About WPBarista
WPBarista started to help blogging friends with WordPress 16 years ago.
Y’all are the heart of what we do.
Our History
Cathy Mitchell (was Tibbles) founded WPBarista with Heather Jacobson from Desperately Seeking Sanity in 2008. Ever since then our focus has been squarely to serve the influencer community (used to be called Blogging).
We work alongside your expertise – providing the technical and WordPress help as needed.
All our tactics, best practices and advice are from the current thought leaders in the influencer and digital marketing sphere; sprinkled with a good dose of realism for an influencer’s budget.
It’s clear Cathy is ridiculously famous – proven by this pic with Matt Mullenweg) at the first “WordCamp Dev” in Vancouver, BC.
Our Team
Every member of our team is whole heartedly available to make your job easier in any way we can.
Cathy Mitchell
the Strategist and Project Manager. She’s consulted with Stanford Med University, Jack Frost Designs, Beth Moore, Lia Griffith and 1000’s of others.
Dianne Espejo
Dianne Espejo lives in New Jersey with her two boys and husband who is also in IT. They travel and explore the lovely east coast every chance they get.
Cathy Mitchell
Dianne Espejo
Kat Nervez
Is our extremely talented and educated graphic designer. She is moving to my side of the world this summer and we can’t wait to sit down together!
Dannah Abat
Dannah has been working with us for several years and helps out with everything from writing to developing. And she has the cutest office ever!
Kat Nervez
Dannah Abat
Our Clients
What Our Clients Are Saying
THANK YOU!!!
~Suzy Mighell, Emptynestblessed.com
Giving Back
By purchasing through us, your dollars are part of some important charitable and environmental efforts:
Environment & Emissions
In reality computers are a small part of the overall power usage in North America. However, using sustainable energy sources (wind and hydro) get us a step closer. Our office uses entirely recycled products where possible.
Natural Disasters
When there are crisis that we can contribute to, we do so through the Red Cross and Donations in Kind.
Children & Women
We love sponsoring children in Africa (where Cathy spent several years). We do so through World Vision Canada, Rehema House, and Kiva Microloans.
Economic Stability
We recognize our fortune and support the economic efforts of women entrepreneurs in third world countries through Kiva.
Pro Bono Work
We donate two websites, per year, to registered charities. Feel free to contact Cathy to nominate a worthy charity.
Mental Health
Cathy has spoken openly about her Mental Health issues and her recovery. And we care deeply that people everywhere have access to resources they need to recover from mental health issues. We donate through Big Orange Heart to these initiatives.
WordCamp Sponsorship
Sponsorship of WCYVR 2023 was part giving part, and part marketing. We volunteer and manage the Support Desk at WordCamp to help new WP users with questions!
And of course the beautiful children that we sponsor, and funds donated to AIDs support in developing countries through Compassion International.
BIG ORANGE HEART sponsor – providing support and assistance to remote workers around the world
Canadian Red Cross – providing covid support and resources to hospitals
Around this time we had the honour of giving back in-kind to:
- Meadow Rose Society – offering diapers and formula to moms in need
- Trevoices.org – adults against transitioning children
We ran a big fund raising campaign for victims of Hurricane Harvey.
Also supporting local homeless shelters through Salvation Army, and Rehema House – rescuing young girls in Kenya, providing healthcare during their pregnancies and job skills training.
This year we also had the honour to work on a couple websites pro bono:
- Refugees in Chilliwack – in support of the Syrian refugee crisis
- EFry Society – housing and protection for families fleeing domestic violence
From 2007 and onwards we’ve regularly given back to
- Entrepreneurs in Developing countries through Micro-loans
- Children in Developing Countries through World Vision Canada, and Compassion International
- Canadian Red Cross, when emergent situations arise.
We did not track the donations prior to 2014.
Legal Stuff Here
We have paraphrased some legal’eze in these documents to make it understandable. And in some documents it has to stay as-is to make sure we’re all acting nicely.
Terms of Service
*Everything on this site is USD.
WPBarista.com provides its services to you subject to the following Terms of Service, which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you.
Responsibility and Accuracy of Information
Our goal is to provide usable advice and expert services. Our information is by nature time sensitive, and subject to change often.
WPBarista.com does not accept liability for errors, loss, injury or inconvenience resulting from the use of the information in this guide. No warranty, express or implied, is given that the information provided on this website is error-free.
Links
Links provided from this website to independent third party websites are done so in good faith to offer an additional value to users. WPBarista.com is not responsible for any content held within any such websites, or for any links contained in them. The inclusion of external links does not signify any endorsement by WPBarista.com.
Privacy Policy and Security
In order to protect privacy and personal information, WPBarista.com agrees that it will not loan, rent or sell to any third parties any personal details that have been passed on to us without explicit prior permission (except when we believe that the law requires it, to respond to an emergency or in the event of a sale, merger or similar transaction). This website contains links to other websites. WPBarista.com is not responsible for privacy policies of such websites.
