Introducing our final set of speakers, with only 6 weeks left to go until #WCMCR now’s the time to snap up your ticket

Elzette Roelofse – CSS Grid Layout – Expanding the landscape of how we do layouts with CSS

Elzette is a South African from Cape Town, that has made herself comfortable in London, UK for the last decade. In this time she discovered WordPress, started fiddling with it. The last couple of years she became fond of designing and building custom WordPress themes for small businesses and charities. She also likes hanging out with the WordPress Polyglots and has done a significant amount of translations to Afrikaans.

Besides being a keen Jetsetter, she is also trying to become a better half marathoner.

Manuela van Prooijen – How to grow by saying ”No!” – discover the power of turning down work in your WordPress business.

Manuela van Prooijen (The Netherlands) started Weblish (WordPress and online marketing training) in 2011. She organizes every three months the WordPress Meetup Utrecht.

As a certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach she advises small business owners about the possibilities of using low-budget/creative marketing strategies. And WordPress is the perfect vehicle for this. She loves oldskool loud punkrock and rock music and bagels.

Richard Carter – Case study: how we built a WordPress website for the NHS

Richard Carter is a web designer and frontend developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and author of 7 books in the web design field. He runs Peacock Carter, a web design agency established in 2006, and loves WordPress.

Ben Usher Smith – Progressive advancement

I’m a designer specialising in WordPress, illustration and branding. I run a small design shop in Edinburgh called BU-S. I love my clients even if they think I’m difficult and tell me so to my face. I’ve been helping people solve design problems on the web since 1998 on projects both BIG and small. I’m still learning from clients and colleagues everyday.

Want to see some more? Check out all our wonderful speakers on the speakers page. And don’t forget to purchase your ticket to see them give their talks!