🇮🇳 WordCamp Kerala 2023

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) is an important pillar for the success of any organization or community. However, it is often seen that there is a lack of diverse voices in many technology communities and organizations. This panel discussion attempts to address this problem heads-on. The discussion will revolve along the importance of DEIB, the current shortcomings faced by underrepresented folks. The session will also talk in detail about bringing more underrepresented folks, especially women into the technology industry.

Anooja Bashir: CMO of FlexiCloud and CEO of Ourea, Nisha Elza: CEO of Talk Digital, Hitha C K: Independent Web Professional and Co-Organizer, WordCamp Kerala, and Asha Anie Bose: Senior Software Engineer, Ceymox and Co-organizer, Magento Meetup Kochi are the participants in this session.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) is an important pillar for the success of any organization or community. However, it is often seen that there is a lack of diverse voices in many technology communities and organizations. This panel discussion attempts to address this problem heads-on. The discussion will revolve along the importance of DEIB, the current shortcomings faced by underrepresented folks. The session will also talk in detail about bringing more underrepresented folks, especially women into the technology industry.

Anooja Bashir: CMO of FlexiCloud and CEO of Ourea, Nisha Elza: CEO of Talk Digital, Hitha C K: Independent Web Professional and Co-Organizer, WordCamp Kerala, and Asha Anie Bose: Senior Software Engineer, Ceymox and Co-organizer, Magento Meetup Kochi are the participants in this session.

No discussion on WordPress can be complete without a discussion on hosting. Web hosts are an integral part of the WordPress experience. Within the Kerala WordPress community, there are always several active conversations on hosting – with a focus on performance, optimization, security, and not to mention – cost. This panel brings together, the who’s who of web hosting to discuss several of these concerns. The panel also offers a chance for participants to ask questions on these topics, and find answers to all their hosting queries.

Dominyka Miksenaite: Community Manager, Hostinger, Karan Desai, Senior Solutions Architect Team Lead, Amazon Web Services, Nathan D’Mello, Associate Product Manager, Bluehost (Newfold Digital), Robin Chalia, Senior Software Engineer II & Team Lead, One.com, and Vinod Chacko, Business Development Director – India, Vultr, will be the speakers in this session.

No discussion on WordPress can be complete without a discussion on hosting. Web hosts are an integral part of the WordPress experience. Within the Kerala WordPress community, there are always several active conversations on hosting – with a focus on performance, optimization, security, and not to mention – cost. This panel brings together, the who’s who of web hosting to discuss several of these concerns. The panel also offers a chance for participants to ask questions on these topics, and find answers to all their hosting queries.

Dominyka Miksenaite: Community Manager, Hostinger, Karan Desai, Senior Solutions Architect Team Lead, Amazon Web Services, Nathan D’Mello, Associate Product Manager, Bluehost (Newfold Digital), Robin Chalia, Senior Software Engineer II & Team Lead, One.com, and Vinod Chacko, Business Development Director – India, Vultr, will be the speakers in this session.

No discussion on WordPress can be complete without a discussion on hosting. Web hosts are an integral part of the WordPress experience. Within the Kerala WordPress community, there are always several active conversations on hosting – with a focus on performance, optimization, security, and not to mention – cost. This panel brings together, the who’s who of web hosting to discuss several of these concerns. The panel also offers a chance for participants to ask questions on these topics, and find answers to all their hosting queries.

Dominyka Miksenaite: Community Manager, Hostinger, Karan Desai, Senior Solutions Architect Team Lead, Amazon Web Services, Nathan D’Mello, Associate Product Manager, Bluehost (Newfold Digital), Robin Chalia, Senior Software Engineer II & Team Lead, One.com, and Vinod Chacko, Business Development Director – India, Vultr, will be the speakers in this session.

No discussion on WordPress can be complete without a discussion on hosting. Web hosts are an integral part of the WordPress experience. Within the Kerala WordPress community, there are always several active conversations on hosting – with a focus on performance, optimization, security, and not to mention – cost. This panel brings together, the who’s who of web hosting to discuss several of these concerns. The panel also offers a chance for participants to ask questions on these topics, and find answers to all their hosting queries.

