Plugin and the WP Wiki Plugin.

Fresh Pacific Media - Anthony ColeAnthony Cole – Fresh Pacific Media on Twitter @anthonycole
Anthony Cole is a freelance web developer and student based in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has been involved with the Wordpress community for several years, organising several meet-ups in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Last year he helped organise Wordcamp Australia.

WordPress in New Zealand

For such a small country New Zealand has had quite an impact on the greater WordPress scene – from Plugin Development, to WordPress Theme creation tools and of course WordPress powers many of New Zealands best websites. Don’t believe us? Here are just a few:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/blogs/
http://www.soulpurpose.co.nz/
http://www.salient.co.nz/
http://blog.nzx.com
http://topptwins.com/

Thanks to all of you who wrote in to tell us about your sites we’ve listed a few more Wordpress based NZ websites over here especially in the comments on that post.

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