WordCamp Mumbai 2017

There is going to be a group discussion on Manual v/s Automated Testing in this year’s WordCamp Mumbai.

The importance of quality of your product is something that no one in the business can overlook and has to pay attention to in order to make your product the best in the market.

You will get to know the in and outs of testing through the experiences of some of the experienced testers of our community.

There is always some confusion among new WordPress users about WordPress.com and WordPress.org. So many questions!,

Are they different? Which is one is better? What should I choose? Which one is easier? This talk aims to answer these questions and more, and is aimed at both for beginners, and WordPress enthusiasts from different domains. In this talk, you will learn more about the benefits and opportunities available on both these platforms, and by the end of it, you will be able to make an informed decision on what is better for you.

There is going to be a group discussion on Manual v/s Automated Testing in this year’s WordCamp Mumbai.

The importance of quality of your product is something that no one in the business can overlook and has to pay attention to in order to make your product the best in the market.

You will get to know the in and outs of testing through the experiences of some of the experienced testers of our community.

There is going to be a group discussion on Manual v/s Automated Testing in this year’s WordCamp Mumbai.

The importance of quality of your product is something that no one in the business can overlook and has to pay attention to in order to make your product the best in the market.

You will get to know the in and outs of testing through the experiences of some of the experienced testers of our community.

There is going to be a group discussion on Manual v/s Automated Testing in this year’s WordCamp Mumbai.

The importance of quality of your product is something that no one in the business can overlook and has to pay attention to in order to make your product the best in the market.

You will get to know the in and outs of testing through the experiences of some of the experienced testers of our community.

Ever wonder how to go about creating your First Plugin? It’s simple.. Just do it!

If you have already built a plugin or about to make one, it always helps to do it the right way. In this session, Sandeep would be covering the aspects of standards and structure to built your plugin.

He would be discussing on how…

• To choose a correct plugin slug
• Avoid conflicts with other plugins
• Structure your plugin code
• Use Common Design Patterns
• To hook the correct way
• To Keep your plugin secure
• To use common build tools
• To use automated test tools

In her talk, Shailee will cover some critical conversations on our Customers, the way they think, the way they perceive what we deliver and their expectations, her n experiences through the journey and how we can make a difference in this relationship with these following points :

• Hear your Customer’s Inner Voice!
• My journey from being a Developer to a Business Person!
• Challenges faced – and how I did it Wrong & Right.
• How we can influence our Customer’s behavior!
• Understanding Symptoms and Patterns!

In this session Makarand would like to help language translators understand common mistakes happening while translating WordPress into any Indian language.

Previously Makarand attended Global translation Day first and Global translation Day second. On the occasion of Global translation Day First he gathered people & started to contribute into polyglot community and gave efforts to make Marathi translation 100%.

On Global translation Day 2 many new contributors contributing to Marathi localisation and Makarand was working as GTE, he saw few common mistakes new translators doing. GTE can reject strings but can’t explain reason to reject. There was many suggestion coming for one single string, so rejection ratio was high. Efforts of new contributors was wasted. Some translation approved by GTE’s which still needs improvement. So final translated product is not that much perfect to be used by end user.

Makarand also collected data from GTE of other languages and he found few common mistakes which every translator does. Now WordPress is available in 4 Indian languages, but popular plugins and themes are still not translated. He will explain how to avoid these common mistakes to reduce efforts and make better translation.

For a Developer, you can ask them to write 1000 lines of code, they will do it instantly. You ask them to write a one-pager on their accomplishments or their journey, they will take an eternity to write that. Ask a Developer about WordPress & they will tell you 100 things unique which they have done with it. Ask them to write down 10 of those things, and they will try to hide from you from that day.

We live in a virtual world. It’s important for everybody to connect, especially for Developers.

If Development is your strength, then Marketing & Content Writing can only magnify that strength. For anyone, it’s important to open new avenues & that’s where Developers lack behind.

Whether you’re a Freelancer or an Agency, this session will take you through some tips that will help you maximize your reach & take it to a larger audience.

WordPress, as we all know, has brilliant community and commercial support. With so many resources available, users tend to go overboard with how they use their WordPress setup. Due to this, they run into problems like Performance slowdowns, timeouts at their hosting provider.

