Let me take you through our journey in 2011:

New Camp for rtCampers:

This year we have added another camp as our second office to accommodate the increasing number of employees. Now rtCamp is runs 2 offices in 2 shifts, 16 hours a day.

rtCamp-home

rtMoto Theme Released:

Year 2011 was marked a blasting beginning with releasing our open source theme rtMoto (Know more). It was the first open-source theme contribution from rtCamp to WordPress open source community. It was a special moment as it gave confidence to the team to go for another mighty project  - a complete WordPress Theme Framework.

rtPanel Launched:

rtPanel - WordPress Theme Framework

It was the proudest moment for all rtCampers when project ‘rtPanel’  was released as open source Theme Framework for WordPress geeks in September, 2011. rtPanel is first WordPress theme framework, which offers free technical support.

Being a developer centric framework it has a standard well commented code, amazing hooks and filters and dedicated support teams. rtPanel has made the WordPress theme development experience more enriched.

The fruits are coming up; more than 3000 downloads are happened so far.

rtSocial Plugin release:

We launched a breakthrough plugin for Social sharing called rtSocial. The uniqueness of the plugin is that it uses non-blocking JavasScript to load the social-media sharing counts in markup. It uses only one image, CSS sprite, hence eliminating the need to load multiple images from multiple service providers.

In short its a Simple, Smarter and Swifter – Social sharing plugin of year 2011.

Best themes designed:

We have designed some amazing themes for our clients. Please read this to explore.

What else:

The true growth lies in building a strong base and we have done a lot of home work in year 2011 to make our processes more refined so that we can stand out in year 2012. Journey started in year 2009 with a simple vision to ‘Empower web with WordPress’ is continued with same dedication and in right direction. Now we have even bigger plans for year 2012 and we are on the move.

A roundup of year 2011 is a post from rtCamp

We have designed and developed over 350+ themes in year 2011. With more than 3 years of experience and super creative design team, we always hit the nails to meet clients design requirement. The matured internal processes and evolved rtPanel (our opensource theme framework) have increased the efficiency. The dedication to work and the intellectual creative insight of our designers always exceeded the clients’ expectations.

Following are the best 10 themes we designed/developed in year 2011 for our clients:

 #10. Campoli Defense

The Law Office of Lauren Campoli is a criminal defense law practice focused on results. Its a personal branding site of Lauren, where she offers the consultation/advocacy on complex criminal charges.

Lauren Campoli

#9. All Paddles

All paddles is a water sports blog managed by Stuart. The blog gives insights on various paddling water sports like Kayaks, Canoe, Standup paddles etc. The blog has been given trendy looks to suit with water sports blog.

All Paddles

#8. Shannon Clark

Shannon Clark is renowned fitness trainer. She also writes about fitness articles and blogs. Shannon wanted her blog to be feminine in looks and should enhance her personal branding. The website design reflects her expectations very well making her very happy with our work.

Shannon Clark

#7. TriGuy Coaching

TriGuyCoaching is a multi-sport coaching website. The coaching is about applying specific principles to your life through multisport and endurance training.

TryGuy coaching

#6. Tongue Ticklers

ToungeTicklers is a food blog authored by Ms. Harini. Being a food recipe blog, enough visibility is being given to recipes.

Tummy Treats

#5. Intra Pac

Intrapac is a high quality residential land development company. Intrapac has built up a track record over 25 years of creating high quality land developments, and is now considered to be one of Australia’s most successful private developers of residential land.

IntraPac

#4. Daily Fruitwine

DailyFruitwine is a wine blog which is managed and owned by Mr. Dominic Rivard. Mr. Dominic is a reknown commercial wine maker. His blog gives a insight of fruits wine making methods. The simple yet elegant logo and website design just conveys the right message.

dailyfruitwine

#3. 60 in 60

60 jobs in 60 days is a simple yet awesome design. The website showcase the Mr. Michael’s experience of exploring 60 jobs in 60 days. It gives a good insight of different occupations.

