Author: Abhishek Deshpande

Earlier WordPress was known as a Blogging platform, nowadays as a Content management system. But many developers are using WordPress as a powerful and versatile tool for rapid proof-of-concept web app development.

At WordCamp Nagpur, Amit will be speaking on Alternative Development Techniques on WordPress.

His talk will cover techniques on how we can create a WordPress based website and web applications like Truecaller using various development techniques with minimal efforts when running on strict deadlines.

Amit Singh is a founder and CEO of WPoets Technology. He started working with WordPress since 2007 and contributed his first WordPress plugin to WordPress.org repository in 2008. He has helped organise PHPCamp, WordCamp, Joomla Day and Drupal camp in Pune.

WordPress out of the box is quite easy to use and setup but if you want it to perform like a pro there’s a lot that you can squeeze out of the software and structure your website for success.

In this session, Parth will talk about content structure with respect to strategy. Website Optimisation and other best practices.

Parth is Drupal Guy, who loves hanging around Open Source Communities. Is a part-time entrepreneur, tech enthusiast. He works as Community Manager at Axelerant. He was a hobby Film Maker, hobby #Photographer & a Pilot.

After e-commerce and social media, “Internet of things” is the next big thing and WordPress is ready to embrace it.

Vikram will give us an overview of how he used WordPress as a backend for applications based on Internet of Things. This talk will cover overall workflow, problems faced, and how it can be done right.

Vikram is in love with WordPress for almost 6 years. He helps businesses to focus on and effectively utilise IT as supporting structure to core business deliverables, by crafting effective web presence, implementing business solutions, moving businesses to cloud as well as managing complex eCommerce requirements.

Vikram will be speaking on Using WordPress for IoT at WordCamp Nagpur!

Kumar is a 13 years old Developer, Blogger, Youtuber from Nashik, India. He founded IQubex.com in 2016 when he was just 12. Currently, in his 8th grade, he is already familiar with HTML5 / CSS3 and PHP. He wishes to explore everything relating to Website and App Development.

He will be speaking at WordCamp Nagpur on the topic – How cool is WordPress in School Syllabus.

In this talk, he is going to talk on How Parents/Teachers can help their Kids to learn WordPress. He’ll be telling about the curiosity, ability in a Kid that elders do not have. Plus a kid always works as a hobby and do not worry about any rewards.

Attend this to experience the future of WordPress first hand!

He is the youngest ever speaker at a WordCamp, he started blogging and building websites at the age of ten! He now has an active website IQubex, where he talks about blogging, technology and code.

There is no replacement to the warmth and feel of a human voice. No wonder, the popularity of Broadcast Radio stations, using FM or even traditional AM is still popular. The effort and cost to set up your own “Radio station” or to Broadcast your own voice all over the world are much easier today! This does not need you to set up transmission towers and has expensive equipment!!

WordPress and the Internet give us the power of Audio blogging or Podcasts. Whatmore you can start one within a few minutes, and at zero cost. You can then upgrade it gradually as you grow to a website as widely followed as any radio station. Through the talk / quick workshop, Nagesh will trace through how you can begin setting up your own Audio blog using WordPress.com, and then upscale it towards a self-hosted Website if needed.

The talk aims at encouraging aspiring budding Radio Jockeys, Audio artists claim their very own space and audience through a simple step-by-step method.

Nagesh is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, Nagesh started his WordPress journey as a hobbyist and freelancer, by building and tinkering with WordPress websites between 2008 and 2016.

The interesting part about his story is that, despite his diverse background, Nagesh’s WordPress journey kickstarted from a unique vertical: by setting up and running a community website that he built, without having any prior knowledge of programming. – RadioIdli.net. He started it on Blogger, and, migrated it to self-hosted WordPress, sometime in 2009. This journey introduced him to a career in digital marketing, helped him learn to create beautiful websites, and eventually led him to Automattic!

The composer is an application-level package manager for the PHP programming language that provides a standard format for managing dependencies of PHP software and required libraries.

In this talk, Rahul will explain the advantages of using Composer dependency manager to manage complete WordPress projects, including themes, plugins and WordPress core itself. This method makes developing, maintaining & scaling WordPress sites in a long run easy.

Rahul is the founder and CEO of rtCamp – the only WordPress.com VIP Partner from Asia. His WordPress journey began in 2007 when he was looking for ways to customise his blog. Later on, he moved from professional blogging, freelancing to starting rtCamp in 2009.

Mrunmaiy Abroal is a communications professional and has been building technology brands for over 13 years. Most recently she was working as the Director of Communications for South Asia at Opera Software.

Living with a cervical spinal cord injury since 2011, she has not let disability curb her enthusiasm for travelling and embarking on new journeys. Far from being a disadvantage, her spinal cord injury has increased her determination to succeed and persevere when obstacles grace the path. She also volunteers with The Spinal Foundation to spread awareness about rebuilding life after a SCI.

She will be speaking at WordCamp Nagpur on the topic – How I started as hobby blogger.

Mrunmaiy writes about living with a spinal cord injury and travelling with a disability on her blog mrunmaiy.com.

Mrunmaiy’s talk will cover:

• Her personal journey of starting to blog and learnings along the way
• The importance of keeping your blog’s core content in sync with the topic you are passionate about.
• Building your profile as an influencer in your chosen community/ domain.

After this talk, you can start as a hobby blogger too!