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Panel Discussion – Career in WordPress

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On WordCamp Vadodara Day, we have been surrounded by many of the novice Users who either wish to start their career or they are working towards their career Journey. So Considering that facts we are happy to Announce the Panel Discussion over the “Career in WordPress”, Those Novice users can ask how WordPress can be helpful to their Career Journey.

Following will be the Panelist for the Talk

1) Afsana Multani – The Moderator for the Panel Discussion

Afsana is an Artist, and WordPress is her passion since 2017. Working as a Customer Support with Multidots.

She enjoys working with WordPress and contributing to the community. she is an Organiser at WCAhmedabad 2018/2019! Volunteer in WCEU 2018/2019, and a WCSpeaker! Also an organizer and speaker at WPMeetup in my city.

she started a channel name “iamwplearner,” as knowledge sharing an activity with a dream of helping the local as well as WordPress Community where she wishes to share in different languages.

2) Alexander Gounder

Alexander runs Ink my web, a digital agency specializing in web development and inbound marketing in India. He has been fostering the local community for some time through organizing WordCamp Mumbai since 2014, as well as the WordPress Mumbai MeetUp Group.

He recently joined the PARIvar at People’s Archive of Rural India (Ruralindiaonline.org), an online journal dedicated to telling the stories of everyday lives of everyday people in Rural India, founded by veteran journalists P. Sainath.

3) Dhruvin Shah

Dhruvin is currently the Head of Products and Strategy at Tyche Softwares – a WordPress plugin development company specializing in plugins for WooCommerce. He has expertise in PHP and various frontend technologies such as Vue.js, AngularJS and React. He has been developing plugins since 2012 and has been a WordPress core contributor as well. His love for e-commerce has led me to create multiple plugins and solutions at Tyche Softwares.

Outside of work, you can find him enjoying sports or traveling around to different places.

4) Dixita Dusara

Dixita is a proficient and creative web developer with a strong history in WordPress development. She is working at WPMU Dev and have over 6+ years of experience in all aspects of WordPress website creation including, plugins, theme integration and implementation. 

Dixita has been working with WordPress since 2013. Her dream journey of WordPress career started from junior developer to senior web developer and now she is working remotely with one of the top organizations.

She is passionate about coding and contributing to the WordPress community. She is always ready to learn new things and meet new people in the WordPress community. Apart from work, She is a travel addict and loves exploring new places.

5) Sanjay Dabhoya

Sanjay is Technopreneur and WordPress Enthusiast 10+ years of experience in Web Development, Digital Marketing across various domains. He is the founder and CEO of Solwin Infotech, a company that focuses on WordPress products, WordPress customization, Ecommerce products & implementations, Web app development and mobile app development. 
He ventured into WordPress development in 2010 and developed some popular WordPress themes and plugins with his awesome team. He has been active in the WordPress community since last 5 years and has been contributing to WordPress in all the possible ways and he loves to attend WordCamps. He loves reading books and involved in various social activities for youth as a volunteer.

6) You  

we assume that the Audience is the Panelist and Moderator for any panel discussion so being Audience you are free to Be Both Panelist and/or Moderator. So be Ready with your Questions/Sharing which you can Share during this time.

Thank You Techeshta for being our Sanedo(BRONZE) sponsor

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We would like to thank Techeshta for being a Sanedo(Bronze) Sponsor.

Techeshta team provides the best quality WordPress Website Design, Development, SEO Services Company in India. We proudly focus on WordPress product development – themes/plugins and customization stuff like building awesome websites. Our approach includes detailed research and planning, collaborative workshops, flexible design and a proven development process including testing for each custom solution we create.

Some noticeable products that we created as free for everyone – Blogmentor, Card Elements for Elementor, Layouts for Elementor, Layouts for Divi, Layouts for WPBakery, Timeline Blocks for Gutenberg, Post Layouts for Gutenberg, etc.

We’re a team of 15+ guys who are front-end developers, Web & Graphic designers, WordPress developers, and Shopify developers.

We’re always hiring for good candidates, click here to apply.

Thank You CreedAlly for being our Sanedo(BRONZE) sponsor

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We would like to thank CreedAlly for being a Sanedo(Bronze) Sponsor.

CreedAlly, a prolific WordPress Agency having a global presence in India and Canada. We focus on providing end to end WordPress services starting from the discovery phase to after delivery support with a customer-centric approach. Having said that WordPress is not just about business instead of it mainly sustains on the large WordPress community across the globe.  Taking the core thought-process of WordPress forward, CreedAlly also believes in contributing to open source and supporting the community with an aim to spread awareness among people. CreedAlly is happy to serve its eCommerce and Online Publishing clients in India, Canada, USA, Mexico, Germany, Thailand, and South Africa. 