60days

#2. ACG – Expeditionary Consultants

ACG is a group of privately owned companies, based in the United Kingdom. This corporate governance gives consultancies in areas like strategic planning, corporate liaison, military liaison and contracting, political liaison and administration etc. As per the business model and target segment, the website design has been created as sober yet targeting premium segment

ACG Consultants

#1. Network FP

Network FP is India’s first knowledge sharing and professional networking platform for people who are passionate about financial planning and want to make an impact in this noble profession. The website looks elegant considering the professional nature of visitors.

networkfp

To explore more themes designed/developed by us, please explore our theme portfolio

Top 10 themes designed by rtCamp in 2011 is a post from rtCamp

They are located in nearby buildings separated by small distance. But this small distance between the two buildings covers victorious and memorable journey for more than 35 rtCampers! It is reminder of their hard-work and dedication with which they served our clients & WordPress community. Without a doubt, we will continue down this path in future…

With second office, rtFamily will soon cross a headcount of 50 members.

In the future, we will add third, fourth and more offices to rtCampus. But nothing can beat the joy of reaching this milestone of ‘second’ office. This ‘second’ number is special. The journey from ‘one’ to ‘two’ has been a long one (almost 2 years) with many ups and downs, but I guess that is what makes this ‘second office’ special!

You can find this occasion captured in pictures at our official Facebook page here. There is also a small 1o-second video available here.

On behalf of team rtCamp, I thank all our clients, friends and well-wishers for their support.

p.s. we are hiring (as always )

rtCamp’s Second Office is a post from rtCamp

Congrats to Manish and Pradeep !

Manish contributed with the designing and CSS part of the theme and the PHP programming was handled by Pradeep.

rtMoto is compatible with WordPress 3.0 and later versions.

Here is a preview of rtMoto.

Screenshot:

Key Features:

• Custom Menu
• Post Thumbnails
• Microformats
• Threaded Comments
• One Sidebar on Right
• Sticky Post

Link: Theme Info & Download

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rtCamp’s theme rtMoto now available in the WordPress Theme Directory is a post from rtCamp

Some of rtCamp’s major milestones in 2010 have been summarized below.

#1 Winners of the Kaltura Contest

Our developer Kapil Gonge’s hard-work paid off when his work on the BuddyPress-Kaltura Plugin made rtCamp the winners of the Kaltura Frenzy Challenge.

Link: rtCamp - Winners of Kaltura Contest

#2 Theme Development

This year we designed and developed various WordPress themes for our clients. Following are the top 10 themes designed and developed by us in the year 2010.

Link: Top 10 Themes of 2010 by rtCamp

#3 Plugin Development

rtCamp does extensive work on WordPress Plugins. This year the following plugins were developed by the rtCamp team.

Link: Plugin Development in 2010

#4 Four Portals and 1 Blog Launched

This year 4 new portals and 1 blog were launched by us. More details in the post below.

Link: 4 Portals and 1 Blog in 2010

Here’s wishing all our readers, well wishers and admirers a very Happy New Year

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[Roundup] 2010 – The Year of rtCamp is a post from rtCamp

For all such bloggers and site-owners we have launched a new service – WpNginx.

About WpNginx

WpNginx is our way of running WordPress setup on Nginx + PHP-FPM + APC + object/mysql caching  + W3 Total Cache + CDN!

You might be familiar with some names above. Together, if configured properly, above stuff turns a small $20/month unmanaged VPS to a more powerful and faster $100/month server provided by some famous web-hosting companies!

5 of our clients already enjoying benefits of our new service. (they signed up during beta only)

You can read more about our new service here. You can also go through FAQs posted here.

If you have any questions or suggestions for us, feel free to use contact form below.

Link – WpNginx

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Introducing WpNginx – Our new service for high-traffic WordPress sites! is a post from rtCamp

After more than 6 months hard-work (in chunks, of-course), rtCampers together managed to launch rtCamp’s new portal!

We have finished most of work sometime before, but as we have used many WordPress 3.0 feature is this new theme/portal, we had to wait till final & stable WordPress 3.0 gets released.

