Harshal Limaye will help you with WordPress APIs

Harshal Limaye

Meet Harshal Limaye, Harshal is a Nagpur based Web Developer, blogger and a internet addict. He is using WordPress for building websites and web based applications for about 3 years now and loves to explore possibilities with WordPress and take it to the next level.

He will help you to know, How one can Excel in WordPress APIs, in his “WordPress APIs: Do more with less code.” talk.

WordPress comes bundled with many different APIs. These APIs are gateways which let you to interact, customize and extend the features of WordPress without disturbing any of existing WordPress files or functionality.

The goal of this session is to provide a gentle introduction to some of the most commonly used WordPress APIs that can be utilized by developers and site admins to make their life easy, How WordPress stores metadata inside the database, Adding, updating, retrieving and deleting the metadata information and finally he’ll take a look at the core WordPress code that drives the metadata API and how one can use it to create own custom meta tables to take your WordPress projects to the next level.

WordPress APIs: The APIs which Harshal be covering are as follows:

1. Plugin API – Hooks, Actions and Filters:
When beginners needs to perform a specific task what they usually do is they copy and paste a specific code snippet which they got from stackoverflow or from a random blog and paste it inside their functions.php file. However, most of them are unaware of the way that code snippet works. In this section, I’ll provide quick overview of What WordPress hooks are and How developers can utilize them to write more efficient code.

2. Shortcode API:
Shortcodes are one of the most simple and easy to use features in WordPress. In this section, I’ll cover, How users can create their own custom shortcodes which can be useful to insert variety of content into their WordPress website.

3. Dashboard Widget API:
This is one of the most overlooked features of WordPress. This can be very helpful, for branding or display custom information to users when he logs into his WordPress Dashboard. In this section, I’ll cover, how developers can utilize WordPress Dashboard widgets API to create custom WordPress dashboard widgets.

4. Options API:
One of the most popular API available in WordPress used to create, fetch, update, and delete options in a simple and standardized way. WP plugins, themes, and even WordPress itself, holds lot of data in form of options inside the database that matters to your WordPress website. Knowing how you can use or update these in a plugin or theme of very important. In this section, I’ll provide a quick overview of this API, which can be helpful to beginners to get started with this API.

5. Metadata API:
Metadata API is one of the primary reasons which make WordPress a powerful CMS. It allows the users to store custom fields inside WordPress database. This feature is widely used by plugins to store and update information.In this section, I will cover various ways of working with WordPress post meta data

Linkedin Profile: https://in.linkedin.com/in/harshal-limaye-a6b2479a

Golden support from weDevs, joins our Sponsors list

weDevs

weDevs is a WordPress based product company located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Started in 2012, now having 25+ free plugins with 350k+ downloads, we have customers from all over the world.

We have some amazing product lineups containing the most popular WP User Frontend, with 200k+ downloads, it’s one of the most used and feature rich frontend posting plugin.

WP Project Manager helps you and your team get organized by managing projects inside WordPress.

Dokan is the first of its kind, a multi-vendor marketplace solution built on top of WooCommerce. Now it’s as easy to start your own marketplace in minutes.

With the recent addition of WP ERP, for the first time, we have a full-fledged ERP system inside WordPress with HR, CRM and Accounting module. Small to medium businesses can manage their business/company with WP ERP.

WordPress for Startups by Hari Shanker

Hari Shanker R

WordPress is handy tool for startups and small businesses looking to quickly launch new media products. Hari Shanker will help you, on how One can start his own Startup on WordPress in his “WordPress for Startups” talk.

Hari Shanker is a passionate WordPress enthusiast, Hari is currently employed as a Happiness Engineer at Automattic (The company best known for WordPress.com & more).
Hari’s association with WordPress dates back to 2007 – when he first discovered it as a college student at Government Engineering College, Trivandrum.

Little did he realize that the association would grow into a lifelong passion! This exhorted Hari to pursue WordPress development and support as a career after college, as WordPress Project Manager for a startup, where he oversaw the design, development and deployment of nearly 50+ WordPress websites for diverse clients including Fortune 500 companies.

The passion for WordPress eventually led him to Automattic, where he currently engineers happiness for customers using WooCommerce – the eCommerce plugin for WordPress from Automattic, which powers 39% of all eCommerce stores. Even though Hari is familiar with WordPress theme and plugin development, his expertise lies in providing WordPress support & consulting, which also happens to be his day-job.

A seasoned public speaker, Hari has delivered several talks about WordPress, Blogging, Open Source Software at different venues including National Institute of Technology Calicut and at NASSCOM-supported events.

A runner-up of the 2011 Mindful Leadership by the University of Dayton, Ohio, Hari is also a Stringer with the national newspaper – The Hindu, where he contributes features on topics Technology, Startups and Youth, among others.

Glimpse on Hari Shanker’s talk: “WordPress for Startups”

India is currently undergoing an entrepreneurship boom of sorts – with special emphasis on Technology Startups. Any technology startup requires a set of powerful technology products – both as a tool to build the startup, and as a means to an end, to provide services to bring revenue to sustain the startup; something that only WordPress can achieve.

