July 1, 2017 — At every WordCamp there are many bloggers who attend and wonder, what exactly is the future of blogging. One future that can be imaged is the role of a Community Manager.

The role of a community manager is not very clear at times. They are responsible for but not dictators of the communities they manage. There are all kinds of people issues that come up and questions of security, access, control etc.

Ramya Pandya talks about how these communities collaborate merging communities or even new communities being created at WordCamp Mumbai.

July 1, 2017 — WooCommerce is a very powerful plugin. But businesses who build online stores using it face problems when the number of people accessing the store increases.

Rahul Bansal will tell us about specific techniques which can be used to serve huge number of users efficiently. You’ll be able to apply many of his recommendations to other WordPress sites as well, where logged-in users make a bulk of traffic.

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June 30, 2017 — The user roles and capabilities API is one of the most powerful APIs in WordPress. With it you can allow, deny, and customise access to features in WordPress to a fine grained level. In this presentation, I’ll talk through the basics and go on to explain some of the more interesting and advanced use cases of working with roles and capabilities.

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June 30, 2017 — CSS Grid is now live in all major browsers, and with it everything we know about web layouts changes! Imagine drawing a grid in the browser and placing content in one or any number of cells without having to change the HTML or source order. And imagine changing that grid on the fly using media queries or JavaScript while keeping the HTML markup clean and accessible. That’s what CSS Grid does, and that’s why you should be using it today.
The CSS Grid Layout Module introduces a native CSS grid system, provided at the viewport level, that achieves what CSS frameworks and popular grid systems could only dream about: Responsive, flexible, pure CSS grid layouts, independent of document source order, that allow us to treat the browser as a true design and layout surface.
In this talk you’ll get an intro to CSS Grid and learn how it changes pretty much everything when it comes to layouts on the web. Through examples, code snippets, and practical demos you’ll learn how to use CSS Grid in a theme for modern responsive layouts, and you’ll also learn how to handle older browsers without Grid support in a clean and straight-forward way.
CSS Grid is here, and you can start using it today. This talk shows you how to do it right.

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June 30, 2017 — Did you ever think that working with WordPress is something that only developers and tech-savvy people can do?
Are you convinced that your being a newbie on WordPress won’t allow you to help people?

In this talk I’ll be sharing my experience on how I started working for a WordPress start-up; how I was struggling with my own impostor syndrome all the time, but still succeeded helping people and answering their technical questions.
In a few months, I will be celebrating my second year with WP Media. I don’t recognise anymore that Alice who was so scared of answering tickets on HelpScout.
This is the beginning of my journey from not understanding customers’ questions to getting my first “Great” ratings on HelpScout.

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June 30, 2017 — Humor often gives us perspective. A lot of things that are difficult to convey can be done through humor. WordPress professional and fans all over write a lot. You could be a blogger, working on support, a developer or a CEO. Many of you will acknowledge that using humor is very important in your writing.

June 30, 2017 — Web designing skills are easier to learn than to sell, is what one could say. A lot of people struggle to sell their skills. Learn from insights Kshitij will offer about how to sell your web designing skills in the Indian context.

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June 30, 2017 — WordPress has more than 50,000 public plugins. Should you build the next one? Will it be worthwhile maintaining it over the next five years? How will people discover your plugin? What activities can suck you away from building great plugins? How do you land up with great reviews for your plugins? Does it make sense to listen to customer feedback? How do you run a business around WordPress plugins and make money?

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June 30, 2017 — 2014年にWordPressでブログ記事を書き始め、それまで月間1000PVほどだったWebサイトが1年程で10万PVを超えるようになりました。 仕事に育児に家事にとてんやわんやの毎日、記事作成に時間を割けず月に2〜3記事しか更新できていませんが、限られたリソースでもアクセス（とモチベーション）を維持するために私が工夫していることをお話します。

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June 30, 2017 — 去年の暮れに Capital P という WordPress 専門メディアを立ち上げました。メンバーは高橋文樹、西川伸一、宮内隆行の3名です。このメディアの誕生は WordCamp US へ行った際に感じた「なぜ世界で3番目に大きい WordCamp が開催される日本には、本国アメリカにあるWordPress専門メディアがないのか？」という疑問に端を発しています。我々の現状の取り組みと、WordPress先進国の現状について紹介させていただきます。

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