Dominyka Miksenaite: Community Manager, Hostinger, Karan Desai, Senior Solutions Architect Team Lead, Amazon Web Services, Nathan D’Mello, Associate Product Manager, Bluehost (Newfold Digital), Robin Chalia, Senior Software Engineer II & Team Lead, One.com, and Vinod Chacko, Business Development Director – India, Vultr, will be the speakers in this session.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) is an important pillar for the success of any organization or community. However, it is often seen that there is a lack of diverse voices in many technology communities and organizations. This panel discussion attempts to address this problem heads-on. The discussion will revolve along the importance of DEIB, the current shortcomings faced by underrepresented folks. The session will also talk in detail about bringing more underrepresented folks, especially women into the technology industry.

Anooja Bashir: CMO of FlexiCloud and CEO of Ourea, Nisha Elza: CEO of Talk Digital, Hitha C K: Independent Web Professional and Co-Organizer, WordCamp Kerala, and Asha Anie Bose: Senior Software Engineer, Ceymox and Co-organizer, Magento Meetup Kochi are the participants in this session.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) is an important pillar for the success of any organization or community. However, it is often seen that there is a lack of diverse voices in many technology communities and organizations. This panel discussion attempts to address this problem heads-on. The discussion will revolve along the importance of DEIB, the current shortcomings faced by underrepresented folks. The session will also talk in detail about bringing more underrepresented folks, especially women into the technology industry.

Anooja Bashir: CMO of FlexiCloud and CEO of Ourea, Nisha Elza: CEO of Talk Digital, Hitha C K: Independent Web Professional and Co-Organizer, WordCamp Kerala, and Asha Anie Bose: Senior Software Engineer, Ceymox and Co-organizer, Magento Meetup Kochi are the participants in this session.

Recently, an independent study projected that the WordPress Economy is worth USD$597 billion, and is projected to grow to USD$636 billion and beyond. There are millions of professionals who either use WordPress or rely on the open source platform to earn a living. Simultaneously, there are immense business opportunities in the market, with an appetite to only grow more. In this session, we bring together a group of serial WordPress entrepreneurs who are neck deep in the WordPress ecosystem. They talk about their wins, failures, learnings, and join an interesting and exciting discussion on the WordPress economy of 2023 – what lies ahead, what things to be aware of, what are the challenges and opportunities, and more.

The panel will have the following members: Ashutosh Gaur (moderator)- Founder, Riddleman FM., Akshat Choudhary – CEO Blogvault, M Asif Rahman – Founder WPDeveloper, Aravind Ajith – CEO AWSM Innovations, and Rajendra Zore – CMO RunCloud and CEO HostMyBlog

Recently, an independent study projected that the WordPress Economy is worth USD$597 billion, and is projected to grow to USD$636 billion and beyond. There are millions of professionals who either use WordPress or rely on the open source platform to earn a living. Simultaneously, there are immense business opportunities in the market, with an appetite to only grow more. In this session, we bring together a group of serial WordPress entrepreneurs who are neck deep in the WordPress ecosystem. They talk about their wins, failures, learnings, and join an interesting and exciting discussion on the WordPress economy of 2023 – what lies ahead, what things to be aware of, what are the challenges and opportunities, and more.

The panel will have the following members: Ashutosh Gaur (moderator)- Founder, Riddleman FM., Akshat Choudhary – CEO Blogvault, M Asif Rahman – Founder WPDeveloper, Aravind Ajith – CEO AWSM Innovations, and Rajendra Zore – CMO RunCloud and CEO HostMyBlog

In the wake of GDPR and other user privacy laws like CCPA, POPIA, etc., protecting your privacy online has become a heated topic. The number of people actively trying to reduce their digital footprint has increased thanks to the rising awareness and concerns about their privacy in recent years. Even still, a lot of websites are yet to comply with these laws for various reasons, and non-compliance with these laws can potentially invite heavy fines.

