WordCamp Kochi 2018

As much as 83% of Indians are unemployed; among them there are several literates that prefer entrepreneurship as their field of interest. However, nearly 25% of them fail for the simple reason that either they lack innovation or the way to reach market. Ashutosh’s talk is aimed primarily at WordPress beginners and marketers to help them understand the basic strategies that will benefit them enter, flow and rise in the CORRECT market with the means of Social media, innovation, and correct content using WordPress. His session will also shed some light on how this amazing platform is self sustaining and innovative enough to make your blog/website grow.

Further, his aim in this session is to share his journey, and how, with time, he developed the maturity of reach the correct audience, and to brand his venture. He hopes to enlighten his listeners to NOT make the same mistakes that he made while attempting to reach out to correct audience. He will also share his journey about how he boosted his user count from thousands to lakhs in 4 months. His talk will rather be an interactive session, that will attempt to bring a sense of marketing “out of the box” in the minds of the listeners, and a smile of confidence in their faces. As an entrepreneur, he wishes to give back to this amazing community, and help them in any way he can.

His topic will cover about the power of WordPress in an enterprise level. He will talk about, flexibility & editorial workflows for publishers with WordPress. He will also delve into capabilities and management for large teams, and will share more details about guiding enterprise businesses, online publishers, and eCommerce stores towards all-around web solutions using WordPress.

WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform on the web and is a major eCommerce platform based on WordPress. Many businesses use WordPress and WooCommerce to manage their online presence. However, many store owners use other applications to manage their business, and often have no integration between these offline and online applications. In this session, he’ll demonstrate how you can use WordPress and WooCommerce REST APIs to seamlessly integrate together. As an example, Saleeh will show how to integrate a Telegram bot/Google Assistant with your WooCommerce-powered eCommerce store, and get notifications on new orders and updates. Various features like list all your orders, listing products, displaying order Summary, using webhooks to receive instant notifications of new WooCommerce orders, and a lot more can be achieved using such integrations.

His session aims to introduce PWA fundamentals like ‘manifest’ and ‘service worker’ in an easy-to-understand language, with a demo of what a PWA experience looks like. He will also discuss some future possibilities of PWA. With the knowledge and the tools, users will be able to implement PWA features on their websites, right away.

Over the last year, Jose (along with his friend Arun) has been working on a plugin to bring PWA features to WordPress named SuperPWA(available on WordPress.org).  In his session, he will also share his experience, and lessons learned from working on the plugin, and on building a community around it.

Gutenberg is one of the most important changes coming up in the WordPress ecosystem. It replaces the existing TinyMCE editor, and gives a much needed face-lift to the content editing experience in WordPress.

In their session, Gaurav will share their experiences with adding support for Gutenberg-specific features to one of their existing themes, and will be sharing tips on how to make your theme Gutenberg friendly.

His talk will introduce the audience to Gutenberg, its history and its present state. Additionally, he will do a deep dive into the progress of Gutenberg, all its features, and all the possibilities it offers to developers.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg – there’s more to Gutenberg that meets the eye, and major changes are planned in upcoming phases. Hardeep will also delve into the upcoming phases of Gutenberg (especially Phase 2), and will share more details on how people are doing amazing projects with the same.

Content marketing is a wide topic which requires nuanced discussion, but when it’s simply put, it’s about adapting your write up to create an engaging reading experience which helps you to generate leads and sales.

Fairy will try to define what is content, and how to come up with ideas to write and market them. She will also delve deeper on how to make your content interesting and engaging, with best examples of Content Marketing, and resources to learn.

His talk will cover more about conversational intelligence (or chatbots as we colloquially call this) which is changing the way businesses around the globe are interacting with the customers.

Govind will also draw your attention on how chatbots are reducing human workflow on support centres, and how it’s going to be a common aggressive marketing initiatives down the road. Briefing some interesting facts and thoughts about Chatbots, its history, few tools, couple of design principles and a demo of creating a MVP chatbot.

WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin used to create online stores with powerful features that come straight out of the box. Within the short span of time, WooCommerce became the most powerful eCommerce platform powers over 28% of all online stores.

She’ll be sharing, and  discussing the benefits of WooCommerce and how can it be beneficial for anyone who wants to start selling their products from their WordPress website. Also about its key features like Shipping, taxes and payment gateways.

In his talk, he’ll be covering his blogging experience which roots more than 10 years of his experience, to help young, and upcoming bloggers to contribute, and be a successful blogger. Mani will be sharing his observation on how blogging helped him with making a career, and how it could be evolved more from a modest blog to a helpful resource for many.