Announcing our second set of speakers!

Just 7 weeks left to go until #WCMCR, to get you in the mood, meet our second set of four speakers.

Barbara Saul – Winning at Discovery – your scope creep defender checklist

Working with the Internet for nearly 20 years now and wrangling web design clients for at least 15, Barbara has learned many things about keeping customers happy, how to handle a customer always being right, and mostly learning from when she gets it wrong…

Tim Nash – Don’t be scared! Practical WordPress security tips

Tim is the platform lead at 34SP.com for their Managed WordPress product in addition to being the companies Developer Advocate. One day he will work out what either of those job titles means. Until he does he spends his day in a mix of Dev, security, ops and project management as well as speaking at user groups and conferences. He also helps run WordPress Leeds and writes for several publications including his own site timnash.co.uk.

Mark Wilkinson – The Fundamentals for Creating Sound Plugins

Mark is a developer and Co-founder of Highrise Digital, a specialist WordPress agency focusing on custom development that is built to last. Mark has been using WordPress since late 2005, all the way back to version 2.0. He is also an active member of the UK WordPress community attending meet-ups and WordCamps in the UK, as well as getting involved in organising such events.

CJ Andrew – How To Show Your Work to Clients: Deployment Practices and Workflow

CJ Andrew is an independent consultant/contractor, specialized in providing WooCommerce services to individuals and businesses.

With a background in IT support, change management, and web administration, he brings unique insight to each WordPress project.

In his spare time, CJ enjoys jazz music and long walks.


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!

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Announcing our Turing Sponsor – 34SP!

This year we’ve gone a bit different with our sponsorship names, and we’re naming them after people with a connection to Manchester. Our Platinum sponsorship is named after the founding-father of computer science, Enigma codebreaker and mathematical genius Alan Turing OBE, who had a connection with the city of Manchester.


34SP.com is a unique WordPress Hosting provider based in Manchester. What separates 34SP.com from other hosting companies is their unwavering commitment to customers through Exceptional Service and Support.

Founded in the year 2000, 34SP.com has been hosting WordPress accounts since the platform launched in 2003. They have developed a deep understanding of the specific needs of those using WordPress – indeed many of the team run their own sites powered by WordPress so should be able to help if you run into any difficulty. 34SP.com has long been a strong supporter and sponsor of WordPress and local WordCamps throughout Europe. They are advocates of the Open Source movement and use Open Source code and resources in their own business and web hosting operations.

If you are wondering exactly what types of WordPress sites are hosted with 34SP.com you can view a great gallery of a few of their customers’ WordPress sample sites.

In addition to WordPress hosting, 34SP.com is an accredited Nominet registrar and major UK vendor of domain names, including the recently introduced .uk domain names. Their hosting expertise covers the spectrum from shared hosting to business web hosting, to virtual and dedicated servers.

To view actual customer comments on their levels of support and service you can read comments tweeted about 34SP.com on Twitter.


Want to see some more? Check out all our wonderful sponsors on the sponsors page. We’ve still packages available for all businesses. Check out the call for sponsors page for more details.

And don’t forget to purchase your ticket to come and join us in Manchester on October 28th!