Amit will share alternative development techniques on WordPress.

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.

Parth will help you structuring WordPress for success!

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.

Vikram will share how he used WordPress with IoT

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 will share how cool WordPress can be in School Syllabus

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.

Nagesh will help Podcasters to set up their own space

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!

Rahul will help you managing WordPress site as a Composer project

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 will share how she started as hobby blogger

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!

Unit Testing your Plugins, Workshop by Manoj Khande

Unit testing is must do for every developer to make sure code is performing properly. The purpose behind the Unit test is to make sure single unit of the application should perform properly so in next phase of Unit Integration issues arose are because of Integration not because of any unit developed.Unit testing is must do for every developer to make sure code is performing properly. The purpose behind the Unit test is to make sure single unit of the application should perform properly so in next phase of Unit Integration issues arose are because of Integration not because of any unit developed.

In this workshop, Manoj will walk through a couple of simple examples to illustrate how easily a developer can make sure his code works in various scenarios.

Takeaways:

  • Setup Tools to run test
  • Know how to write the unit tests
  • Know how to setup unit tests for your plugin
  • Know how to run the tests
  • Know how to write testable code.

Prereqs & Preparation

  • Basic knowledge of plugin development will be great.
  • Previous experience with PHP Unit testing will be addon
  • Laptop installed with PHPUnit and WP-CLI will be great. if not installed then we will go through the installation.
  • Make sure you have Git Installed. we will pull some codes from Git.

About Manoj Khande
Manoj is a WordPress enthusiast with experience in designing and building themes and plugins. Currently working at Sanisoft Technologies.

He started tinkering with computers when he was a child and has not stopped since. He lives, breathes and teaches web development, security and computer science.

He loves travelling, listening to songs, partying, socialising, apart from his day to day work.

Limited 40 Seats in this Workshop! RSVP now!

https://www.meetup.com/Nagpur-WordPress-Meetup/events/240836497/

Which of these Wapuu you like? which one should be the Mascot for WCNagpur 2017?

Jai WordPress Mandali!

On #WP14 Party we were discussing what things Wapuu can represent Nagpurkars, Following Fun part came out of it. He got Nagpur’s bad habit of Baba120.

This blog post in not a feature film to start with statutory Warning! Tobacco Chewing is bad for health. Not adding Mukesh’s Video, but seriously Nagpur is not about Paan and Kharra(Tobacco).

Thanks to following entries that showed so many Good things that Nagpur is known for. Apart from Oranges and Tigers.

Here are the Wapuu designs we received in the Design contest. Do let us know which one you like by visiting the Facebook links or in Comments of this blog post.

Our First Entry came from Kaushik Baroliya, Ahmedabad. His wapuu is inspired by one of the most progressive rulers in the history of our country: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Greatest warrior – the hero of Maratha folklore, so he think that none other than him will be best suited for WordCamp Nagpur Wapu

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Second Entry Came from Aastha Vijay, Pune. Her Wapuu is enjoying the Zero Milestone – the Centre of the India.

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Third Entry came from Mukul Chaturvedi, Nagpur. He called it Postman Chapuu!
Recently Nagpur’s General Post Office Building completed 100 years. This Victorian style Post Office building is a marvellous example of British architecture. The Building is declared as National Heritage by Indian Government. Wapuu for Lovely Postman Chachu! who spends their time out of this building delivering our letters.

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4th entry is also from Mukul Chaturvedi, Here’s the happy little wapuu representing people of Nagpur in Monsoon season! Wishing you Happy Camping in the first monsoon WordCamp of India.

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5th Entry came from Premanshu Manghirmalani, Kolhapur. This wapuu is Firefighter trying to climb Zero Milestone Pillar. Nagpur Holds the crown of First Fire and Safety Engineering College in India. This wapuu represents those brave people.

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Tell us which one should be the Mascot for WCNagpur 2017?

Setup WordPress on VPS / Cloud / Dedicated Servers with EasyEngine, Workshop By Radhakrishnan Mudliar & Chandra Patel

Hosting a website on a shared server is most common and easy thing you do while starting a new web project. Over the period, when your web receives a decent number of readers you need scalable structure – VPS / Cloud or Dedicated Server.

In this workshop, Radhe and Chandra will help you setup WordPress on the scalable structure with help of Python based script EasyEngine.

Takeaway

  • Understand the concepts of VPS
  • Know the Server Stack used for WordPress & Install it.
  • Learn how to use EasyEngine to install Single Site WordPress / Multisite
  • Learn how to use Redis Cache to optimise the speed of websites.
  • Know about Let’s Encrypt and the future of the Internet (encryption)
  • End up with WordPress site with caching, WP-CLI and PHP 7 setup.

Prereqs & Preparation

  • A fresh install of Ubuntu / other Debian-based OS. or
  • Linux and Mac users can use Vagrant. (vagrant init ubuntu/xenial64; vagrant up –provider VirtualBox) or
  • Remote VPS with fresh Ubuntu LTS.

About Radhakrishnan Mudliar
Radhe is Saraswatian was born and brought up in Nagpur and lives in Pune. His love for technology led to him co-founding rtCamp Solutions where he has played many roles over the years- developer, project manager, consultant and the one closest to his heart- DevOps lead. Because of his WordPress development experience, all-around knowledge and patient nature, he is often tasked with training projects at rtCamp.

A FOSS supporter and command line resident for many years, you can find him tinkering with Amazon servers, NGINX conf files, WordPress and of course, EasyEngine.

Radhe loves big numbers- whether handling servers with huge traffic, the size of his phone/computer screen or the amount of RAM in his Macbook.

About Chandra Patel
Chandra fell in love with WordPress in 2014 while he was freelancing as a web developer. Since then, he has been a regular Core contributor, General Translation Editor for Gujarati, and has contributed to WordPress Meta projects.

He is currently a VP of Engineering at rtCamp and leads their internal training program. He has developed a love for learning, as evident in his pursuit to learn WordPress deeply.

Over his weekends, you can catch him reading, watching movies and exploring the city.

We have only 40 Seats in the workshop room. RSVP here

WordCamp Nagpur 2017 is over. Check out the next edition!