With its extensive presence (26% of the web is currently powered by WordPress), and an-ever growing community, not to mention its easy learning curve and extensibility, WordPress offers a melange of solutions for business-owners. The talk assumes a two-pronged approach; viz to explore diverse realms of offering WordPress services/setting up a WordPress agency and to use WordPress as a tool to build your company and/or your software tool. I intend to do the same through case studies of successful companies who have achieved this, to display the true power of WordPress, through an interactive session.

Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harishanker

Generous Support from DevriX – Joins the Bronze List

DevriX

DevriX is a distributed WordPress development agency based out of Bulgaria. Our company provides ongoing WordPress development and business consulting contracts, building SaaS applications, extensible plugins and frameworks, and software tools for the Web. Coming from the software engineering world, our team members have background in Java, PHP, Python and .NET development, as well as practical experience in performance and security management.

At DevriX we put focus on business growth and invest in our customers’ success. We work closely with our accounts on a monthly basis, increasing their profits by crafting scalable platforms and automated systems optimizing their internal processes, facilitating their marketing efforts and improving their UX on several levels. Our core team is passionate about Open Source and we contribute back to the WordPress community on a regular basis.

Introducing Sandeep Kelvadi – our First Speaker

Sandeep Kelvadi

Meet Sandeep Kelvadi, He will talk about “Website/Product Positioning – The Why, What and How?”

Sandeep is a marketing strategist at Pixelmattic a WordPress agency that crafts intelligent websites for smart businesses. He help clients navigate the digital landscape by helping them develop an online strategy for the website with the content at its core.

He is Co-founder at DreamNotion Innovations since 2010 where we developed their first product, a gamified social learning platform called XPlore, Wide-ranging experience in a dynamic, growth stage start-up company as a Manager for Sales & Marketing Operations designing and developing sales workflows on Salesforce CRM.

Sandeep also run’s Slidetap an app design studio under the DreamNotion umbrella, that aims to bridge the gap between technology and design by creating designs that are beautiful and practical.

He handled Customer Support & loyalty at various points, assisted in marketing campaigns and conducted product training for customers and staff.

Insight on Sandeep’s talk: “Website/Product Positioning – The Why, What and How?”

  • What is Positioning – It’s not what you do to a product, but what you do to the mind of the prospect.
  • Why is it important – Differentiating yourself from competition, standing out in a crowd, simplifies marketing/sales conundrums.
  • How do you position a company/product? – Choosing the right name, marketing tactics, case studies and looking at a WordPress specific examples.
  • How do you position yourself and your career? – How building a personal brand can help your career and business prospects.
  • How does positioning help a blogger, WordPress developer and a WordPress company

Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeepkelvadi

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Community Bar

Community Bar

At WordCamp Nashik, We are planning that every minute of the meetup should be interactive and worth learning new things!

Also its a good initiative to welcome other WordPress communities across India to be at one place, help others introducing to WordPress Meetup chapter.

1. A Nashikite who’s interested in attending WordPress Meetups, but recently relocated to other city like Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Nagpur etc. and if he/she is not aware, there’s already a Meetup group active, This activity might help him/her to get connected to right channel.

2. If a WordPress enthusiast, who is interested in starting a Meetup Chapter in his/her city, Representatives from different cities across India might help him/her to get started.

3. Many more spontaneous questions, which you can answer!

We are planning to have a desk called “Community Bar”, Where representatives from Cities who are already active organizing WordPress Meetups, can answer the questions, asked by the attendees.

We request representatives, from all cities across India, If you are interested to be part of the activity, please fill out the contact form below:

Community Bar

An honest Attempt from WordCamp Nashik team, to gear up towards “WordCamp India”

ManageWP – Our Bronze Sponsor have a nice message for you

ManageWP

मराठी
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हिंदी
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वर्डकॅम्प का उद्देश्य केवल वक्ताओं का भाषण, भेंटवस्तू यहां तक हि सीमित नही| लेकिन वर्डप्रेस समुदाय को एक साथ आने का सुनहरा अवसर है| अपने विचार और अनुभव दुसरो से शेयर करना, दुसरो के विचार और अनुभव जान लेना, नए वर्डप्रेस से जुडे दोस्त बनाना, इत्यादि है|

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English
Don’t you have better things to do that reading sponsor descriptions? We might as well give you some useful info since you’re here already 🙂

WordCamps are not about talks and swag (blasphemy!), but about getting the community together and sharing thoughts and experience. All those strangers might turn out to be your future business partners, mentors, employees, and even friends. So make sure you say hi to the people sitting next to you. That’s the WordPress way.

If you REALLY want to know about ManageWP and how it saves you time, check out https://managewp.com/ 🙂

Closing Call for Speakers – Volunteers

Last day to apply as Speaker or Volunteer
Wednesday, August 31st 2016 – Last day for Speaker – Volunteer form submissions

We’d like to Thank _/\_ everyone, for overwhelming response for Speaker – Volunteer submissions.

As we want to get started with the Speaker – Volunteer selection process, We’d like to announce the last date for submitting Speaker – Volunteer Applications.

If you have an interesting/inspiring talk, don’t hesitate to submit your Speaker Application here

If “Giving back to Community” is your motto, then this might be your interest!

We will stop accepting both Speaker and Volunteer Applications, Midnight (IST) Wednesday, August 31st 2016 onwards.

So Hurry! and grab the opportunity to become #WCNashik ka Aashiq