🇮🇳 WordCamp Ahmedabad 2019

User-first websites are critical to acquire, engage, convert and retain customers. Immersive and delightful content, in the format your users prefer, is at the heart of user-first websites. According to a research done by Google, 75% of users rate the page load time, as the most important UX element. Progressive Web development brings capabilities like offline and notifications, and provides a native-like experience to engage your users. Lastly, the right measurement tools and insights, equip you to convert and retain your users. In this session, learn what Google is doing to help you build great user-first websites on WordPress.

With the advancement of voice technology, the era of search technology over the internet is also varying. Nowadays, people have already preferred to use voice search technology as their primary mode of doing online searches.
Voice technology is already creating a lot of publicity that affects people’s attention. As a result, many of the online domains and industry niches implement it in their business model, like mobile development of eCommerce.
The evolution of Voice technology affects many of the industries, includes Ecommerce as well.

WordPress has come up with a new editor since version 5.0

Though it had been around an year, still there are many plugins and features in themes which have not been modified for Gutenberg and still need the classic editor. In this session I will help the audience to understand how they can easily convert the old functionalities to new Gutenberg blocks.

Themes are dead, long live the theme! Creating a ‘themeless’ WordPress website using 2nd generation page builders – for non-developers interested in total layout and design control.

A version of this talk/demo/workshop was given at WordCamp Cape Town 2017 and WordCamp Mumbai 2019

* State of the Theme – challenges of WordPress themes
* A ‘themeless’ theme – introducing the concept of a theme builder with examples of plugins that support this
* Starter/minimal themes – what/why these are and options available
* Practical – live demo/walk-though using Elementor and/or Oxygen
* Coming up Roses – challenges of theme builders
* Gutenberg –  the future of Gutenberg Everything

The topic covers different optimization techniques and suggest some best Plugins available in the market to speed up any WordPress site.

Cutting down the manual efforts will increase productivity by 10X.

This session will help you understand what to automate and when’s the best time to automate things. For example, how to trigger an action once the customer has purchased your product?

We will explore:
1. Introduction to Automation
2. Need for Automation
3. Automation Tools
4. Solving Problems with Automation
5. Finding Opportunities for Automation

The common misconception is that WordPress is only suitable for small sites and blogs, but in actuality, WordPress is already used to power some of the highest traffic websites on the Internet.

In this talk, Amit will share his experience about writing code that will perform well regardless of the size of your site. He will review commonly heard practices many do not follow, what it takes to write code that is less prone to errors, and how to organize code that is easy to maintain for teams of any size.

The art of generating the right kind of leads that converts is the backbone of any service-based company. This is a common situation in most service based businesses where the marketing team generate lots of leads but the sales team is not able to convert it. If the complete lead generation strategies are rightly designed, then the chance of those generated leads to be converted into a customer increase significantly. In my proposed talk I will be addressing why this problem happens and how to generate the right kind of leads, that can easily be converted by the Sales Team while also improving the overall experience of the new customer.

Video blogging is on trending nowadays and on our channel @Fireflydo we talk about Travel, Food, Culture videos and now we have started the videos on social issues as well and we are getting a good response and we are able to to make a change.
We are with 4000 followers and 2500 Facebook followers now and we are working on YouTube where we are getting a good response and we have 1000 subscribers and 40,000+ viewers.

There is a storm of challenges and opportunities coming to WordPress. Will you grow or perish? **How can you increase your odds of achieving your dreams?** What mistakes should you avoid? What tactics can you use?

Nirav has seen a lot in two decades of his entrepreneurship journey in open source world. And he’s got hundreds of stories to tell you.

But _since the organizers can’t allow him to occupy the stage forever_, he’s picking four of his best real life stories!

And as you actively listen to them, you will learn:

• The surprising 10x growth formula
• Gut-wrenching struggle with cutting edge technologies and a survival principle that works all the time…
• What keeps us from attaining our dreams – the real reasons…
• How to diagnose when **you’re in a messy downward spiral**, and how to recover quickly…
• And a lot more!

If you are wondering how to deal with increasing competition, or if you are having a hard time learning a new technology, or if you’re confused about what can give your career a better direction, or if you simply want to find better work-life balance, this is one session you certainly want to attend.

Progressive Web App is a hot topic on the web right now.

As per recent studies ( Comscore ), users spend more time ( 87% ) on the native app compared to the mobile web because native apps are more predictable, they work offline, show notifications and have access to mobile sensors.

However, 78% of the time is spent in the user’s top 3 apps, and the rest of the apps just sit there and eat up the memory.

Mobile web, on the other hand, has a better reach ( 100 visits/ month for an average user ) but does not does have a native-like experience.

In this talk you will learn, how we can combine the capabilities of native apps and the reach of the web, to get the best of both worlds, using Progressive Web Apps with WordPress.

According to skilled.co 47% of customers expect a webpage to load in 2 seconds or less before they consider leaving.

This means low speed kills and we need an app that is performant.

You will learn about my experiences in building a Progressive Web App with WordPress, that earns a place on the user’s home screen, works offline, sync in the background and bring the user back with push notification.

A few lessons and tips will be shared for anyone who wants to build a new Progressive Web App with WordPress or convert their existing WordPress site into a PWA and give their users a fast, reliable and engaging experience.