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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

Cathy and her team are upbeat, responsive and very accommodating. They know exactly what they’re doing and they do it with enthusiasm and efficiency. I highly recommend!

Sue Redmon

sueredmon.com

I wanted to thank you for your good advice about removing… I don’t know if you remember, but you suggested I leave … and remove the content. I was skeptical but followed your advice – and have made several conversions!!!
THANK YOU!!!
~Suzy Mighell, Emptynestblessed.com

Suzy Mighell

EmptyNestBlessed.com

I first worked with Cathy and her team at WP Barista over ten years ago when they migrated my tiny blog from Blogger over to WordPress. Over the years they have done a wonderful job managing everything from maintenance and security to design, and my blog has grown significantly under their care. They are responsive, creative and just plain wonderful to work with!

Kate Jackson

FramedCooks.com

Simply put, Cathy truly wants you to succeed. If a task was something we could take on ourselves, Cathy would advise us on the steps to complete it. She gives honest feedback and won’t upsell you on unnecessary functions just to make a quick buck.

Philip

Pasta.com

The new site looks fantastic and I’m so grateful for all your help! I know it was a big job migrating more than a decade of content between platforms, and you did it so seamlessly!

Courtney Browning

Courtneymbrowning.com

I love the personal customer service.

Deanna Pizitz

Wellandworthylife.com

They were great: quick to answer, solved the issue and adjusted the price(a nice surprise!).

Paula

VintageKitchenNotes.com

Cathy has put up with endless questions and never lost her sense of humor or kind timely replies! PLUS she’s doing an amazing job redesigning my site : )

Terry Cross

Puppydiva.com

Cathy and her team totally ROCK! They are quick to respond and far exceed my expectations. I can rest assured that they literally have my “back end covered.” Having WP Barista taking care of my site gives me true peace of mind.

Betsi Turner Hill

Betsisworld.com

A million thank you’s to WP Barista who was able to step-in, assess and resolve my issue in a timely, professional way – and with just the right touch of humor. Thanks!

Mary Lou Davidson

Scout Media

It’s been a great experience working with Cathy (and Allison and Dianne!) on updating my website. Almost stress-free…and any stress was my own, not caused by working with these pleasant, cheerful and thorough professionals. Highly recommended!

Deborah Folka

The staff at WP Barista consistently exceed my expectations, delivering top notch service with information and encouragement. They treat my website as if it were their own and never make me feel like anything I ask is silly or stupid. They treat me as a valued customer and even as a friend.

Suzy

Empty Nest Blessed

Cathy is incredibly knowledgeable and has been able to help me optimize my website! She’s also very personable and quick to help. I love using companies where I know my requests will be handled by a real person who cares!

Cassie Bustamante

cassiebustamante.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.

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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.