Comments on: WordPress in South Africa

By: nomad-one

nomad-one — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:46:26 +0000

WordPress is taking off big time in South Africa and the players involved are increaing in number. We organise a regular wordpress meetup in Cape Town and there’s a wordcamp being planned for Johannesburg soon as well. SA loves wordpress … did someone say there are other blogging platforms out there???

By: Wogan May

Wogan May — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:11:20 +0000

WordPress has probably become the most popular blogging engine in South Africa.

http://www.blat.co.za
http://www.iblog.co.za

Those are just two sites running WordPress installs. There are many more private bloggers that run WordPress (I’m one of them).

It’s just, simply, the best. Period.

~ Wogan

By: Olu

Olu — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:19:10 +0000

Most African blogs not hosted by blogger, are on wordpress –
just like this: http://www.africanloft.com/

By: James

James — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:01:22 +0000

I know WordPress is very popular in SA, and not just for blogging.

I’ve used it as a CMS for a couple of sites, and it works like a charm. The thing I like most about it is how easy it is to customise.

Of course, after having used it for over 2 years already, I guess it’s easy because of familiarity…

By: Chris M

Chris M — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:03:48 +0000

Lovely to see some International recognition. South Africa has a big handful of bloggers, all running blogs on WordPress and it’s growing exponentially!

By: The Sports Blog

The Sports Blog — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:32:04 +0000

YEBO! WordPress is irresistible and we South Africans just know what is good! 🙂

By: Richard Catto

Richard Catto — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:39:59 +0000

WordPress is enormously popular in South Africa, Matt.

Thanks for mentioning our country in your blog! 😀

The South African Blogosphere is very active. You can find SA blogs on these two aggregators:

http://amatomu.com
http://afrigator.com

I’m a huge fan of WordPress and I have successfully converted two of my blogging friends from blogspot to WordPress just this last year.

Both of them found converting to WP extremely easy and thoroughly satisfying.

Their blogs are:
http://insidecandy.co.za
http://ifthesewallscouldtalk.co.za

By: Kabatology

Kabatology — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:31:17 +0000

It is no surprise that WordPress is being used even in SA and not only
– if big American-budget-blogs rely on WordPress why not third world countries; it is free and reliable.

By: Seagyn Davis

Seagyn Davis — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:23:27 +0000

All my personal sites run on WordPress and hopefully soon I will be developing my own themes for people to use.

In fact most of the blogs I know use WordPress.

A thanks is in order 🙂

By: AmisTech

AmisTech — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:17:56 +0000

Even our little italian independent media network – http://amisnet.org – is powered by WordPress MU, after 5 long years with a custom CMS; we are really proud of it! 🙂

Our install have a notable amount of custom code and plugins, and we are willing to make public some of them soon, because if we can use a nice piece of software like MU, we feel is a good thing share something back to the community.

By: Pierre Lourens

Pierre Lourens — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:27:42 +0000

Paul: Congrats on converting to WordPress. I am originally from South Africa and still have family there, and the technological shift that is occuring is monumental. You are making part of that happne :).

By: John

John — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:03:20 +0000

Codezed - A Zambian technology site also uses Wordpress.

By: Pony

Pony — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:47:26 +0000

WordPress is actually suprisingly pretty big in South Africa, especially since South Africa is emerging as a minor player in the blog scene.

By: adii

adii — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:22:38 +0000

WordPress Matt Knows About South Africa!

I was pretty excited to see that WordPress Creator, Matt Mullenwag, recognized some WordPress-based properties from South Africa… And unlike Miss South Carolina, Matt seems to appreciate the credibility of these projects!
That’s a breath of…

By: Adii

Adii — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:52:20 +0000

Matt – Does this mean you’re up for WordCamp in South Africa!? I’ve been designing with WP for more than a year now, whilst also running SA’s third most popular blog (according to Technorati, the most popular) and it’d be insane if you could visit SA in the near future…

The South African New Media space might be relatively small, but we’re a close-knit and vibrant community… So WP would do well here… Oh come on! Just visit already! 🙂

By: Paul De Sousa

Paul De Sousa — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:22:06 +0000

Tyler, why you gotta rain on my parade?

lemme bask in this warmth while it lasts…

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The Unknown Soldier » Blog Archive » WordPress in South Africa — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:34:27 +0000

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By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:16:05 +0000

Hey Matt

Thought Leader (http://www.thoughtleader.co.za) is powered by WordPress, the single user version. The admin area has a few tweaks, but it’s I was impressed when I heard it wasn’t a WordPress MU installation.

Thought Leader is owned by an South African publisher, Mail & Guardian (http://www.mg.co.za).

By: Ted Clayton

Ted Clayton — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:00:56 +0000

Paul De Sousa is guiding the new SA WordPress MU with a very traditional, smart hand.

Check his “SEO in a nutshell”:
http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/desousa/2007/07/26/seo-in-a-nutshell/

Packed with basics I see people pretending aren’t.

… It must not take much deep-thinking, once someone shopping for a multi-user solution wanders into WordPress.com and sees it’s MU keeping order for 2 million. 😉

By: gmk

gmk — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:14:46 +0000

Its pretty wide spread in SA, SA’s biggest blog by a long way
Keo.co.za is run on wordpress as well.

By: Jeffro2pt0

Jeffro2pt0 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:43:08 +0000

Looks good and I’m glad to see Africa is stepping up to the plate with WordPress. However, someone needs to tell them that black font does not look good on a dark red background.

By: 6000

6000 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:54:30 +0000

The Times is one of SA’s only two independent newspapers. Never afraid of courting controversy or difficult subjects, never shying away or backing down – a worthy client.

6k.
http://6000.co.za