So it becomes vital that WordPress, which is powering about 40% of the internet, leads by example in protecting user data privacy at its core – not just for complying with the law but also for putting users first and building their trust.

1. What is Content Marketing (CM) and why should I master my content?
2. Content architecture, what are the types of CM? 
3. How is CM connected to WP? ——> WP is an excellent CMS
4. CM etiquetes –> the right and wrong of CM, empathy, click worthy titles, 
5. How can I do cm on my website? –> SEO
6. Do I need to buy expensive landing page builders? Uff click funnels is $99 per month.
7. What is the secret ingredient of the content? ——> Create “How to?” content.
8. Do Service with Content – how can my content solve my audiences’ problem.
9. Tools –  WPwebsite, youtube, emails –> lethal combination.
10. Case study – a friend who is using the above 3 to make a decent income from home. 

Why what where of contributing to WordPress

Why – Why to test WordPress plugin

• To determine best quality of the product
• To improve Performance & Security
• Satisfaction of the customer
• Helps in saving money

What – What type of tests require for WordPress Plugin
Types of Tests in General

• Unit Testing & Integration Testing – Developer’s court
• Functional Test – For all the functionality of the plugin
• User Interface (UI) Test – For the design and UI of the plugin
• Regression Test – For after effects of changes and bug fixes
• Acceptance Test – To match the requirement with actual result
• Performance & Security Test – To make sure It’s combination of Ferrari and Hummer
• Features and Usability Test – To make sure core purpose is delivered

Variety of Compatibility Tests

• Installation/Uninstallation and Upgrade
• Multi-site Compatibility
• PHP & WordPress version Compatibility
• Browser Compatibility
• Theme & Page Builder Compatibility
• Third-Party Plugin Compatibility
• Mobile Compatibility
• Language Translation Compatibility

How – How to test WordPress Plugin

• Set up a Staging Environment
• Test the beta version on staging site
• Perform various types of tests which described earlier
• Perform upgrade procedure to check the updated plugin
• Perform after release smoke test

Conclusion

• Summary of WWH of WordPress plugin testing

Are you feeling unfulfilled at your work? Join me for a thought-provoking 10-minute talk to explore a few proven strategies for reigniting passion. Discover new perspective to approach your work and leave feeling inspired to make meaningful changes in your professional life.

Time: 10:15 AM, Venue: Chancellor Hall, IMA House Duration: 1 hour Session Type: Workshop

This workshop is mainly for non-technical users, bloggers, business owners, professionals, or basically anyone who wants to use the new site editing feature to build a site that they want.

We’ll go over basic concepts, navigating the interface, choosing a theme, building and editing templates, and even downloading your edits as a custom theme.

This is a workshop that needs prior sign ups. To attend, please sign up for the workshop after purchasing a WordCamp Kerala ticket.

In this session, I would encourage use of automation for day to day tasks in a person’s work and personal life. Also, would emphasise on how someone can work on and eventually build personal dashboards, and products to achieve automation using several (and maybe cost effective) low code tools.

Recently, an independent study projected that the WordPress Economy is worth USD$597 billion, and is projected to grow to USD$636 billion and beyond. There are millions of professionals who either use WordPress or rely on the open source platform to earn a living. Simultaneously, there are immense business opportunities in the market, with an appetite to only grow more. In this session, we bring together a group of serial WordPress entrepreneurs who are neck deep in the WordPress ecosystem. They talk about their wins, failures, learnings, and join an interesting and exciting discussion on the WordPress economy of 2023 – what lies ahead, what things to be aware of, what are the challenges and opportunities, and more.

