September 14, 2025 — Introduction to Elementor: Elementor’s drag-and-drop builder enables easy customization of WordPress sites, with widgets being crucial for tailoring design and functionality. Need for Custom Widgets: Custom widgets are essential when default options don’t meet design needs, offering benefits for both developers and users. Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of WordPress, Elementor, and coding (PHP, JS, HTML, CSS) is required. Set up a local development environment for testing. Creating Custom Widgets: Develop a plugin, register the widget, define controls, and render content using Elementor’s API. Extending Functionality: Enhance widgets with JS and CSS for interactivity and style, while managing scripts efficiently. Best Practices: Ensure lightweight, optimized widgets compatible with updates and WordPress standards. Testing and Debugging: Use debugging tools to test functionality and resolve common errors. Tools & Resources: Utilize code editors, debugging tools, and Elementor’s documentation for efficient development. Q&A & Demo: Address specific questions and demonstrate building a custom widget live.

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September 14, 2025 —  I will be presenting in Marathi and sharing strategies to maximize the WordCamp experience. The session will include insights on effective networking, selecting the right sessions, engaging with speakers and fellow attendees, leveraging WordCamps for growth, and contributing to the WordPress community. This talk is designed for attendees of all experience levels.

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August 14, 2025 — Overview: – Explore my personal journey of transforming various interests into a successful career. – Highlight different examples of passions and how they can be developed into professions. Key Points: – Digital Tools: Discuss essential tools, focusing on WordPress, for building an online presence. – Resource Utilization: Strategies for leveraging low-cost or free resources available on the internet to minimize investment. – Roadmap: Provide a practical roadmap for turning interests into professions, including actionable steps. – Best Practices: Outline crucial **dos and don’ts** in the journey of transitioning from passion to profession. – Consistency & Time Management**: Emphasize the importance of maintaining consistency and effective time management for long-term success. Target Audience: – Aspiring entrepreneurs eager to monetize their hobbies. – Individuals seeking to enhance their skills using digital tools. – Anyone interested in transforming their passions into sustainable careers.

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October 21, 2023 — Pritam perceives the process of content creation as similar to farming. Consistency for farming and blogging, risk calculation, and patience for results are similar factors for both fields. How the two worlds of farming and technology are similar is explained by Pritam in his fascinating topic The Farming Analogy For Blogging/Vlogging Success

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February 7, 2021 — Introduction to WordPress in the Marathi language.

February 6, 2021 — Workshop on Introduction to WooCommerce in Marathi language

March 20, 2018 — This Panel discussion will be a frank and honest discussion about, How WordPress helped the Panelist to use their Voice with WordPress.

December 20, 2017 — At WordCamp Nashik Dhanajay Maharaj More, will share his WordPress story, on How WordPress helped him to publish his articles on Kirtana and Warkari Samradaya, and how easy/hard it was to use WordPress.

December 20, 2017 — Gauri Sawant; Society told her that she is not a woman; but she became a mother. They told her that she has no rights of her own, that she does not exist in the eyes of the law; yet, she took in an orphaned girl to protect her right to a happy childhood, so that another little girl doesn’t get trafficked and disappear into oblivion.

May 4, 2017 — In this session Makrand would help people understand, translating WordPress into Marathi is easy & simple.

Anyone having knowledge of English and Marathi language can do it.

WordPress Polyglot site is made for Localization of WordPress. Makrand would like to motivate people to contribute to it.

WordPress is already available to use in the Marathi language. If more people’s starts contributing, more themes and plugins can be translated.

There are more than hundreds of popular themes and plugins on WordPress repository. If at least they are translated into Marathi then many Marathi peoples can use WordPress easily in Marathi.

On the occasion of Global Translation Day first, Makrand gathered many peoples to translate WordPress in Marathi. He found that some suggestions were getting rejected by General translation editor (GTE).

Not every time, GTE can explain reasons for rejecting strings. But Makrand will guide new contributor and explain them ways to get in touch with Marathi GTEs. So better translations will be possible.

Also, attendees will know benefits of contributing back to the community.