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This workshop is aimed to give a brief introduction and hands on to the WordPress CMS, its features, and an overview of how to install WordPress on your system or hosting and set up a site quickly.

What can you expect from this Workshop?

• Understand what WordPress is and what its features are.
• Learn how to install WordPress.
• Learn about features such as posts, pages, forms etc.
• Get an overview of plugins and themes and Drag and Drop page builders.

Prerequisites:

1. Zero coding knowledge required
2. A tablet device or a laptop with a mobile hotspot is recommended but not mandatory. 

About Prathamesh Palve

Prathamesh Palve works as a tech support team lead with WPMU DEV. He has been working on WordPress 2009 since he started making websites. Before this, he worked with a few companies around India.

He loves open-source culture and also contributes by doing translations in Marathi and Hindi for many themes and plugins and is also a WPTV contributor.

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Having a good mobile phone is not enough to take good photos for your Social media or Website.

In this session, you will get tips to improve your smartphone photography skills and understand some technical aspects, which will help you to take the best out of your mobile.

About Alessandra Ramos
Alessandra Ramos is a Brazilian photographer, Graduated in photography from a renowned institute in Curitiba, Brazil. After graduating in Portuguese and English Literature and History of Arts, Alessandra is passionate about arts and culture. She specialized in portrait photography and documentary photography.

She married an Indian citizen in 2014 and is currently based and working as a professional photographer and educator with her studio situated in Nagpur, India. She is also a visiting faculty of photography at Symbiosis International University, Nagpur.

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• Website
• Instagram
• Linkedin

Pritam perceives the process of content creation as similar to farming. Consistency for farming and blogging, risk calculation, and patience for results are some of the similar factors for both fields. How two worlds of farming and technology are similar is explained by Pritam in his very interesting topic The Farming Analogy For Blogging/Vlogging Success

About Pritam Sonone
Pritam is a blogger, YouTuber, content creator, and agricultural graduate. Hailing from Darwha, Yavatmal, Pritam is a passionate content creator about farming that helps other farmers learn everything about agriculture on his blog, AmhiKastkar.
Pritam shares his knowledge and learnings about agriculture in Marathi on his Youtube channel with 379K subscribers.

Connect with Pritam

• Youtube
• Twitter

Note: This session is in Marathi

Managing multiple analytics and marketing tags for your site can be a challenge. Redundant or incorrect tags can distort data measurement and reduce your site performance. In this session, you’ll learn how Google Tag Manager can simplify the tag implementation and management process for marketers, analysts, and developers.

About Arnav Chaudhary
Arnav is an Experienced Engineering with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry-leading teams of various sizes. Skilled in Python, PHP, and Databases. He has worked with multiple Startups and currently working as an Engineering Manager at NewFold Digital in Mumbai, India

Connect With Arnav Chaudhary

• Twitter
• Linkedin

Writing readable code is one of the most important aspects of web development. A developer should write code which another human is able to understand without the help of too many comments.

This talk will show you how to tidy up your code and write readable PHP.

About Abbas Ali

• Abbas is a veteran of PHP development and has been working in the industry for over 18 years.
• Abbas has worked on all kinds of CMSs and frameworks like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Laravel, CakePHP etc.
• Also authored a book published by Packt Publishing titled “Sphinx Search: A beginner’s guide”.
• He is the curator for the Laravel Nagpur meetup and has been organizing monthly meetups on PHP and Laravel since 2018.

Connect with Abbas Ali

• Twitter
• Linkedin

The way visual design to the WordPress theme development cycle used to run in the pre-Gutenberg era needs to undergo significant change to unlock the efficiency made available by Gutenberg. Educating designers about Gutenberg constructs such as block styles, block variations, block patterns, global style variations, and reusable blocks can bring designers and developers closers, reducing turnaround time on projects and improving quality.

About Rahi Prajapati
Rahi hails from Gujarat, India and is currently working as an Engineering Manager at a WordPress agency, rtCamp. He has been working with WordPress since 2018. He is in love with the Gutenberg project, the FSE (Full Site Editing) initiative, and he contributes towards it over the weekends. Apart from WordPress, he enjoys food, games, movies, and travelling in his spare time.

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This talk will provide a holistic look at UX and cover the four main pillars of the discipline: Usability and heuristics, information architecture, UX research, and interaction and interface design with examples, easy definitions and funny references. This talk aims to educate the audience in a fun, easy-to-digest way about UX principles and how to implement them.

About Vednidhi
She is a UI/UX designer with over Three years of experience. Presently, working as a Product Manager for a startup. She is passionate about User Experience and loves to talk about design, best practices, tips and inspiration.

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• Linkedin
• Website

If the quality of the content on Online Learning Platforms like Udemy, Coursera, Uacademy makes you think that

• You don’t have the resources to teach online
• making a course with video content is too expensive
• you are not good at talking in front of a camera
  then this session is for you.

Sekander will talk about tools and methods you can use at home, like a mirror, a table lamp, a smartphone, a whiteboard, and tools you can find for free online. You can start teaching with as little as 700 rupees.

About Sekander

Sekander started his WordPress journey back in 2012 with Theme development. He developed a couple of national daily newspapers with online editions in Bangladesh. In 2014, He joined weDevs as a happiness engineer and transitioned into a content writer, email marketer, digital marketing expert, partnerships manager, product manager and project manager.
He is one of the general translation editors of the Bengali team.

He is currently the Head of Growth Marketing at LifterLMS, where he has been working on eLearning solutions for the past four years.

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• Linkedin

Content is the King, or is content here to KILL totally depends on you. And why not. The world runs on content and data. Data derived from the content attracts users to your brand, or you. Content today derives your sales and provides your brand with a unique identity. Does that mean content creation is tough? Not really. Ashutosh’s talk defines a breakdown of content creation that can be taken into consideration the next time you write or create content for yourself and your audience/brand. His talk would also define what to keep in mind and how the changing trends should be kept up to date while creating content.

About Ashutosh
Ashutosh has been a part of the startup ecosystem since the age of 22. In 10 years, he founded two IT firms and an online radio portal. He currently works as a Digital Head at NH1 Design, a design firm in Gurgaon, Haryana. In addition, he heads his online radio platform called Riddleman FM. Creating content and music is Ashutosh’s outlet to cool down, and he believes that ideas are in the air-pick one and start implementing. This belief has made him help many startups with a roadmap for go-to-market strategy.

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• Twitter
• Linkedin

WordPress is the most popular content management system on the Internet. And the introduction of REST APIs carved out the path to implementing a decoupled and headless architecture.

In this talk, we’ll discuss what JAMstack is, what it offers, the pros and cons, and where WordPress fits in with it all.

About Harshal

Harshal is a Nagpur Born software developer based in Pune. Who spends most of his time glued to a laptop writing all sorts of JavaScript code. He has been using JavaScript for building web-based applications for about Seven years now and loves to explore possibilities and take things to the next level.

Currently, Harshal is working at FIS Global as Sr. Lead Engineer.

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• Linkedin
• Twitter