Vachan Kudmule will help you start a marketplace with WooCommerce

Vachan became an entrepreneur in 2002, at 17, when he started his firm KDC (Krazy Devil Creationz).

Over 14 years, he has expanded his business around payment solutions and eCommerce, mainly WooCommerce.

At WordCamp Pune, Vachan will explain how to start a marketplace simply with WooCommerce.

His session will cover:

  1. Brief Intro to WooCommerce [based on real-time stat of the audience]
  2. What is a marketplace
  3. How to setup a marketplace
  4. Handle Payments
  5. Handle Logistics
  6. Vendor Relationships

Swapnil Patil, our next Marathi Speaker, will talk about WordPress Coding Standards

Until the past few weeks, Swapnil was one of the people who didn’t care much about coding standards and the general readability the standards offer to the code.

He recently experienced how much difference that makes.

Now Swapnil would like to introduce WordPress Coding Standards and how to automate them.


काही आठवडे आधी, स्वप्निलला स्वतः लिहित असलेल्या कोड कसा आहे, किंवा कुठेले स्टँडर्ड्स कसे आणि का वापरायचे या बद्दल माहित नव्हते.

चांगला आणि स्टँडर्ड्स वापरून लिहिलेल्या कोडनी किती चांगला फरक पडू शकतो याचा तो गेल्या काही दिवस पासून अनुभव घेत आहे.

म्हनुण स्वप्निल वर्डप्रेस कोडिंग स्टैंडर्ड बद्दल आपल्या महिती देणार आहे.

Amrit Israni will talk about importance of culture in an organisation

Amrit Israni is a human resource professional who enjoys exploring organizational culture, strategies, and goals.

He likes to be a part of the WordPress community as it’s based on open source culture.

Amrit will have an interactive session exploring various facets of organisational culture.

Culture is a dominant aspect in any organisation, whether apparent or not it still exists.

He will be discussing what open source culture is, on how certain behavioural sets can be effectively mapped to an individual’s job roles and responsibilities.

He will also be sharing his thoughts on how culture varies in service and product based organisation.

Meet WisdmLabs, our next Bronze Sponsor at WordCamp Pune

WisdmLabs is a team of innovators, engineers and specialists working together to build comprehensive open source solutions for niche to enterprise brands.

Their extensive experience with WordPress has been recognized by the community, which has officially accredited them as WordPress Core Contributors, WooCommerce Gold Experts, Event Espresso Pros and more.

They actively engage with the WordPress community and have contributed several plugins to the WordPress repository. Their blog provides great tips for WordPress developers, users and entrepreneurs alike.

Over the years, they’ve strongly established themselves as one of the leading open source solution providers in the e-commerce and e-learning space.

WisdmLabs’ mission has always been to create value for all its stakeholders. For this, they work towards building successful associations with clients and providing a vibrant work-environment for their colleagues.

You can check their site and their services here.

We thank WisdmLabs for their Bronze sponsorship for WordCamp Pune.

Harshad Mane will talk about WordPress compatibility and cultivating community development in Marathi

Harshad Mane, our next Marathi speaker, will talk about plugin and theme compatibility with WordPress at WordCamp Pune 2017.

Compatibility is a cornerstone of WordPress, unfortunately, not something nearly enough community members take seriously, whether its contributing to core, plugin, theme or even organizing meetups.

Harshad Mane’s talk would focus on all aspects of how to make your plugin, theme, and your local community compatible with WordPress.

Harshad would like to share his thoughts on how to make things/people work together without conflict(s) building a healthy community.


वर्डकॅम्प पुणे २०१७ मध्ये हर्षद आपल्याला वर्डप्रेस सुसंगतता (कम्पॅटिबिलिटी) या विषयावर स्वतः चे विचार व्यक्त करताना दिसेल. 

वर्डप्रेस सुसंगतता (कम्पॅटिबिलिटी)  अत्यंत महत्वाचा विषय आहे, वर्डप्रेस समुदायातील सदस्य त्याचा गांभीर्या ने विचार करत नाही. 

१. आपण स्वतःला वर्डप्रेस समुदाया मध्ये कसे समाविष्ट करून घ्याल ?
२. आपल्याला एक “चांगला/चांगली वर्डप्रेस सिटीझन” म्हणून कशी ओळख निर्माण करता येईल?
३. आपण वर्डप्रेस समुदाया मध्ये कसे उपयुक्त ठरू शकाल?
४. वर्डप्रेस समुदाया मोर्चे बांधणी दरम्यान लागणारा सकारात्मक विचार का गरजेचं?

या व अनेक विषयांवर आपण वर्डप्रेस अधिक चांगले कसे करू शकतो, हर्षद माने आपले विचार आपल्या समोर सादर करणार आहे.

