Panel Discussion: Gutenberg – The new WordPress

Everyone is quite muddled about the new WordPress 5.0 update as it will be coming with a brand new editor which is being called Gutenberg. It is a totally new editor for WordPress which will come with the WordPress 5.0 update.

To clear everything about it with the WordPress Peeps, WordCamp Udaipur will be having a panel discussion on the same.

The panel will comprise of experts from all divisions so that everyone can grasp the essence of WordPress from all point of views and opinions.

If you are too puzzled with the new WordPress update, make sure you attend this panel discussion. You will get all your queries and problems resolved and you too will be ready for the new big update of WordPress!

ResellerClub is our Lake Jai Samand Sponsor (Gold)

ResellerClub empowers and engages web pros through their multi-city web design and development summit known as ‘Ctrl+F5’, online knowledge-sharing webinars and sessions through ‘TechTalks by ResellerClub’ and our ResellerClub Blog which covers Web Design & Development trends and topics that web professionals need to know to run a great online business.

ResellerClub offers WordPress hosting along with other web hosting infrastructure that is optimized for WordPress including Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Cloud Hosting and also Cloud, VPS, and Dedicated Servers. They also offer a wide range of products and services to support everything a web professional requires for an efficient online business from email, productivity and web security solutions to a wide range of domains.

 

 

WPKube is our Lake Pichola Sponsor (Bronze)

WPKube is a popular WordPress resource site where you can find detailed guides, helpful tutorials, and other useful content to help you get most out of WordPress.

Founded by Devesh Sharma, WPKube has become one of the most popular resources for WordPress. Some of their most popular guides include How to start a WordPress blog, How to install WordPress, and how to create a membership site.

They also have a coupons section where you can find exclusive deals on WPEngine, SiteGround, and more.

Devika Sisodia – Empowering Self Expression with WordPress

Devika is a freelance writer, blogger, content developer, scriptwriter, poet and voice-over artist. She travels for peace and clicks photographs for memories. A dancer and an avid reader who’s managing every day’s time to do all the things that she loves.

About the session:

In the age of 140 characters and 24-hour stories, being an individual brand can be tedious. Unadulterated self-expression becomes a part of who we really are. Do we dare to reveal our true selves out there?

In this session, Devika will talk about the various avenues that explore individualism and how WordPress plays an important role in expressing your thoughts, ideas, and opinions to a global audience.

Since the social media is bursting with new ideas and exploring different domain, how do you carve your own path will be explored in the session.

Prathamesh Palve – Managing Customers The Right Way

 

Prathamesh Palve works as a Happiness Engineer with StoreApps.
He has been working on WordPress from 2009 since he started making websites. Before this, he has worked with CybroGeek as a Course Coordinator & also ran a small web development firm in Mumbai. He loves open source culture and also contributes by doing translations for many themes and plugins and is also a WPTV contributor.

About the Session:

Following points will be covered in the session-
1. Customer BHAGWAN HOTA HE
2. NEVER send template replies to a customer (Every Customer deserves personal attention)
3. Understand Customer queries properly.
4. Take time to replicate issues at your end.
5. Take responsibility ( Accept Mistakes, Be Polite, Request time to Fix)
6. “Converse” with your customers Because Communications is the only key to successful customer support.
7.It is more than okay to request a customer to explain issue in more detail.
8. If a ticket is in a different language than your official language, Kindly try to translate the ticket and try to understand what the customer has to say.
9. Take note of bug customer reports by making a small excel sheet and revert to them when that particular issue has been resolved.
10. If a customer asks about something which is not currently available with your product, return in a very polite way & make him feel he is heard & let him know you would surely think of it. It will surely make his day.

Prajyot Sharma- WordPress for Youth

Prajyot Sharma has been a hardcore follower of WordPress since his grade 9 and after last WordPress event, his fondness grew even more. He has dedicated his most of the time in promoting WordPress among young budding bloggers. He himself has emboldened to work on various platforms for developing web templates and heading a news blog.

About the Session:

Prajyot’s session is going to be about the project WordPress for Youth which is spreading WordPress as a culture among the young.

He is going to address the group about the pilot project, the students involved, the overall impact the local community and it’s success. He will also share the future plan along with the story of how everything came about for this journey.

Raj Nilayam – Why one should contribute to Open Source project like WordPress.

