Sessions

  • Building and nurturing a local open-source community

    Aditya will give us a quick grasp about the importance of local open source communities, meetups, and how regular meetups help with building up a strong community.

  • Local WordPress Development – What, Why and How

    Today, there are many options to set up a local WordPress development environment. In her session, she’ll be talking on what are the popular options available/used. She will also share more about why should one use a particular environment, and will give all attendees a brief on how to set up your local WordPress environment, and to use it effectively.

  • What Is WordPress and How to get started with it

    The topic is to discuss all that WordPress is about. The session is planned as an introduction to WordPress and is aimed at beginners. He will talk about WordPress as a Website development tool, and will share more details on what WordPress can be used for, along with companies that are using WordPress around the globe, Buy attending this session, one can learn how to start with WordPress & get a Quick introductions to the various features of WordPress, including Themes and Plugins.

  • Building a WordPress Agency

    Through his session, Ajay will talk about his 12 years of experience working with WordPress. He will share his story: On how he started working with WordPress, and what made him stay with WordPress. He will also talk about how he formed an agency, and worked with his first client. He will also share how to make the right choices within WordPress (be it your WordPress project, or an agency), and why WordPress is here to stay.

  • 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.

  • Headless WordPress with React

    Headless WordPress means using WordPress only for its backend and building the frontend in any other framework/language that can fetch JSON Response that WordPress spits out.

    In his session, Kumar will be looking to cover how WordPress can be used as a headless CMS and how to pair it with React on the frontend with some tips about the best deployment and git workflow. He’ll also explain why splitting frontend and backend can be a good idea, along with some examples from many gists and GitHub boilerplate code to start playing with WordPress REST API with React Hooks.

  • Podcasting with WordPress

    Podcasts (fully contextual and downloadable audio file that anyone can listen to at any time – either via a podcast app, website or smart-speaker) are getting popular. In his session, Gaurav will give all attendees an introduction to Podcasts, and the world of podcasting. He will provide guidelines on how to set up a podcast, and will talk about the tools required for publishing one. He will also share about how to start a podcast from scratch, along with a quick live demo.

  • 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.

  • Build Fast WordPress Site In React In 30 Mins – With Frontity

    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.

  • Website Optimization – The Right Way

    WordPress today powers around 30% of the internet. That’s a huge piece of the pie and a perfect place to scout for opportunities for new and experienced developers alike. In his talk, Aditya will talk about solutions for several people who face problems with the slow speed of their WordPress website.

  • 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.

  • Remote Work, WordPress & Life

    Remote work has been a trending way of working in the past few years. People and companies always talk about the excitement and freedom of remote working. But there are few things to be considered while working remotely. He will be sharing his experiences on work schedules, time management, technical glitches, overworking, burning out, eating and sleeping while he works on WordPress in his daily life.

  • Building Blocks for Gutenberg

    In his workshop, you will learn how to build custom Gutenberg WordPress editor blocks for your themes and plugins. After participating in this workshop, you will get a good idea on:

    1. How to create a Gutenberg block.
    2. How to make your theme/plugin Gutenberg compatible.

  • How better performing websites can help save the planet

    The web has a dirty secret — its carbon footprint is larger than that of global air travel. The immense energy consumed by the Internet from non-renewable sources makes it the largest coal-fired machine on earth. Mozilla’s 2018 Internet Health Report highlighted this growing problem and stated that sustainability should be a bigger priority for the industry. Jack will provide practical steps to reduce the environmental impact of our work and promote a better future.

  • Contributing to the WordPress mobile apps

    Mobile devices provide an extraordinary opportunity to deliver a superior mobile experience to every user, particularly around accessibility and offline/poor connectivity support.

    WordPress Mobile Apps are developed as open-source projects. They leverage the opportunity to bring the best WordPress experience, on the road, at home, or practically anywhere – on your fingertips, with a smartphone running official WordPress apps. Her talk is revolves around the development of WordPress Mobile Apps, and will contain first-hand information on the way her team develops and tests them to make sure they provide an optimal experience for all users. Moreover, Anitaa will also be talking about how anyone in the WordPress community, can contribute to making WordPress mobile apps better, by either coding, testing, contributing designs, or even creating/maintaining documentation.

  • DevOps & Open Source: Marriage made in Heaven

    In his talk, he’ll be covering different stages of DevOps like SCM, CI/CD, Configuration Management, Monitoring, Alerting etc and open source options available for the same.

  • Human Computer interaction 101

    His topic is based on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and its connection to modern design. HCI is the study of the interaction between people and computer-based systems which takes into consideration the physical, psychological and theoretical aspects of this process.

  • Let Amazon Alexa talk about your WordPress Content

    The growth rate of smart speakers is faster than any device since the smartphone. In his session will have a demo of Using Alexa with WordPress Blog. Will go through how-to’s, Amazon Polly, and other options.