Vikas Kumar will talk about building a fintech startup on WordPress

Vikas is an entrepreneur, investor, author, and marathoner. He is an IIM Lucknow Alumnus.

He has served as CTO at various startups such as Brainvisa Technologies, SMEJoinup in last 16 years and currently serving as CTO at LoanTap.

He is passionate about technology, specifically WordPress.

Vikas Kumar would be talking about his experience building and running a FinTech startup using WordPress.

Fintech are companies which are redefining financial transactions like loans by taking it online. An example of this kind of company is LoanTap which is built in WordPress.

Thanks Give for giving us Silver Sponsorship

Give is the #1 donation plugin for WordPress with more than 20,000 active installs.

It enables users to accept donations on their WordPress-powered website with flexibility and a minimal barrier to entry.

Their mission is to Democratize Generosity and empower giving for everyone, anywhere.

Give is the flagship product of WordImpress. They build high-quality, well supported WordPress plugins.

We thank Give for giving us silver sponsorship.

Jitesh Patil will talk about adding starter content to themes with WordPress 4.7 in Marathi

Jitesh is our third Marathi speaker at WordCamp Pune.

Jitesh is a WordPress developer & digital marketing enthusiast. He works at Yapapaya.

With WordPress 4.7, the concept of adding starter content to themes has been introduced. Jitesh will talk about this new concept.

Jitesh will conduct his session in Marathi, and help you get an overview of starter content. How it can help provide a great experience to your theme users.

So if you are a someone who is getting your hands dirty with creating themes and prefer Marathi, you might want to catch Jitesh’s talk.


जितेश पाटील हा आमचा तिसरा स्पीकर आहेय जो मराठीत बोलणार.

जितेश हा एक वर्डप्रेस डेव्हलपर आणि हौशी डिजिटल मार्केटर आहे. तो यापपाया येथे कार्यरत आहे.

वर्डप्रेस ४.७ मध्ये स्टार्टटर कंटेंट समाविष्ट करण्याची नवीन संकल्पना आली आहे. जीतेश या नवीन संकल्पने बद्दल बोलनार आहे.

जितेश हे सत्र मराठी मधे घेनार आहे आणी स्टार्टटर कंटेंट आपल्या थिमचा अनुभव कश्या प्रकारे बदलू शकते याबद्दल माहिती देनर आहे.

तुम्ही जर वर्डप्रेस थीम बनवण्या जिज्ञासू आहेत तर नक्की हा सेशन मध्ये भाग घ्या.

ResellerClub is our latest Gold Sponsor

ResellerClub is our latest Gold Sponsor at WordCamp. We are proud to partner with one of the India’s most popular Domains & Hosting brands for Web Professionals.

ResellerClub is a platform provider catering to the Web Design & Development community worldwide through a full-fledged Reseller Program that includes Product Integrations, Order Management, Billing & Customer management and includes a free eCommerce storefront and API integration too!

ResellerClub supports the global WordPress community by providing world-class Hosting options optimized for WordPress across Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Cloud Hosting solutions as well as VPS and Dedicated Servers.

ResellerClub also offers domain name registration services and other essential web presence products such as email & security to bring SMBs online. Know more about ResellerClub.

ResellerClub also organizes SiteWars, the Web Design contest and Ctrl+F5, a multi-city series of summits for Web Designers & Developers with leading experts from the industry.

You can visit ResellerClub here.

Avadhoot Kulkarni, our second Marathi Speaker, will talk about Remote Working

Avadhoot loves marketing and has been an evangelist of remote work for more than 2.5 years now.

He has been fortunate to serve clients across the globe (USA, Middle East, South East Asia) from his comforting home-office and/or coffee shops in Pune, India.

During WordCamp Pune, Avadhoot will share his remote working experience.

He looks forward to a discussion about how a business can go from 100% office to office -remote and eventually 100% remote.

So if you are an individual who is interested in remote work, or a business which is considering going remote, this session is for you.


अवधूत मार्केटर असून गेली २.५ वर्षे तो रिमोट काम करत आहे.

त्याचे जगभरात क्लाएन्ट्स (यूएसए, मध्य पूर्व, दक्षिण पूर्व आशिया) असून तो त्याच्या पुण्याच्या घरी सेट केलेल्या ऑफिस मधून त्यांना सेवा पुरवतो.

वर्डकम्प पुण्यात तो त्याचा रिमोट कामाच्या अनूभवाबद्दल बोलेल.

तसेच, तो तुमचा व्यवसाय १००% ऑफिस ते ऑफिस-रिमोट आणि अखेरीस 100% रिमोट कसा जाऊ शकतो याबद्दल चर्चा करेल.

आपण जर रिमोट कामाबद्दल उत्सुक असाल तर हे सत्र आपल्याला नक्किच आवडेल.

WordCamp Pune is over. Check out the next edition!