WordCamp Mumbai 2017

Introducing our next speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Tarun Parswani.

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.

About Tarun Parswani

Tarun is a senior developer with StoreApps, responsible for Smart Manager, Smart Reporter and other plugins. He is a data nerd and loves playing with SQL – and No-SQL!

He has solved some of the most challenging optimization problems for StoreApps customers. He surely has quite a few tricks building high performance WordPress plugins up his sleeve!

You can tweet him @ParswaniTarun

Introducing our next speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Rahul Bansal.

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.

About Rahul Bansal

Rahul is the founder and CEO of rtCamp – the only WordPress.com VIP Partner from Asia.

His WordPress journey began in 2007 when he was looking for ways to customize his blog. Later on, he moved from professional blogging, freelancing to starting rtCamp in 2009.

At work, Rahul plays multiple roles, switching between sysadmin (his favorite), to a salesman and everything else company demands from him.

Over the years, Rahul has contributed to the WordPress community in different ways as a WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, polyglot, theme/plugins developer.

Outside of WordPress, he loves spending time with his son and is a self-proclaimed foodie.

You can tweet him @rahul286

Introducing our next speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Aurovrata Venet.

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.

About Aurovrata Venet

Aurovrata is highly motivated by problem solving task involving new concept and methods. Very good with numbers and making sense of interconnected data. A research background in Astrophysics has given him problem solving tools as well as rationalisation methods that have been highly successful at solving problems may it be in the Financial banking world or the European Space Agency.

He quit his corporate job 5 years ago to start a small consultancy company that concentrates on Small & Medium Enterprises, helping his clients achieve excellence in business strategy and deployment of IT in the business. He uses WordPress in many of his projects to leverage its CMS functionality.

He aspires to serve a resurgent India in the belief that she alone has the depth of awareness to lead humanity towards a new consciousness, united in all its diversity.

You can tweet him @aurovrata

Introducing our next speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Anand Thakkar.

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

About Anand Thakkar

Anand Thakkar is a Team Leader working with Hidden Brains Infotech Pvt. Ltd. An Ahmedabad based Web & Mobile Apps Development Company.

He is associated with WordPress development from last 6 years. He even started his career as a WordPress Developer and now works on multiple Web & Mobile technologies. Apart from WordPress Development, he holds great command over Core php, Codeignator, CakePHP, Angular JS too.

Anand also holds a Zend Certification for php 5.3.

Anand is a traveler. He travels to different destinations on the name conferences. 😉 He simply looks for a reason to get away and explore a new city. Apart from traveling, he likes to watch movies and is a big time foodie. It is quite possible that you may encounter him on a food stall next to WordCamp.

You can tweet him @anthakkar08

Introducing our next speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Fairy Dharawat.

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)

About Fairy Dharawat

Fairy Dharawat is a writer by profession who loves to discuss about the technicalities of stories and how to write them. She’s also a professional blogger who tells stories through workshops she conducts.

She currently likes a lot of people since many sweet souls have lent her books. And she has shared her treasured books as well. Her best is 24 books in a year, which she intends to break soon. Also, an unread book is a sad story, so read. If you want to know her list of best books or want to know how to write better, then come to the Mumbai WordCamp this year, and she will most probably tell you to read the books YOU like, and then she will talk some more. So come and say hi to her, she says hi back too 🙂

You can tweet her @verbaldetonator

Introducing our next speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Rocío Valdivia.

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. 🙂

About Rocío Valdivia

Rocío Valdivia is Community Wrangler at Automattic for WordCamp Central. Spanish web developer that loves WordPress, Open Source, technology, travelling and personal challenges.

WordPress & BuddyPress specialist since 2009, validator of the Spanish translation team at GlotPress, co-organizer of three WordCamps Seville and WordCamp Europe 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Co-author of “WordPress para Dummies” published in November 2012 and the first Spanish speaker at WordCamp Europe 2013 and 2014.

You can tweet her @rociovaldi