- First WP Version Used
- 4.x
About
Swapnil Deshpande is a seasoned WordPress Engineer, plugin developer, and active community organizer based in Pune, India. With years of experience building scalable themes and plugins, he has worked with leading firms like Brainstorm Force, Multidots, and Travelopia. He is also the creator of PulseShare, a WordPress plugin for integrating Spotify into WordPress.
Beyond his technical work, Swapnil plays a vital role in the WordPress community as a core organizer of WordCamp Pune and a regular facilitator at workshops and meetups. He has led hands-on sessions on Full Site Editing, plugin development, and WordPress fundamentals, helping bridge the gap between beginners and advanced users. As a Certified Ethical Hacker, he brings a keen eye for performance and security to every project.
Swapnil is passionate about open-source contributions, developer education, and fostering inclusive, hands-on learning spaces within the WordPress ecosystem.
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Past talks (3)
Dive into Full Site Editing and learn how to build a custom WordPress theme using blocks, templates, patterns, and theme.json. This session is ideal if you want practical experience building themes with the latest WordPress tools.
Introduction to WordPress, understand why WordPress is great because of its ecosystem. Creating a basic website using Playground and/or Studio (which is based on Playground) to build your first WordPress website on your local machine. The basics will also cover functional pages like About, Contact and homepage or other landing pages.
FSE is exciting but has a lot of confusing jargon around it. Through this workshop, we aim to provide a back-to-basics introduction to FSE, from an absolute beginner’s perspective. After a few minutes going over some essential concepts, you will spend most of the workshop building your very own local site using FSE with the Twenty Twenty-Four theme.