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Next WordCamp is happening in Mumbai on 15th and 16th march 2014. This edition of WC Mumabi is being organised by Aditya Kane and Alexander Gounder, they have managed to get a very good lineup of speakers covering all aspects of WordPress. I am personally excited to hear about topics that Brajeshwar, Rahul, Annkur and Ramya are going to talk about, while I still don't know what Ramya will talk, but knowing her it will be useful nevertheless. If you love WordPress then go buy a ticket to WordCamp mumbai, and let's meet there. Ohh and before I forget, If you want to know what this WordPress thing is all about and you stay in Pune then you should join Pune WordPress user group, we are meeting on 5th April to discuss just that.

On Quora someone recently asked if it was possible to have an Indian language website in WordPress. I am reproducing my answer that I gave on Quora.

Yes it is possible to create WordPress based blogs and websites in  Indian language. It is already translated in various Indian languages, and using following plugins, you can write your post in Indian languages.

1. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/indic/
2. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/indic-ime/
3. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/indic-language-comments/

You can download fully localized version of WordPress from http://www.wordpressindia.com

If you need setting up your site in your language do not hesitate to contact us, we are here to help.

I have know Prasant for some time and had been following Lighthouse Insights, a blog focused on Indian social media news. When he asked us to redesign his blog so that it better reflects various types of content, we were very excited. After understanding his needs we suggested that he use thesis framework  and we created a child theme that better reflected his needs. 1) Home Page 2) Category Page Listing 3) Single Blog Page

What we did for this Thesis site

1. We created a Child theme for thesis.
2. Advised them on theme framework to use and why.
3. Advised and suggested few plugins to use.

By the way if you are interested in social media then you should regularly read lighthouse insights.

Our latest project, an exclusive social networking site for Manchester United fans,  on which we have been working since September this year for Aniket Kulkarni, is now out for public beta. Unitedbuzzz, provides members with all the news they wanted about Manchester United, it’s players, their chants, fixtures, stats, ability to create there own united dream team, chat with other members, follow their stars and during the match ability to follow and comment on matchcast. Now you don’t have to go to ten different websites to get all these informations.   1) Home Page   2) After You login, your activity feed 3) Quick Overview page for ManU 4) Players Page 5) Matchcast   6) Chat with your buddies

What We Did

1. Created the UI for the Unitedbuzzz
2. Created the fully compatible BuddyPress template for WordPress
3. Created a  Plugin for Matchcast
4. Created many widgets to display various information's
5. Used various types of custom post types needed for displaying and managing all the information's
6. Integrated Facebook like Video chat on the site.
7. Integrated and configured various plugins to work together to give full experience.
8. Hosting it on our servers

Just Two months back we had WordCamp Jabalpur in India, and now in about two months 3rd official WordCamp is going to happen on 11th –12th February 2012  10th-11th March 2012 in Cuttack, Odisha.

This one is organised with help of Soumya Pratihari,  with whom i was fortunate enough to meet in last WordCamp. In case you had missed last WordCamp, you can read about it here and here to know how exciting it was, and why you should attend this one.
We are supper excited, and even more excited by the fact that event like WordCamp are happening in smaller cities of India.
P.S. Book your (train)tickets now, or it might be too late .

In four days that WordPress “Sonny” 3.3 is out, it has already been downloaded more then 1 million times, and counting. This shows the popularity of WordPress, and i know there are still sites that have not yet upgraded. Here is a video showing the moment in history of WordPress in case you missed it

“Sonny” the latest version of WordPress is out, and available for download. Check your dashboard and you should see an option to upgrade automatically, just in case you want to upgrade manually you can check instructions to upgrade. With WordPress 3.3 you get

• Drag and drop uploader.
• Ability to upload rar and 7z files.
• Now widgets don’t go away just because you changed the theme.
• Import from tumblr.
• New hover menu for navigation.
• Improved admin tool bar.
• Pointer tips for all the new features.
• Improved co-editing notification
• In case you are new, help tabs have been revamped to make it easier to find help when you need it.
• Dashboard optimized for iPad’s and touch.
• Latest version of jQuery.
• Improved editor API, to make it easier to add buttons.
• Performance improvement for ‘post slug’ permalink structure.

  You can also checkout massive list of changes and improvements on codex. I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank every one who contributed to code that released for 3.3, here is list of people who made this awesome release possible. AdamBackstrom, amereservant, ampt, andrewfrazier, arena, carlospaulino, Caspie, cebradesign, David, Da^MsT,deltafactory, demetris, designsimply, dgwyer, Digital Raindrops, dragoonis, DrewAPicture, eduplessis,Eightamrock, eko-fr, Elpie, elyobo, Empireoflight, evansolomon, fonglh, garyc40, GaryJ, goldenapples, goto10,hakre, Ipstenu, Jackson, Jayjdk, jeremyclarke, jgadbois, Jick, JohnONolan, jtclarke, kevinB, kitchin, Kuraishi,Latz, linuxologos, lukeschlather, Mako, MarcusPope, mark-k, masonjames, MattyRob, matveb, Maugly,mdawaffe, mitchoyoshitaka, Mr Papa, mrtorrent, natebedortha, olivM, olleicua, Otto, pagesimplify,paulhastings0, pavelevap, pete.mall, peterwilsoncc, ppaire, r-a-y, Rami Y, ruslany, ryanhellyer, saracannon,scottconnerly, sirzooro, tech163, TheDeadMedic, tmoorewp, vnsavage, wpweaver, WraithKenny

Our latest project was to create a blog template for Dr. Shweta Labde, who wanted to share her knowledge of Ayurveda via her blog.

Screenshots

1) Home page. 2) Single Page

What We Did

1. We created the WordPress Template from PSDs provided by client.
2. Site Configurations and Optimizations.
3. Setting up feedburner for subscribing to the blog posts.

Matt Mullenweg in an interview with Mathew Ingram at GigaOm RoadMap conference yesterday announced that WordPress.com now hosts more then 60 Million blogs. He also said the focus of WordPress development is going to be social and mobile fronts. According to me this is good news for us developers as well as people who have self hosted the blog. What do you think?