Pratik has 12 years of experience in the Hosting industry and knows what are the kind of limitations hosting providers implement on their servers. He has insight on what works on these servers and what does not. He is looking to share this experience with the all of us and share the tricks that work with most of the hosting providers. These tweaks should help you to get maximum performance from your current package without spending anything on resources or additional upgrades or services.

WordPress is awesome – and plugins make it even better.

But when you have to build and manage plugins with more than 100,000 active installs, you hit roadblocks.

In this talk Tarun will share his experiences in situations like:

• How a timeout error turned out to be a big loophole in the plugin?
• How we had to break best-practices to tackle CPU intensive database queries?
• How we brought pages that took 3 minutes to load – down to under 20 seconds?
• How shared hosting environments forced us to rewrite our plugin?

The talk is focused around database optimization, WooCommerce and performance. It’s based on real-life problems we faced in our Smart Manager, Smart Coupons, Smart Reporter, Icegram and other plugins. It’s a technical talk, but the lessons are useful in designing any high-performance solution around WordPress.

The session will highlight common mistakes PHP programmers often make when they join the WordPress ecosystem.

There are few PHP functions for which WordPress has its API. One common case is use of PHP’s curl() function instead of using wp_remote_*() functions.

Using WordPress equivalent has its benefits.

Rahul will be highlighting such mistakes, and what benefits WordPress alternatives offers.

He hopes this will help PHP developers become better WordPress developers.

WordPress is in inherently designed to be multi-lingual, given its effort to localise its meta information and documentation as well as providing a complete framework for developers to localise their extensions. However, ironically, it is not able to handle multiple language content in a single installation. To achieve this, a number of plugins are available which uses different approach to manage translations.

This talk reviews one of these plugins, Polylang, which has gained a lot of adepts for its ability to manage translations following the WordPress core approach to content management.

The session will give a brief introduction on a what is a multi-lingual website, and then walk though the various steps required to create a multi-lingual content site using the Polylang plugin

Time is money and Unfortunately we have only 24 hrs/day, out of which everyone have some ‘x’ no of Working hours. Being a WordPress Developer/System Admin you need to manage time for Development, Deployment & Management of your WP sites. So, there is a scope of optimizing your time which can save a small bits of your time from repeatable task.

With us, Anand will talk about one such tool, WP-CLI – a command line interface for WordPress. It will help us achieve our goal for time optimization. Sole motto of this tool is to create a way by which anything that is possible via wp-admin should be possible via CLI (Command Line) but through lesser clicks. Moreover, he will also talk about recent inclusion of the tool as the official command line tool for WordPress and further growth of tool & community together.

His talks’ basic out-line will be as follows :

• Introduction
• What is CLI & WP-CLI ?
• Basic Syntax Overview
• General Use full Commands
• Practical Use cases for Different Roles

Communication is an important tool to get things done. Where I come from, there’s a saying – those who can speak, they can sell, thus they can survive. While this phrase is eons old, it’s relevant as ever not yet jaded. So when we come to business writing, why is it so important? Why do we need to hone our writing skill ? In an age of blowing our trumpet, thanks to social media, business writing spills over to your company’s Facebook pages and twitter accounts as well. So in the age of digital revolution, it’s important to know how to play with style and structure across different platforms to get desired results – engagement.

Why business writing is important?
1) It saves time and gets things done.
2) Email etiquettes. How to generate response?
a) By writing in a way the reader responds – Being polite and to the point – the writers I’ve written to have responded 🙂
b) It’s a mixture of persuasion, right words, sentence structure and of course grammar!
3) Using words which help to put across your point. Avoiding jargon. Sharing the list.
4) A blend of longer and shorter sentences. How to use them.
5) Clearly stating your intent as soon as possible.
6) Changing language style for email, and social media (engagement)

Do you love WordPress?

Want to pitch in and help out?

Not sure how?

It doesn’t matter if you’re a designer, a developer, a translator, or just someone that uses WordPress on your own, everybody is welcome to contribute to WordPress. 🙂

We all aspire for better life.

Some people want to start on their own – launch a plugin, theme or SaaS… Some want to build a consulting business around WordPress. Many want to be great developers. Most want to become great at whatever they’re doing.

But the path to greatness and fulfillment is full of challenges. So what could keep you going strong?

Sometimes you wonder, if there is a pot of gold at the end of your rainbow… Will you succeed? Is it all worth it?