WPBarista.com collects no user information from the website except what is required for system administration, market demographics for internal use only and other enhancement of the website. By signing up as a member, you agree to the use of your submitted information to provide you with the best service and advice possible. Although we use reasonable efforts to maintain the privacy of your personally identifiable data and information, due to technological limitations, and the risk of unlawful interceptions and accessing of transmissions and/or data, we cannot completely assure you, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable data and information, and any other electronically communicated information, will be absolutely confidential. Use of the WPBarista.com website constitutes the users agreement to the terms of our privacy policy. Any changes to this policy will be posted to this page and users may be contacted as well (although WPBarista.com is under no obligation to do so). Continued use of this website constitutes the users agreement to any such changes.
Loss of Use Insurance
We recommend consulting a commercial insurance agent to discuss loss of use of your website, and the business interruption it would cause.
Terms and Conditions
WPBarista.com readers also agree to the following Terms and Conditions:
YOUR USE OF ANY WPBarista.com SERVICE OR PRODUCT IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK WHICH ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. WPBarista.com MAKES NO WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WITH RESPECT TO ITS WEBSITE AND ANY SERVICES OR PRODUCTS, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES FOR MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WPBarista.com’S SOLE OBLIGATION AND LIABILITY FOR ANY FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS SHALL BE, AT WPBarista.com’S OPTION, TO REFUND TO CUSTOMER THE AMOUNT PAID BY CUSTOMER THEREFORE. IN NO EVENT SHALL WPBarista.com’S LIABILITY RELATED TO THIS WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR PRODUCTS EXCEED THE PURCHASE PRICE ACTUALLY PAID. IN NO EVENT SHALL WPBarista.com BE LIABLE TO THE CUSTOMER OR TO ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, OR LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED OR TO BE PROVIDED BY WPBarista.com, OR THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SAME, EVEN IF WPBarista.com HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold WPBarista.com and its affiliates, officers, agents, employees, partners and licensors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your acts or omissions relating to the services and products provided or offered by WPBarista.com. You agree that there shall be no third-party beneficiaries to these Terms of Service. These Terms of Service constitutes the entire agreement between you and WPBarista.com and governs your use of all services and products provided or offered by WPBarista.com, superseding any prior agreements between you and WPBarista.com with respect thereto. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other WPBarista.com, affiliate or third party property services or products. These Terms of Service and the relationship between you and WPBarista.com shall be governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and WPBarista.com agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the province of British Columbia, Canada. The failure of WPBarista.com to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Service is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of these Terms of Service remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of any WPBarista.com service or product or these Terms of Service must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
In short
You are hiring us (WordPress Barista) located in Chilliwack, BC to manage the design, development and deployment of the website for the estimated total price of $—— as outlined in Quote xxxxx.
As our customer, you have the power and ability to enter into this contract on behalf of your company or organization. You agree to provide us with everything that we need to complete the project including text, images and other information as and when we need it, and in the format that we ask for. You agree to review our work, provide feedback and sign-off approval in a timely manner.
We have the experience and ability to perform the services you need from us and we will carry them out in a professional and timely manner. Along the way we will endeavor to meet all the deadlines set but we can’t be responsible for a missed launch date or a deadline if you have been late in supplying materials or have not approved or signed off our work on-time at any stage.
We will also maintain the confidentiality of any information that you give us.
Design
The design limitations and number of revisions are stated in the estimate. This contract does not include any further design modifications beyond what is stated. If you’re not happy with the template at this stage, you will pay us in full for all of the work that we have produced until that point and you may either cancel this contract or continue to commission us to make further design revisions at the rate set out in our original estimate. ($75/hr)
CSS layout & templates
If the project includes HTML markup and CSS templates, we will develop these using valid HTML 5 markup and CSS 3 for styling. We will test all our markup and CSS in current versions of all major browsers including those made by Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla and Opera.
We will not test these templates in old or abandoned browsers, for example Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and below for Windows or Mac, previous versions of Apple’s Safari, Mozilla Firefox or Opera unless otherwise specified.
Text content
We’re not responsible for writing or inputting any text copy unless we specified it in the attached estimate. We’ll be happy to help though, and in addition to the estimate we will charge you at $60 per hour for copy writing or content input.
Photographs
You will supply us photographs either in digital or printed format. If you choose to buy stock photographs we can suggest vendors of stock photography. Any time we spend searching for appropriate photographs will be charged at $60 per hour, unless noted in the attached quote.
Changes and revisions
We believe that fixed-price contracts are rarely beneficial to you, as they often limit you to your first idea about how something should look, or how it might work. We don’t want to limit either your options or your opportunities to change your mind.
