HISTORY
LightSpeed’s journey since 2003
Throughout our history, we’ve had ours eyes on innovation, we continuously improve the solutions and services we provide to our clients.
A few of our happy clients:
LightSpeed Development History
Our journey: tracing LightSpeed’s growth and innovation through the years.
2003
Founded LightSpeed
LightSpeed opened its doors as a network support specialist and computer hardware sales business.
Founded in 2003 by Ashley Shaw, LightSpeed WordPress Development has progressed from a start as a WordPress website solutions company that catered to a spread of client requirements (with a focus on the tourism sector) on to becoming a leading WP specialist development company.
2007
WordPress Agency
Pivoted to a WordPress Design & Development Agency.
2009
Launched Hosting Services
We started providing hosting services.
2015
Launched Woo Services
Started working with WooCommerce.
2019
Became WooExpert
We became WooExperts and Mailchimp experts.
In 2020, the company now features valuable credentials gained via endorsements and associations with both the focal WordPress community and organisation. These have been earned over many years through engagement and participation in WordCamp and WP MeetUp conferences across the globe. At this time, the company now stands tall in its field as a result of the significant gains made since its founding, and is now a proud member of the elite few companies in the world that are both WooExperts and Mailchimp Experts. Our journey continues…
Verified Experts on Invite-Only Professional Networks
We’re proud members of an elite global set of Partners that share advances in development which provide us with the ability to super-boost your website.
Our certifications and verifications for a range of cutting-edge technologies rank us amongst the world’s leading WordPress, WooCommerce and Mailchimp experts – and it’s through our Partner network that we’re able to pass on the benefit of best practices to you, and your online business.
Among our achievements, we’re proud to list the following leading technologies in our field:
WooCommerce Expert
Listed on WooExperts directory
MailChimp Partner
Listed on Mailchimp Experts directory
Open Source Products
We are committed to keeping our products Open Source.
Our promise to you is to deliver secure and reliable development – and we keep our promise through our commitment open source, with all of our products released and published under the GNU Public License v.3 (and you can view all of our published products over on Github). In line with our committed approach to keeping our LSX theme and extensions free Open Source, we recently released all our extensions and core software on wp.org.
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Open Source Tools
Our team are sponsored the world’s leading development tools:
BrowserStack
Listed on WooExperts directory
GitHub Team
Listed on Mailchimp Experts directory
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