Thank You rtCamp for being our Dandiya(GOLD) sponsor

rtCamp is an enterprise WordPress VIP agency based in the USA and India.

Founded in 2009 — over a decade — rtCamp has served large publishers and e-commerce businesses across five continents.

Some notable clients include Facebook, NewsUK, Penske Media Corporation, NJ Advance Media and LaterPay.

rtCamp’s 60+ strong team offers design, development, analytics, ad-revenue optimization, paywalls, subscriptions to help publishers succeed.

Think you’ll fit right in? They are always hiring at https://rtcamp.com/careers

Thank You Tyche Softwares for being our Dodhiyu(SILVER) sponsor

We would like to thank Tyche Softwares for being a Dodhiyu (Silver) Sponsor.

Tyche Softwares is a WordPress plugin development company specializing in plugins for WooCommerce. They proudly power store owners across the world with their WooCommerce plugins. These plugins help their clients directly by increasing their sales by recovering abandoned carts or by improving the post-purchase customer experience with the delivery date calendar.
Tyche Softwares sole focus is on providing high-quality niche plugins accompanied by superior customer support. It doesn’t matter if you have a rental business, or you are a florist, a bakery owner or a dentist – you will find the perfect WooCommerce plugin that will boost your business.
Tyche Softwares’ core team is passionate about their plugins, and they continuously release updates that add more value to them.
In addition to their premium plugins, they have some free & open-source plugins that are used on over 150000+ active websites, particularly the Abandoned Cart plugin stands out. If you are using WooCommerce, you cannot ignore this one free plugin that can increase your sales by up to 30% without any investment!
Headquartered in Mumbai, India, their team regularly speaks, sponsors, volunteers at WordCamps throughout India & elsewhere. 

Check out their current openings as well. They’re expanding their team!

Thank You HubSpot for being our Dodhiyu(SILVER) sponsor

We would like to thank HubSpot for being a Dodhiyu (Silver) Sponsor.

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading growth platform. Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. Today, over 56,500 customers in more than 100 countries use HubSpot’s award-winning software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. Comprised of Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, and a powerful free CRM, HubSpot gives companies the tools they need to Grow Better. Learn more about HubSpot for WordPress.

Thank You GoDaddy for being our Dodhiyu(SILVER) sponsor

We would like to thank GoDaddy for being a Dodhiyu (Silver) Sponsor. GoDaddy Pro offers a robust suite of free tools to web developers & designers to help them save time managing all their clients and sites. With GoDaddy Pro, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage all their WordPress websites from one place. Exclusive time-saving tools let you update WordPress core, plugins and themes with one click, as well as automate WordPress backups, cloning and migrations. Get real-time performance, security and uptime monitoring across all your websites. Additionally, your free membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support.

When you pair GoDaddy Pro with GoDaddy hosting products, the benefits are even greater.

Thank You Bluehost for being our Dodhiyu(SILVER) sponsor

We would like to thank Bluehost for being a Dodhiyu (Silver) Sponsor. Our sponsors make it possible to continue bringing these educational, community-supporting, and entertaining conferences to cities and towns all over the world. Sponsors like these give back to the free and open source WordPress project through their awesome support of the WordPress Community and WordCamps.

Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.

7 lessons learned while creating WP Plugins By Alkesh Miyani

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

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

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

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

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. 🙂