Raj Nilayam is a FOSS lover involved with many open source communities (co-organizer WordPress Noida Community). He is also a freelancer and currently work remotely as a Web Developer at Prontoux Inc.
For the past 3 years, he has been a WordPress enthusiast, developing websites, customizing themes. He loves to meet new people in the WordPress community and discover how together all can grow with the community as well.He enjoys playing with codes, and you can call him a budding entrepreneur too.
About the Session:
In this session, you will get to know about the various reasons for which developers actively keep contributing to Open Source Projects.
Raj will take you through various scenarios where contributing to Open Source Projects such as WordPress is helpful for personal growth and what are the factors that keep the contributors motivated towards contributing.
You will learn about numerous objectives of developers have for contributing to open source projects. Objectives such as-
  • To Improve the Code
  • To Gain Competitive Advantage
  • To Reduce Development Costs
  • To Support Open Source Values
  • To Promote Industry Standards
  • To Make the Software More Usable
  • To Further Your Career
  • To Give Back
  • To Have Fun
There will be a separate brief session about why should you contribute to WordPress. So, those who want to learn about the same will benefit the most from this session.
By the end of this session, you will be thorough with these points-
  • Why should one contribute?
  • What are the perks of contributing?
  • How to contribute?
  • Crystal clear with every aspect of contributing as there will be a Q&A session in the end.

MilesWeb is our Lake Fateh Sagar Sponsor (Silver)

MilesWeb is a rapidly growing web hosting company based in India offering the hosting solution to all types of websites and businesses. The company has recently rolled out public cloud hosting services that can automatically scale any web application in real-time.

Everything that a user expects from a real cloud platform like elastic compute, automatic vertical/horizontal scaling, server load balancer, container service, resource orchestration, high availability, pay for usage, DevOps automation, the marketplace with 1-click app deployment, self-provisioning access, etc. is offered with MilesWeb cloud hosting platform.

You can try their cloud services free for 30 days.

MilesWeb aims to help the small and medium-sized businesses to get online at an affordable cost easily. For such users, they offer website hosting plans that comprise of Free Domain .com or .in for the lifetime, Unlimited SSD Storage, Unlimited Bandwidth, Free SSL, Free Website Builder, cPanel control panel, etc. Everything that you need for a successful online presence is available from Rs 109/mo at MilesWeb.

WordPress developers who are managing the web hosting of their respective customers should check out MilesWeb’s reseller hosting plans. You get SSD disk space, unlimited bandwidth, payment gateway, Domain Reseller Account, etc. for Rs 290/mo.

WordCamp attendees who are looking out for highly rewarding affiliate program must take a look at MilesWeb affiliate program. You can quickly earn up to 50% commission per sale and a smart incentive just to join the affiliate program.

Nikunj Chauhan – Four simple steps of mastering the art and science of content marketing in 2018

Nikunj is an Interactive Strategist at KrishaWeb Technologies.  Having a keen interest in the Internet and Marketing introduced him to Google and SEO. He started his professional career as an SEO learning different aspects of digital marketing like content marketing, conversion optimization, inbound marketing for more than last 7 years.

You can find him surfing on laptop or mobile most of the time. But, while he is not in front of his laptop, you will either find him plugged in the earphones, exploring the unknown streets of India or on a cricket field or reading book.

About Session:

In this session, Nikunj will talk about the four most important steps of content marketing in new age digital marketing since digital content marketing is maturing and organizations are looking to invest more in the same.

During this session, you will learn the core importance of ‘Delivering right information at the right time in proper form and through the appropriate platform’.

He will also discuss the top 5 content marketing trends to watch out in 2018 including originality and trust factor of the content.

Anju Abhilash – How to handle difficult clients successfully as a freelancer?

Anju is a Content Developer who helps companies to build value and shape their brand by excellent content creation. She has been also a yardstick of software quality as QA, to increase the value of software product.

Anju has educated and discovered knowledge for more than six years by understanding it as a Software Trainer Specialist. Being in IT industry over a decade she acquires comprehensive knowledge in handling difficult clients. She enjoys being an IT professional and glad to be a sports fanatic.

About Session:

Being in IT industry for over a decade Anju knows impactful ways to connect more effectively with client and will be enlightening us on the various aspects of handling difficult clients in a conclusive win-win manner.
She will discuss practical and effective strategies to deal with such clients on the points of retaining them and develop a much stronger client and service provider bonding.
Anju will also discuss client communication balance, some specific tips and, techniques to help you execute and achieve effective results.

WordCamp Udaipur 2018 is over. Check out the next edition!