Till date, needless to say, this is our best work, in terms of creativity and technologies used. jQuery & CSS3 is used extensively but special care has been taken to make sure that site works well enough on pathetic browsers like IE7.

The beauty of this entire new look is that the almost entire site works even if javascript is disabled. And nothing looks ugly even if you open this site in a browser with no support for CSS3.

Above all, this new site scores Grade-A for more than 90% pages in Y-Slow tests. And for rest it scores Grade-B.

Credits…

As a matter of the fact, every rtCamper contributed in someway to the new portal but there are some people whose names deserve special mention here.

The whole project could not have been complete with our graphic designer Umesh Katkar. His amazing photoshop skills helped us go through many alternative ideas and rough drafts.

Thanks to rtCampers and specially to our COO Ashish Singh, we got too many creative ideas for design of our new online home.

Then comes our senior developer and founding member Satosh Kamble. If you like flying clouds on our homepage or most of javascript in site, they are all done by Santosh.

If you are viewing this site in IE7 or Opera or any not-so-cool browser, they credit goes to Saorabh Kumar.

We have used many wordpress 3.0 features in this theme. I, Rahul Bansal, will keep credit for adding custom post-type support which we are using to manage our portfolio with some help from Pragati Sureka, our senior developer who is famous for staying up to date with WordPress world.

Finally, special thank to Nitun Lanjewar for spending time in adding content to our portfolio and Parshawa Nemi Jain for proof-reading as well as cleaning up my mistakes in entire web-sites content. It must have been frustrating for poor Nemi to read and correct my english on so many pages!

You can see all rtCampers here!

No donut for IE6 users….

Our team-mate Saorabh who took care of cross-bowser compatibility for IE7, opera and others was interested in taking some efforts to make this portal work in IE6 also. But since long time, we wanted to stop providing support for IE6.

As this is not a client project, we thought this is right time to join the revolution!

Leaving IE6 behind so feels good that we will definitely stop supporting IE6 for all our internal projects and we will try our best to pursue our friends, clients & associates to do the same.

Things to do…

Adding all great work we did over a year will take some time. So keep watching our portfolio here.

There may be some minor tweaks and a bug or two that we will find and fix over the time.

Then there are ongoing task of keeping our official blog updated and optimizing this site for search engine (SEO). We don’t care much about SEO in general but this new portal has very less text so doing some SEO will be good idea.

Finally…

Thank you world for giving us plenty of opportunities to server you.

We hope you like this work and will spend time to give your honest feedback. Comment form is awaiting you below!

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rtCamp Reincarnated! is a post from rtCamp

Due to growing popularity of this component, we are launching this as a dedicated service.

Latest version of BuddyPress Media Component is compatible with BuddyPress version 1.2.x and WordPress MU version 2.9.1 or higher.

You can read complete release post here!

Links: BuddyPress Media Component | Release Post

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MediaBp.com – Our New Portal for BuddyPress Media Component is a post from rtCamp

Apart from 100% search-engine friendly migration, we will be giving premium services like migrating images from Blogger.com to your WordPress server.

Check out portal itself for more details!

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3. ILoveThisDomain.com – rtCamp is in domain business now!

BloggerToWp – New Portal To Help Bloggers Get Going With WordPress is a post from rtCamp

We wanted to launch this domain sometime in May-June 2010, but we received an email from our service provider mentioning that they are running a promo till March 31st, during which many gTLD’s and cTLD’s will be available at discounted price.

We thought its good to pass-on this to our readers so we launched this portal in hush-rush. You can get discounted pricing like:

1. .COM for $5.99
2. .IN, CO.IN, .ORG.IN for $3.99
3. .INFO for $6.99

You can check complete pricing table here.

In near feature, we will be relaunching it with added features like payments via netbanking (specially for Indian customers), better user interface, etc. Accounts created by you will be moved to relaunched portal automatically.

Link: I Love This Domain

ILoveThisDomain.com – rtCamp is in domain business now! is a post from rtCamp