The panel will have the following members: Ashutosh Gaur (moderator)- Founder, Riddleman FM., Akshat Choudhary – CEO Blogvault, M Asif Rahman – Founder WPDeveloper, Aravind Ajith – CEO AWSM Innovations, and Rajendra Zore – CMO RunCloud and CEO HostMyBlog

In this presentation, I hope to shed light on the various professions engaged in the WordPress ecosystem from the perspective of a girl with an IT job in the government. Most people believe developers and designers are the only roles in WordPress, although there are several Community / Product Management / Marketing / Sales / Affiliates positions.

Customer research doesn’t need to be complex, expensive, or time-consuming. In this topic, I will discuss how to understand customer’s pain points and how best to tackle them from their point of view. I will share valuable insights into customer behavior, preferences, and issues by mastering the art of conducting client interviews and internal studies. I will uncover insights hidden in data collection by using proper segmentation. By applying five golden survey questions, you’ll better understand your customer’s needs, wants, and desires. Finally, we’ll discuss leveraging real-time insights that will help you craft more effective solutions for your customers.

No discussion on WordPress can be complete without a discussion on hosting. Web hosts are an integral part of the WordPress experience. Within the Kerala WordPress community, there are always several active conversations on hosting – with a focus on performance, optimization, security, and not to mention – cost. This panel brings together, the who’s who of web hosting to discuss several of these concerns. The panel also offers a chance for participants to ask questions on these topics, and find answers to all their hosting queries.

Dominyka Miksenaite: Community Manager, Hostinger, Karan Desai, Senior Solutions Architect Team Lead, Amazon Web Services, Nathan D’Mello, Associate Product Manager, Bluehost (Newfold Digital), Robin Chalia, Senior Software Engineer II & Team Lead, One.com, and Vinod Chacko, Business Development Director – India, Vultr, will be the speakers in this session.

In this talk, Lax explains how site owners can secure their WordPress site, with actionable tips.

Learn more about authentication to web application firewall in plain English, without jargon, and apply them on your website or client websites

Recently, an independent study projected that the WordPress Economy is worth USD$597 billion, and is projected to grow to USD$636 billion and beyond. There are millions of professionals who either use WordPress or rely on the open source platform to earn a living. Simultaneously, there are immense business opportunities in the market, with an appetite to only grow more. In this session, we bring together a group of serial WordPress entrepreneurs who are neck deep in the WordPress ecosystem. They talk about their wins, failures, learnings, and join an interesting and exciting discussion on the WordPress economy of 2023 – what lies ahead, what things to be aware of, what are the challenges and opportunities, and more.

The panel will have the following members: Ashutosh Gaur (moderator)- Founder, Riddleman FM., Akshat Choudhary – CEO Blogvault, M Asif Rahman – Founder WPDeveloper, Aravind Ajith – CEO AWSM Innovations, and Rajendra Zore – CMO RunCloud and CEO HostMyBlog

A firewall is a force field around your site, screening incoming traffic for security threats. They are the first line of defence, and therefore a critical part of WordPress security. However, not all firewalls are built the same, can be tricky to configure correctly. In this talk, I will talk about what a WordPress firewall is, how it works, and how to pick a good one to protect your site from threats

Importing plugins are arguably one of the biggest reasons for WordPress’ early success, see: https://github.com/WordPress/book/blob/trunk/Content/Part2/9-freedom-zero.md

I would like to talk about importing in WordPress in 2023, and what we can do to make sure that the next generation of folks using closed-source & proprietary content management systems can move to WordPress without trouble.

Exploration of how to build a Software as a Service or Platform as a Service with using WordPress.
The topic could be dynamic in nature, drive by the attendee strength.
Based on the user base, I can prepare all three version of slides.
“No-Code”: using plugins to get your tool ready.
“Low-Code”: some plugins and some custom code.
“Just-Code”: ways to use WP’s functions and APIs to create the complete tool by custom code, yet keeping WordPress as the base architecture.