7 lessons learned while creating WP Plugins By Alkesh Miyani

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About Session

Alkesh will be speaking about lessons that he learned while started the WordPress plugin development journey as a product store after freelancer life. This will be a real-life story to explore success and failure and balance of it. And also, he will explore future visions of own plugin development store or become part of any existing plugins at wordpress.org.

If you’re thinking to start your own product store as a part-time earner or business then this will be a good session to note down points before making that decision.

Speaker Information

Alkesh Miyani is the CEO and founder of Techeshta, a digital agency with a focus on WordPress web design and development for clients and also creating themes and plugins as in-house products. He’s been working full-time with WordPress since 2012. He has good career journey from Product Q/A guy to WordPress Developer and from Developer to own agency with members of 10+ guys in the team. He developed more than 50 plugins and more than 30 themes in WordPress and those are well-known on wordpress.org and CodeCanyon too.

He’s passionate about open source and sharing knowledge and code with the WordPress community. He is generally speaking at different city meetups like Ahmedabad, Surat, etc.

Gatsby: Rise of Modern Framework with WordPress By Rutuja Ambekar

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About Session

The session emphasizes on how to build your awesome site using Gatsby as a front end and WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System) i.e. back-end. WordPress with its awesome plugins and templates has already paved its path, but now with its an amalgamation with Gatsby you get wholesome results in static site creation.

Being a web developer, we have more alternatives to build a site which always leaves us in vagueness which framework to adopt. As a developer, we always aspire to enhance our tech-stack.

Gatsby being released in 2017 already has countless fans and has proved the world that it’s not just hype. Gatsby is based on React.js, Webpack, as well as other front-end tools and uses GraphQL to feed the website with data, which is the primary cause of people stirring to the static site generators. 

WordPress CMS with its customizable design and easy and user-friendly interface has always been a great option for managing content. It is Open Source and is the first choice for most bloggers, but it can also be successfully used for designing simple websites. These two technologies, Gatsby and WordPress could leverage our experience of website development.

Speaker Information

Rutuja Ambekar is Student, Blogger and Tech enthusiast.

She is a tech enthusiast having a flair for writing. Four years into blogging, she is close to reaching three hundred readers on her blog. She had hands upon several platforms to showcase her creations and finally stumbled on this perfect combination “Gatsby.js + WordPress”. She is playing with Gatsby for front-end and WordPress CMS as a backend for creating a powerful static website.

Rutuja, being a community believer has organized several events and conducted seminars in her university to encourage students towards startup ideation. She is an active attendee and participant in DSC activities.

She is exploring neural networks; especially PixelCNN and RBMs and magenta library of Python for image generation. She also secured the third position in HackerEarth Hackathon which was organized at the district level.  Along with this, she also pitched for her team at the national level competition at IIT Bombay. She also led her team in an intercountry college program where they scaled projects into startups and worked on a website that will be correcting grammar and sentence formation using machine learning tools. She has a team research paper published in Excel India Publications, New Delhi.

Growing Your Enterprise – Building the Right Digital Marketing Blueprint By Madhuram Yadav

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About Session

Marketing in the digital world is a big puzzle to solve. You need to ask yourself:

  • How can you market yourself better with the right target market and which is the fastest way to achieve?
  • What should be your strategy?
  • What should be your detailed plan?
  • Do you have a blueprint ready to plan your marketing strategy including:
    • What content to create?
    • Where to promote?
    • What channels to use?
    • What keywords to use?
    • How to plan your marketing budget?
    • Which events to attend?
    • What KPI’s to measure for your marketing success?

These are some of the things you need to address first before investing in marketing and growing your business.

In this session, Madhuram will be sharing the marketing blueprint he used to develop his own digital marketing company with limited resources and signing the first customer.

Speaker Information

Madhuram Yadav aka Maddy is working for more than a decade in the marketing & technology industry. At present, he has left his full-time lucrative job to pursue the entrepreneurship role and working as a marketing & communication consultant at WorkingRabbit. He helps companies grow through marketing efforts and also provides training & strategic support to SMEs.

Being an engineer by heart, he has done his MBA in Marketing and also works on analytics projects after finishing a Masters in Marketing Analytics. He fine tunes his skills by participating in Kaggle and online open competitions for improving his knowledge & learning.

