We’re very pleased to announce that Lee Blue will be a speaker at this year’s WordCamp Raleigh! Lee’s session will cover WordPress E-commerce and he will be presenting to the Power Users Track.

Lee Blue is the founder and lead developer of the Cart66 WordPress e-commerce plugin and Mijireh, the secure hosted checkout platform. After getting his degree in computer science, Lee worked for the United States government doing bio-terrorism surveillance and managing electronic medical records. In 2008, with a heightened awareness of security Lee approached WordPress e-commerce and developed one of the first e-commerce plugins, Cart66. For over 5 years he has been learning what people need for e-commerce and delivering solutions to the WordPress community.

WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Session: WordPress E-commerce
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Track: Power Users

We’d like to send out a big thank you to Views for sponsoring WordCamp Raleigh 2013.

Views plugin lets you build WordPress sites from within the admin dashboard.
With Views, you can develop custom functionality in a fraction of the time it takes to code it from scratch.

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• Views works with any theme and other plugins
• A powerful query engine lets you select what content to load
• The render engine lets you quickly design templates and display them
• Views fully supports WooCommerce, for rapid e-commerce development
• Add custom product catalogs to any site, running any theme, in minutes
• Create amazing product listings, sliders, and parametric searches
• Build fully custom e-commerce sites from within the WordPress dashboard

Visit wp-types.com for more information.

We’re excited to announce that Tom Harrigan is going to be speaking at WordCamp Raleigh 2013! Tom will be presenting to the Developers Track and his session will be on Sliders: The Good, The Bad and The Technical.

After college, Tom moved to New York City as the co-founder of Rootbuzz, a startup in the online community space. As a bootstrapped startup, he inevitably started using WordPress for client sites. After some time, Tom began using the themes and plugins from WooThemes and fell in love. In 2012 he was fortunate enough to join WooThemes and has been growing with and learning from a team of fantastic Ninjas and developers based all around the globe.

WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Session: Sliders: The Good, The Bad and The Technical
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Track: Developers

A big thank you to DreamHost, for generously offering sponsorship to WordCamp Raleigh 2013!

DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites and apps hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of Web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects, and the cloud computing service DreamCompute. Please visit DreamHost.com for more information.

We’re excited to announce that Will Haley will be speaking at WordCamp Raleigh 2013! Will’s session will be for the Developers Track and will focus on Gravity Forms.

While growing up in Gainesville, Georgia, Will always had a fascination with all things web. However, he remained a self-described “shady tree geek” while he obtained a business degree from Furman University and started a career in the banking industry. Four years later, he decided to hang up his suit and tie to pursue a career in web development by attending graduate school at North Carolina Central University where he graduated Summa Cum Lauda with both a Masters in Business Administration and Information Science.

Since graduate school, Will has collected over five years of experience with designing, developing and deploying web applications using technologies such as PHP, Javascript and SQL – along with many others.

While at Atlantic BT, Will has become one of the top WordPress Developers for the organization and has been the developer on over 50 custom WordPress sites Atlantic BT has built.

WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Session: Can’t Beat Gravity: How to extend Gravity Forms to make clients happy and your life easier
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Track: Developers

Semper Fi Web Design, a long-time supporter of WordCamp Raleigh, is taking the reigns again with planning and organizing this year’s WordCamp. We’re very excited to get our hands dirty with all things WordCamp again this year, and can’t wait to see everyone attending, or speaking at, WordCamp soon!

Semper Fi Web Design is a Custom Website Design & WordPress Development Services Company, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our mission is to help clients achieve their business goals through customized web design, development, and web marketing solutions designed to maximize return on investment.

We’re happy to announce that Bluehost will be sponsoring WordCamp Raleigh again this year.

Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.

We’re pleased to announce that Tony Zeoli will be speaking at this year’s WordCamp Raleigh. Tony’s session will cover Using WordPress to Power Music Sites and will be for the Users Track.

Nights and weekends, Tony Zeoli operates Digital Strategy Works, a WordPress consulting and development shop focused on developing WordPress powered sites for the media and entertainment, publishing, music and fashion industries. By day, Tony is Director of Product Development, Music Services for Market America, where he heads up development of an independent artist platform where artists can sell music and merchandise direct to fans. In addition to his product development and information architecture experience, Tony is an accomplished tech and deep house DJ and has been active in the music industry for over 25+ years. A former Billboard Dance Chart Reporting DJ, he lead the “innovation and advancement of dance music online” in 1995, when he launched Netmix.com, the first streaming DJ mix show site in the world. As volunteer Director of Interactive for the fledgling National Museum of Hip-Hop, Tony was responsible for architecting the start-up museum’s digital and social media strategy. Tony is also an advisor to 8tracks, the 4th largest streaming music service behind Pandora.

WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Session: Using WordPress to Power Music Sites
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Track: Users

We’re very happy to announce that StickerGiant Custom Stickers is a proud sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh 2013. They want to thank all of the volunteers and members of the Raleigh community that have made this WordCamp event possible.

StickerGiant.com custom stickers prints quality stickers and labels quickly. They have sponsored over 100 WordCamps all over the world. They have the best customer service, 24 hour turnaround, and offer free die-cutting to name a few of the perks of using StickerGiant.

WordPress is about telling stories and sharing passions, just like the StickerGiant’s Team mission, to help people share the things they are excited about.

Mention WordCamp Raleigh when ordering at StickerGiant and get a 10% friends and family discount.

StickerGiant: The Sticker company for WordPress users.