Time: 2:30 PM, Venue: Chancellor Hall, IMA House Duration: Up to 2 hours

In this workshop, you will learn how to create your own custom block theme using a step-by-step approach that is easy to follow. We will start with the basics of a block theme and explore the various tools and resources available to help you bring your creative vision to life. By the end of this workshop, you will have the skills and confidence to design and build a fully-functional block theme that is uniquely yours. Whether you are a seasoned WordPress developer or a beginner looking to explore the possibilities of block themes, this workshop intends to provide valuable insights and practical tips to help you unleash your creativity and take your WordPress site to the next level.

This is a workshop that needs prior sign ups. To attend, please sign up for the workshop after purchasing a WordCamp Kerala ticket.

WooCommerce Payments is an open-source plugin designed exclusively for WooCommerce stores. On the quest of giving our merchants the best possible experience, we write a lot of E2E tests to cover critical flows – this gives us confidence against regressions and allow us to iterate faster.
However, sometime last year we realised that due to the nature of E2E tests, our CI pipeline sometime ran for over 40 minutes! Since a green from CI was required for merging PRs, this ended up slowing us down instead.
Thus began the quest to speed up the CI pipeline – this talk will walk you through the different things we tried, how we reached those conclusions and how it ended up affecting the overall pipeline in the end.

Remote working / working from anywhere is becoming very popular these days. If you are unsure if this will work for you / not or you may be already doing it but feeling exhausted, this talk will leave you with simple tips which you can apply in daily life and end up doing more in less time.

Spending eight hours straight crouched behind a laptop is a recipe for back pain, not success. We generally end up sitting for long hours instead of taking short breaks. Taking short breaks may seem like a waste of time, especially when we’re working to beat a deadline. But in truth, taking regular breaks is one of the most effective tips for working remotely or in the office for various reasons. This talk will focus on similar tips to deliver work faster and more effectively.

Recently, an independent study projected that the WordPress Economy is worth USD$597 billion, and is projected to grow to USD$636 billion and beyond. There are millions of professionals who either use WordPress or rely on the open source platform to earn a living. Simultaneously, there are immense business opportunities in the market, with an appetite to only grow more. In this session, we bring together a group of serial WordPress entrepreneurs who are neck deep in the WordPress ecosystem. They talk about their wins, failures, learnings, and join an interesting and exciting discussion on the WordPress economy of 2023 – what lies ahead, what things to be aware of, what are the challenges and opportunities, and more.

The panel will have the following members: Ashutosh Gaur (moderator)- Founder, Riddleman FM., Akshat Choudhary – CEO Blogvault, M Asif Rahman – Founder WPDeveloper, Aravind Ajith – CEO AWSM Innovations, and Rajendra Zore – CMO RunCloud and CEO HostMyBlog

I have some insights and case studies from my experience teaching WordPress in the community and as part of my job that I’d like to share through my session.

The three key insights that I’d like to include in the session are:

1. First Principle Thinking.
2. Conceptual Scaffolding.
3. Callbacks.

The ideas of open-source are inherently authentic and why I feel everyone should contribute to the WordPress.org project.

Why?

Short explanation of how WordPress as open-source software is like several other open projects like languages and other technologies. Our lives are surrounded thanks to knowledge of the commons.
Hence open-source is authentic.

How?

If open-source or open systems are authentic and make up our lives, then participation in such projects can be considered as examples of similar to living fully.

Where?

Some teams at Make.wordpress.org
– Start your meetup, community

What you get

– Share your knowledge
– Teach someone, be their mentor
– Find your mentors
– Sense of belonging
– Sense of accomplishment (at least for me)

– How WordPress becomes slow
– Secrets in design to improve performance
– Caching and optimization strategies
– Helpful plugins to speedup sites
– Optimizing for global audience

Time: 11:30 AM, Venue: Chancellor Hall, IMA House Duration: Up to 2 hours

This is a session aimed at existing WordPress developers to onboard them into the world of building Gutenberg Blocks. The workshop covers the full lifecycle of creating a block. You begin by setting up your development environment and finish by creating your first block.

This is a workshop that needs prior sign ups. To attend, please sign up for the workshop after purchasing a WordCamp Kerala ticket.