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Meet our next speaker Sathish Kumar who’ll be talking about Anatomy of Accessible forms

Posted on November 17, 2019 November 16, 2019 by Nithin

Meet Sathish Kumar our next speaker at WordCamp Kochi 2019

Sathish is a Senior Accessibility Consultant working at Deque Software, Hyderabad. He’s a passionate accessibility evangelist spreading awareness of inclusivity and accessibility across the globe.

His session on WordCamp Kochi will focus on the topic – Anatomy of Accessible forms

Forms are the gateway to collect user data. If they are not accessible or usable to many, then users would leave our sites. Sathish will discuss further about the need for accessible forms, and about users that are affected by such forms. Additionally, Satish will also talk in detail about the appendages of accessible forms, as well as accessibility in WordPress, overall.

In his free time, you’ll find Sathish reading, writing, blogging, listening to music, and beat-boxing. He’s an author and editor at digitala11y.com, a blog dedicated to imparting knowledge on digital accessibility.

Have you bought the tickets for WordCamp Kochi yet? Grab your tickets to attend this wonderful session by Sathish Kumar.

Imran Sayed will conduct a WorkShop on Building a WordPress Site in React

Posted on November 17, 2019 November 17, 2019 by Nithin

One of our highlights with WordCamp Kochi 2019 is that we have a set of exciting hands-on workshops this year. We are super-stoked to announce our first workshop for WordCamp Kochi 2019 – by none other than Imran Sayed!

Imran is a Web Engineer at rtCamp. He is also a WordCamp Speaker, Meetup Organizer, and a regular contributor to the open-source community. He possesses a rich experience in GraphQL, Node, React and Laravel.

He is also the author of the popular Twenty Nineteen WordPress theme ported over to Frontity in React. Apart from this, Imran has a great passion for teaching and sharing knowledge. You can check out his YouTube channel, where he teaches Programming. As a hobby, Imran likes to write on Medium, and has a passion for photography.

Imran will be taking a workshop on – Building a WordPress Site in React in 30 Min – with Frontity

As per Google trends, there has been a rise in the popularity of Headless CMS. On a parallel note, JavaScript is on the top place amongst different programming, scripting, and markup languages.

There are often moments when we all want to have is a simple, fast and performant blogging website with modern frameworks. However, we tend to give up because of the learning curve.

Do we need to have a core technical knowledge to build a simple yet modern WordPress website? Nowadays, there are free open source frameworks based in JavaScript like Frontity which can help us build a headless WordPress site using React, even if we are not very familiar with this JavaScript library.

Imran will be taking an hour-long workshop on the same to help build a WordPress website in React within 30 mins. Which you can benefit from features like Server Side Rendering, 100% Lighthouse score, or code splitting.

We request all our attendees to bring their laptops along with NPM/node.js installed in them at the WordCamp, in order to make the most of Imran’s workshops. Here’s how you can do it: https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm

Are you excited for WordCamp Kochi? Don’t miss this chance to listen to this amazing talk from Imran, and to learn all about building websites with Headless WordPress using React and Frontify. Book your tickets at the earliest!

Shifa Shaji will talk about WordPress REST API Integrations

Posted on November 16, 2019 November 16, 2019 by Nithin

Meet Shifa Shaji – who is our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2019. Shifa started her career as a PHP developer, and eventually, got hooked to the world of WordPress. Her career in WordPress started after joining Appmaker.xyz. At Appmaker, she specializes in WordPress plugin development.

Shifa will be presenting a lightning session on the topic – WordPress REST API Integration

Shifa thinks WordCamp Kochi is the right event to share with the community about what she loves to do and to help them know how WordPress offers endless possibilities. Through her topic, she’ll be sharing a brief overview of what the REST API is, why it’s useful, along with common API Request, and some quick live examples.

Have you bought the tickets for WordCamp Kochi yet? Grab your tickets to attend this wonderful talk, and to learn about REST APIs in WordPress!

Introducing Rohan Sadanandan who will talk about Internationalization and Localization

Posted on November 16, 2019 November 16, 2019 by Nithin

Rohan Sadanandan is our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2019.

Rohan works for OnTheGoSystems( the company behind WPML & Toolset) as WordPress Technical Support Engineer for the WPML plugin. He has more than ten years of experience in WordPress. Prior to joining OnTheGoSystems, Rohan was working as a PHP Web Developer & has developed hundreds of sites with WordPress over a span of 10 years. He has also developed several custom themes and plugins in WordPress. He loves to experiment with WordPress and has a passion to contribute to the WordPress community.

Rohan will be talking at WordCamp Kochi, on the topic – Internationalization & Localization

His talk will cover the importance of Internationalization in WordPress, why it’s essential for your themes, and plugins. His session will also help with having a better idea on how to make your themes and plugins translatable, with practical tips, as well as real code samples.

Are you excited about WordCamp Kochi 2019? Don’t miss this opportunity to attend this event to listen to amazing talks like this one. You also get to meet WordPress professionals from all walks of life.

Book your tickets at the earliest!