The estimate/quotation attached are based on the number of hours that we estimate we’ll need to accomplish everything that you have told us you want to achieve. If you do want to change your mind, add extra pages, functionality or services, that won’t be a problem. You will be charged the hourly rate set out in the estimate we gave you. Please provide all additions to the quote in writing so we can keep track of changes.
Installation & Technical support
You may already have professional web site hosting in which case we will install your website for you. The functionality, backups, and reporting of your website are your responsibility unless outlined in the attached quote.
We can’t guarantee that the functions contained in any web page templates or in a completed web site will always be error-free and so we can’t be liable to you or any third party for damages, including lost profits, lost savings or other incidental, consequential or special damages arising out of the operation of or inability to operate this web site and any other web pages, even if you have advised us of the possibilities of such damages.
Disclaimer
If any provision of this agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed sever-able from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Copyrights
You guarantee to us that any elements of text, graphics, photos, designs, trademarks, or other artwork that you provide us for inclusion in the web site are either owned by yourselves, or that you have permission to use them.
When we receive your final payment, copyright is automatically assigned as follows:
You own the graphics and other visual elements that we create for you for this project. We will give you a copy of all files and you should store them really safely as we are not required to keep them or provide any native source files that we used in making them.
You also own the layout, CSS, text content, photographs and other data you provided, unless someone else owns them.
WordPress releases the software and all derivative works to you under the GNU General Public License. By necessity, this means that the theme and functionality(custom plugins) are also provided under the GNU GPL.
We also reserve the right to display and link to your completed project as part of our portfolio and to write about the project on web sites, in magazine articles and in books about web development.
Payments
You agree to the following payment schedule.
* 50% to commence design and development
* 50% upon delivery of completed site
This contract is a legal document under exclusive jurisdiction of British Columbia, Canada. You cannot transfer this contract to anyone else without our permission. This contract stays in place and need not be renewed.
Last Updated: Jan 9, 2023
Section 1: Who we are
Our website address is: https://wpbarista.com. Privacy information is controlled by Cathy Mitchell.
Section 2: What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact & Newsletter forms
To assist with sending you requested information, we use forms to collect and store your email address. The creator of the form plugin (fluent forms) never has access to this information.
We also use Mailerlite temporarily (beginning of 2023). Their use of your data is outlined here. You may opt out of the collection of your data by unsubscribing (we will remove your data) and contacting them using the instructions on their privacy page.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. youtube, pinterest, wordpress.org, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that we collect is anonymized and sent to Google Analytics for analysis.
Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”).
Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie. Learn more
In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.
See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data.
Section 3: Who we share your data with
Service Providers and others who help with our business operations and assist in the delivery of our products and services including, but not limited to, application development, site hosting, maintenance, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, payment processing, marketing, analytics, and enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;
Other users of the site to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or make comments through the Services;
Persons or entities with whom you consent to have your Personal Data shared;
Third parties in order to prevent damage to our property (tangible and intangible), for safety reasons, or to collect amounts owed to us;
Merchants and payment processors; and
Third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence to: comply with legal process; respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; enforce our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements; protect our operations; protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party.
Section 4: How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Google Analytics data is retained indefinitely. Contact forms and comments cookies are held for one year.
Section 5: What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.
This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Section 6: Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Third parties have access to your data as noted within this agreement.
Section 7: Additional information
We will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.
USERS UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE
Our Services are not directed to and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with Personal Data, we will take steps to remove such data. If you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data without your consent, please contact us at [email protected]. By using the Services, you are representing to us that you are not under the age of 13.
Protection of Personal Data
We use reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the nature of the Personal Data and risks involved in processing that information.
Notice and Choice
i. The types of Personal Data we collect and why we collect it, are described in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy.
ii. See section 5 to remove your data from this site.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
WPBarista may change this Privacy Policy at any time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy is indicated by the “Last Updated” date at the top of the Privacy Policy. All changes are effective immediately upon posting. Please review this Privacy Policy frequently to stay updated on changes that may affect you. Your continued use of this website signifies your continuing consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
Contact information
Cathy Mitchell
45355 Creekside Drive
Chilliwack BC Canada V2P 7S4
604-703-8608
Information about our use of cookies
This website https://wpbarista.com uses cookies to help us provide our users with a good experience when they browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on user’s browser or their computer’s hard drive if they agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to user’s computer’s hard drive.
Types of cookies and how we use them
We perform cookie scans on our website on a regular basis and maintain our cookie list updated. We classify cookies in four categories:
- Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable website visitors to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
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Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
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- Preferences cookies. These are used to recognize users when they return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for them and remember their preferences (for example, their choice of language or region).
- Marketing cookies. These cookies record users’ visits to our website, the pages they have visited and the links they have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to our website visitors interests.
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Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
Depending on user’s location, they will be able to opt-out from each cookie category (except necessary cookies) by clicking on the “set custom permission” in the cookie banner of our website.