Feel free to catch up with him and pick his mind at the WordCamps.

WP++ : Next Level of Quality in WordPress By Anish Shah

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About Session

What is your responsibility in your WordPress Project or Product? To deliver with RIGHT QUALITY is the most important aspect in any WordPress projects. That is the current trend right now in today’s world. Qualitative mindset is the key over here.

  • WP++ means, incrementing WordPress in each possible way
  • Starting with the meaning of Quality as a whole
  • Why Quality is Free & it is everyone’s responsibility
  • Elements of WordPress which I can improve
  • development using TDD & BDD
  • Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment in WordPress
  • Supportive tools with me who gives me the power to make WP++

Speaker Information

Anish Shah working as a WordPress Team Lead in Multidots. Fond of agile development methodologies and especially Scrum Framework. Love to explore new technologies and new development trends. Without thinking about success or failure eager to try new things. I strongly believe in “Team is power”, and that is the reason my focus is empowering and improving team members.

Happiness Engineering, Customer Experience, and WordPress By Vishakha Patel

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About Session

We hear about providing good support, good customer experience many times. How do we define it?

My definition to a good customer experience is, “An experience of a customer that wins the customer for a lifetime and he shares his experience with others.”

It is essential to provide experience to the customers when they reach us. It is also interesting to understand how it impacts us as a business.

This presentation is all about handling customers, their questions in an efficient manner that makes them happy and make your life easy too. I’d like to share my knowledge and small tools that help me in my routine.

Speaker Information

Vishakha Patel has worked in various portfolios in the past 9 years. Currently, she is involved in affiliate and partnerships marketing portfolio with Themeisle. 

One of the common things Vishakha likes in her occupation is customer relationship. Understanding and observing customers fascinate her.

When she gets some time, she shares her knowledge at vishakhapatel.in and attend WordCamps. 🙂 

Google Ranking Factors 2020: Opinions from 1,500+ Professional SEOs By Raghuveer Singh Rao

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About Session

In August of 2019, 1,584 professionals in the field of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) took a survey sharing their opinions on the relative use and merit of various inputs in Google’s ranking systems. In this session, Raghuveer will share the aggregated results of that survey. These factors will help the whole WordPress community. From the designer, developer, QA and SEO we all have to keep in mind these factors.

SEO Professionals believe Google has a wide variance of how ranking inputs are weighted depending on the query words used. This makes the analysis of the ranking systems vastly more challenging (as a ranking input might be very important for one set of queries, and relatively unimportant for another).

Speaker Information

Raghuveer Singh Rao was born and raised in lake city – Udaipur, India. Currently, Raghuveer is Chief Marketing Officer at iCubes. He is a software engineer turned SEO consultant, digital marketing pioneer, Quora writer and speaker. He inspires professionals to build marketing magic that gets real time results.

Outside of the office, He loves to run and He completed half marathons and many 10 KM races. His love for cricket makes him unstoppable to talk about its players, facts, figures and records everytime 🙂

He is 6 year digital marketing veteran with a passion for driving growth and tangible results for startups, brands and entrepreneurs.
He worked with over 20+ startups across all tiers of funding (Seed Round to Series E) and sizes (<10 to 100+), generating brand awareness, website traffic, signups, downloads, and – most importantly – customers and revenue.

Creating Gutenberg Blocks with ACF By Imran Sayed

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About Session

Gutenberg brings a powerful block editing experience with several default blocks but sometimes we may need to create custom ones. Creating Gutenberg blocks can be a challenging task as it involves writing a lot of code, even for creating a simple testimonial block. Since the process of learning JavaScript and React can be time-consuming, many developers find creating custom blocks quite complicated. Do I really need to learn JavaScript deeply to build blocks? Is there a quicker and simpler way? Well, this is where Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) come to the rescue. In this talk, Imran will demonstrate how ACF blocks feature would help you create blocks in a very simple way.

Speaker Information

Imran is a WordPress Developer at rtCamp. He is also a WordCamp Speaker, Meetup Organizer, and a regular contributor to the WordPress community. He has a rich experience in Node, React and Laravel.
Imran is also the author of the popular twenty nineteen WordPress theme ported over to Frontity in React.
Apart from this, Imran has a great passion for teaching and sharing knowledge. You can check out his YouTube channel, where he teaches Programming on WordPress and Laravel.
As a hobby, Imran likes to write blogs on medium (@imranhsayed) and has a passion for photography.
Openness and inclusiveness is something he dearly loves about the WordPress community.