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After working for more then a year on Awesome Studio, we are happy to announce that Awesome Studio Framework for WordPress is now available to everyone, albeit still in limited fashion. Go check out the most WordPress developer friendly framework, and register for the early access.

After a gap of one year, we have a WordCamp happening in Pune on 6th September 2015. It's being organized by Wordex meetup group. This year it is going to be one day, multi track event and we can promise you that it is going to be better then all other WordCamps that has happened in India. Organizing team has decided to give special focus to हिन्दी and मराठी talks. You should buy the tickets and attend or you will miss out on best WordCamp in India.

Welcome to Awesome Websites. In last 6+ years at WPoets we have created 100s of site and web application and only about 10% of them are actually active or upto date, rest are either outdated or no more in existence. The reason we found that those of our customers who were routinely tweaking their website/app based on feedback they received are still up and running, as they kept improving things on their site and engaged with us. Once this insight hit us, it was no brainier that we need to offer our customers risk-free way to engage with us and improve their website, and Awesome Wesbites was born, so that not only we build but also operate it for you. It is a Continuous Improvement Subscription Plan to make your website awesome, in this plan we will take full ownership and responsibility of your web presence, and work with your team to ensure those good things you do is also represented beautifully on the web. We will look into visitor analytics and convert it into actionable insights for your business.

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