Author: Meher Bala

Meher is the COO (Chief Operating Officer) at KDC and also a Codeable Expert. She is a front-end developer, specializing in WordPress. She takes care of building and maintaining premium websites for her clients and delivers them within tight deadlines. A strong communicator, and highly motivated, Meher is equipped with a sharp understanding of business. She has worked with multiple brands, and agencies to build their dream website for over 15+ years. Along with a creative flair for design and aesthetics, she also has an analytical bent of mind that makes her a distinguished talent from the crowd. Apart from her remarkable talent for understanding clients and delivering the best to her clients, she is also highly motivated, organized, and proactive.

In search of the best WordPress theme by Nirav Mehta

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About the Session:

Launching a WordPress site is easy. Yet, selecting a theme and plugins can be extremely challenging.

When Nirav set out to revamp his website, he wanted to “get it out the door soon”. Little did he know of the monster that lay ahead…

He wanted the best WordPress theme. So he reviewed and tried all the major themes out there – on WordPress, ThemeForest, popular theme shops.

After about 3 months work, he made his new site live. And he got 6x more customers. Bounce rate dropped, time on site improved, conversions improved – every metric saw a boom.

In this session, he will get answers to all these questions…

* Why he rejected 418 themes?
* What roadblocks he faced with a great looking theme?
* What took much longer than theme design? Don’t overlook this.
* Why his site looks good despite being copy-pasted from other sites?
* Why his theme designer friend told him that he does not need a theme…
* One neat trick that can save you hours if your marketing team is going to manage content

If you are a developer building websites for others or a business that owns a site; there are some golden lessons for you in here.

Know More About Nirav.

Becoming a Better Open Source Citizen (Despite Human Nature) by Andrea Middleton

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About the Session:

Open source has its own culture, with customs and expectations for interaction that are different from a lot of the behaviors that helped our species survive over the last few thousand years.

We’ll talk about how your brain might fight your behaving in transparent, altruistic, or collaborative ways, and how to reset some human nature “default settings” to make you more successful in the WordPress open source project.

Know More About Andrea.

Thank you WisdmLabs for being Bronze Sponsors

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WisdmLabs believes in using Web weaving Technologies for all our endeavors, as it helps us to create great user experiences and provides our client’s business with commercial scalability.

Our Vision is to create great applications through innovation for universal web access.

We aim to:

  • Leverage the power of web-based technology for our clients benefit
  • Build sustainable careers for all our colleagues
  • Create value for our overall community.

With 25 premium plugins and counting, we are a Products-focused services company. We are a team of quality-centric, target-oriented workaholics dealing in state-of-art business solutions and future-friendly web developments.

Learn more about Wisdmlabs.

Tackling creative block through stories Workshop by Fairy Dharawat & Dhara Kothari

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About the Workshop:

Stories make consuming information easy. Stories help to identify problems and solve them. In the workshop we will do fundamentals of stories, how to write a story based on the basics – beginning, middle and end.

Then we will make a story on the spot, and encourage the audience to tell it in front of an audience.

Writing and telling stories are two different things, and through this exercise, we will discuss how our brain functions when we do two seemingly identical exercises. The idea of the workshop is to make them think differently and be open to using a novel approach to solve problems as using a novel approach helps to reach a solution. Apart from writing and telling stories, we will play a game where the audience gets to pick up a card and create a story.

Workshop:

  1. An introduction to stories using examples of movies and analyzing them.
  2. Discussions on themes, characters and plots using stories.
  3. Doing a story together. Each participant adds one element to the story.
  4. How to tell a story.
    a) Using hands.
    b) Using flashbacks.
    c) Using chronology, sequences…

Exercises:

  1. Pick up cards, to make a story ( individually).
  2. Pick up cards, to make a story (in a group).
  3. Writing one line story on a favorite movie. Like Lion King.
  4. Look at your partner find something interesting, and make a story of it (eg a vintage hand watch, a cute button or a pen ( add a spin to it, like magical, lucky, etc))

Know About Fairy and Dhara.

We request all our attendees to bring their laptops along with them at the WordCamp, in order to make the most of the workshops.

Thank you AvidCoders for being Bronze Sponsors

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AvidCoders Private Limited is a WordPress based agency in Nashik, that provides end-to-end WordPress opportunities from strategy and planning to design and development, as well as full data migration, extensive API integration’s, scalability, performance and long-term guidance and maintenance.

We design, develop, and maintain responsive web experiences!

While AvidCoders is a new player in Indian WordPress Community, As a startup we’ve worked with renowned NGO’s in India, such as AajiChaGhar and Shantidoot Charitable Trust as well as Career building mega sites like ClearIAS.

“Our mission is to understand your goals and your business objectives, help you to become successful in the digital world”.

It’s up to us to make this world a better place for everyone to live in, so we decided to channel 10% of the AvidCoders Private Limited‘s income each month into a nonprofit organization and open source communities.

Find out more about us and how we work by stepping into our website. And get in touch!

We’d love to hear from you

Follow AvidCoders on Twitter, Facebook

Learn more about AvidCorders.

Thank you Sticker Mule for being In-Kind Sponsors

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Many thanks to Sticker Mule for sponsoring Stickers for WordCamp Mumbai 2018.

Stickers are so much fun. Sticker Mule is the easiest way to buy custom stickers. Thousands of people, startups, bloggers, developers, and companies buy our amazing stickers printed with the greatest care and sent in the fastest way possible. Shipping costs are free as well as offering immediate customer support. Promote your business or show off your support for your favorite open source project, non-profit cause, or startup with stickers. Sticker Mule is positioned as the favorite place to print your stickers across the network.

Learn more about Sticker Mule.

Thank you GoDaddy for being Global Silver Sponsor

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We are happy to announce that GoDaddy is our Global Silver Sponsors.

GoDaddy Pro is a free membership program for web developers, designers & agencies. It offers exclusive tools to help onboard, manage and maintain multiple clients and their sites fast and easy. With GoDaddy Pro tools, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage their products from a single dashboard. Additionally, your membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support and rewards for recommending GoDaddy to your clients.

You can use GoDaddy Pro with all of GoDaddy’s newly refreshed hosting products, including Managed WordPress, cPanel shared hosting, our brand new cloud product, and our virtual and dedicated solutions.

And, always get the best price on GoDaddy products with your “30% off list price” member benefit.

Learn more about GoDaddy Pro.

#WCMumbai ’18 Speaker Application Now Open

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Call For Speakers

It’s been little over a week that we announced WordCamp Mumbai 2018!

We are thrilled to announce that WordCamp Mumbai 2018 is officially accepting speaker applications.

But before you rush to submit, keep reading…

As you know, this is the fifth consecutive WordCamp organized by WordPress Mumbai Meetup group. For our fifth anniversary, we’re altering our track format.

We’d been following Single track mantra since last 4 Years. This year #WCMumbai team has decided to experiment something different. We’ve planned to go with the Multitrack which includes workshops, Group Discussion, General Talk and Product Demo.

We’d love to hear some newer speakers or host a different kind of session we are open to suggestions.

Apply Now

If you have any queries feel free to leave them in the comments below.

The WordCamp Mumbai Team
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