March 22, 2021 — In February 2020, Shanta was laid off from her job after almost two years. She started looking for a new job, but a couple of weeks later, the global pandemic started. Job postings started drying up, and hiring came to a halt.

The next logical thing to do – according to her, was to open her own business! In this talk, she will discuss all the motions and emotions that she went through from never wanting to have her own company to starting up her own web development business during a pandemic. She will cover some of the things she did right, where she went wrong, what (and who) helped, and what you need to consider before you do it yourself.

This talk is designed for small business owners and is for all skill levels.

March 22, 2021 — Community and Training contributors discuss how Learn WordPress can help Meetup organizers. The session also explains how Meetup and WordCamp organizers can contribute to the Learn WordPress initiative.

March 21, 2021 — Josepha Haden (Executive director of WordPress) and Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of WordPress) discuss WordPress and its significance and impact in a country like India, on a fireside chat at WordCamp India 2021 (online).

March 20, 2021 — WordPress Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) happen through the Polyglot Project, which is driven by a team of passionate volunteers who provide translations for a specific language.

i18n and l10n are important contributions to WordPress as an Open Source project. Having WordPress available in all languages makes it accessible to everyone.

This panel discussion will focus on the Polyglots team’s efforts in India and the possible direction of WordPress translations in a diverse country like India with so many languages with so many varieties of scripts.

March 20, 2021 — This talk provides practical guidance for making remote work more effective and productive.

Topics include:

– creating a healthy work-life balance with effective time management
– staying motivated and focused while overcoming stress and procrastination
– mastering virtual meetings
– managing relationships with bosses, colleagues, and teams
– building trust, accountability, and engagement with a team

March 20, 2021 — Finding the good in bad situations – like looking for a Phoenix rising from the ashes – might help you stay positive when it feels like your world is burning.

Did 2020 feel like that for you? From a global pandemic to murder hornets, to event cancelations, and personal struggles: 2020 was a difficult year for many of us.

We pivoted so much and so often it felt like we were constantly reinventing ourselves, our businesses, and our community.

This talk recognizes some of the good that came from 2020’s trying times and suggests how we can move forward in a globally-positive way.

March 20, 2021 — Siddharth will speak on the topic How to be a better designer (Specially as a developer). In the session, he will cover the following topics – The need to be better at design as a developer, its importance, and how it helps us, Steps and exercises to become a better designer, How to take a design language and extend into an aesthetic UI, Best tools to use, Understanding the use of color, fonts, and general best-practices to make a clean UI, and Understanding UX.

March 19, 2021 — Learn the importance of SEO copywriting and internal linking. Get practical tips you can use to start optimizing your website.

March 19, 2021 — Learn about different API solutions in WordPress, with an introduction to the GraphQL API plugin.

March 18, 2021 — Can you believe that it’s been two years already since the WordPress core introduced Gutenberg? In the meantime, the block editor has matured tremendously. Have you already tried to extend its functionality? Spend 15 minutes and save yourself hours when creating custom blocks. In the session, Greg will show how to make the most of the scaffolding command that comes from the Gutenberg core team.