Join Nirav in this quick retelling of some of his near-fatal adventures in entrepreneurship and technology. Listen to his journey of chasing aspirations and tough lessons.

Did he discover his pot of gold? Would he recommend you go down the path he took?

Find the answers. Do attend this one!

In this talk, Sudar will talk about the various developer tools that he uses to increase his productivity as a WordPress developer. Sudar has been developing for WordPress for more than half a decade and over a period of time he has found various developer tools that helps him to increase his productivity.

This will be a talk more about his experience using these tools and detailing what worked and what didn’t work rather than just talking about these tools and giving an introduction.

Tools that he will be covering are the following:

• wp-cli – To efficiently interact with WordPress admin, even over SSH
• phpcs – To quickly catch any WordPress formatting or coding errors
• xDebug – To debug performance and other code issues
• vagrant – To setup proper local development setup
• phpUnit – To run Unit tests
• IDE – PhpStorm and Vim

There is going to be a group discussion on Manual v/s Automated Testing in this year’s WordCamp Mumbai.

The importance of quality of your product is something that no one in the business can overlook and has to pay attention to in order to make your product the best in the market.

You will get to know the in and outs of testing through the experiences of some of the experienced testers of our community.

One of the greatest strengths of WordPress is its simplicity. It is easy to install, start & keep publishing new content. No wonder it commands almost 27.5% of the web! However that is where most of the site owners stop thinking about WordPress.

And then, one day, you open browser, enter your URL and there is “Internal Server Error”! (HTTP 500).

Do you know someone in this situation? OR perhaps encountered it yourself?

Most of the times, security doesn’t figure out in discussion before, because site owner, just getting started with building an audience, thinks, “He/she is not important enough” to hack.

OR maybe they followed hardening instructions word-by-word and were still hacked!

(Trust me he did that, and was still hacked)

In this talk, Bhushan will share some of his learning in this area. He will cover some such common myths around security. He will also briefly cover 3 common types of hacks/injections along with some free/open source tools you can use to identify, rectify and stay safe.

In summary, Bhushan will walk you through some learning and do’s and don’ts in keeping site secure.

Being productive is a choice, but most of us see it as a have to, if we aren’t productive company will throw us out. Or as a should, if we are not productive, we will not grow. All is true, but the moment have to and should come, the choice is gone for a toss, and we are in a driven state of mind. And if anything goes wrong, we are ready with our fingers to point at somebody else.

Basically choice comes from responsibility, but most of us hear Blame in background when the word responsibility fall on our ear. Either we are avoiding blame or taking blame. Zero responsibility, hence zero choice, henceforth all the have to’s and should.

Leaving productivity to chance not choice.

What would happen if you don’t ‘have to’ be productive; instead you could choose your productivity? Would you choose low productivity or high productivity? Most of us want to increase our productivity, we know what stops us, we know how to improve, but we still do not know why we are still under productive. Do you want to know what stops you from being 100% productive in work and life?

I will discuss this and many more dimensions of how Chance makes us powerless and Choice can Empower us, in the session.

Nagesh traces his journey in Digital Media and WordPress which began with his community “Radio” website back in 2007. This multimedia site carried audio and video content related to the culture and works of Gaud Saraswats (GSBs) community to which he belongs.

The project began with zero investment and gave all the lessons in blogging, site analytics, remote team and content management and social media marketing. The success of the website as a community medium was widely covered by mainstream media including DNA, New Indian Express and CNN IBN prime time among the national media, and many more local publications too in about a year of it going live.

The overall experience added weight to Nagesh’s resume and gave good career breaks in digital media. Eventually, WordPress and all the knowledge gained became the basis of his freelance venture after a successful spell of corporate jobs.

By using WordPress.com and WordPress.org , Nagesh believes there are remarkable possibilities for anyone to build his or her own medium, and his career too! All this considering the following facts:

1. The community radio site began with Zero investment and then grew gradually to a better platform seamlessly when we had a bit of money
2. The site began with zero knowledge of programming.
3. The site grew along with the user’s gradual growth in awareness and knowledge of WordPress.org.

Nagesh hopes his story will help users create their own site beginning with the free WordPress.com platform if necessary, and then grow towards a self-hosted WordPress website when they gain enough experience running the site.

Apart from the joy of building their own site, this exercise can help build a self-employed career or a dream job where today digital media skills are in much demand.