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It’s time to say thank you to our Speaker/Sponsor/Organizer Party
Sponsor, WPLeaders. Thank you for your contribution to WordCamp Kathmandu 2019. WordCamp wouldn’t have been the same without your support.

WordCamp Kathmandu 2019 is the popular WordPress conference with the number of attendees, from experienced designers, developers, and writers to just enthusiasts and beginners. The two-day conference will feature talks, workshops, and presentations from many WordPress enthusiasts and professionals. It is a yearly event organized by WordPress Nepal, a group of WordPress lovers, users and developers. This group conducts WordPress meetups on a monthly basis and a WordCamp once a year. For this year, WordCamp Kathmandu is happening in 16^th and 17^th  March at Bougainvilla Events, Tripureshwor. The session will start from 10am-5pm

Successful Eight years

Yes, it’s the 8^th year of WordCamp Nepal. It all started with the meetup which was held in April 2011 and then the community started to create more of it which lead to bring WordCamp Nepal in 2012. All these successful years, was possible because of the awesome sponsors, talented developers, enthusiastic WordPressers. The best part of WordCamp is to get to know fellow WordPressers, know their story and connect with them. Through, WordCamps one can learn a lot and also contribute to the community. Events like these help to keep push everyone further and deliver themselves in the best way possible. After all, self-development is important and helps in the development of the overall community which later can be recognized by the world. Each year of WordCamp have its own story to tell and now WordCamp is here to make more stories. Also, some of the stories get exchange during the event related to WordPress or any other things, no boundaries. Every year it happens and it’s new each time. Not only WordCamps are useful to increase knowledge, it also brings out local talents and gets known in the community.

What’s New?

Previously, WordCamps were all about the sessions on how to use WordPress more effectively, beginning plugin and theme development, advanced techniques, security, etc. This year it’s more than that as it brings Gutenberg lab, React workshop, Beginner lab and Marketing Strategy. Gutenberg is a new editor and a blogging tool in WordPress 5.0 with cool features to use that has been released recently. There will be a separate Gutenberg lab for the Gutenberg workshop where you will learn Gutenberg block creation and how it improves workflow. Similarly, React workshop includes integrating React with WordPress & API and Marketing Strategy will cover panel discussion regarding growth hacking. Moreover, WordPress Beginner lab is workshop specially targeted for students. It gives a general overview of WordPress to the newcomers along with plugin and theme installation and customization concept. WordCamps isn’t just attending the sessions and workshops but more of a community of WordPress being together, networking with each other, sharing experiences and giving it back to the community to help each other. More importantly, WordCamps are a place to find common minds, connect with them, even for startups it helps to find clients, developers which will make them grow bigger and better. WordCamp Nepal also helps to bring out local talents and expose them to the community and the whole world. Don’t forget to make your presence there.

Around the venue

The session surrounds Hall Action, Hall Filter Gutenberg lab, Happiness bar. Hall Action occupies sessions as WordPress with react by Avinash Kundaliya, Basic strategies of Plugin Development by Qurina Shrestha, Importance of Colors and typography in modern web page design by Hemant Kumar and many more similarly, Hall Filter contains React workshops, Line- up Community and Connectivity by Suvash Khadka, Conversion Optimization for WordPress based Website by Rahul D Sarkar and so on. The Gutenberg workshop will be done in Gutenberg lab by Yoav Farhi whereas the React workshop will be done by Rakesh Lawaju, Rabin Gaire and Roshan Gautam.
Similarly, for panel discussion, we have Mainul Kabir Aion M Asif Rahman and Chitra Raj Bhandari. Swags will be the place where you will get the WordPress stickers, badges free along with the tickets. Jetpack & WooCommerce will be placing the stalls.

After party

Just like other parties “After party” is all about gathering, enjoying and having nice, easy conversation. The after party will be held in A Café Garden Restaurant at Tripureshwor, Kathmandu. If you look into the maps, it’s just 2-3 mins far from the Bougainvilla Events. It will start at 6 pm, after finishing the sessions. Attendees must have the entry card of WordCamp for the party. Moreover, you will get to enjoy and connect with the person you want.

Contributors Day

Contributors day is all about contributing the community where you get to learn so much. You also get to have a nice easy conversation with WordPress experts in various fields. It is happening on 17^th March at the same venue. There will be 3 teams, Theme review, Polyglots and Support . Each team will be led by national as well as international contributor day team leads. Consider bringing your laptop and charger and get ready to give back to the community. WordCamp 2019 is on its way and few more days left. So don’t forget to grab your tickets and experience the amazing sessions.

It’s time to say thank you to our Silver Sponsor, The Secret Shop. Thank you for your contribution to WordCamp Kathmandu 2019. WordCamp wouldn’t have been the same without your support.

Secret Shop being an IT cum e-commerce company started back in 2018 with the objective of catering unique desires of people that are left unattended.
We attend to many desires not limited to Custom Personal Computer Builds, Gaming Setups, Simple but trendy fashionable wears, third-party purchase from online stores(Amazon.in, Flipkart, Aliexpress, etc) and in-game top-ups for games such as PUBG Mobile, Fortnite, FreeFire, Mobile Legends, Clash of Clans and many more.
If you have an unattended desire feel free to get in touch with us through our website/ facebook profile.

Facebook: facebook.com/thesecretshopNP
Website: secretshop.com.np

Get familiar with Gutenberg in Gutenberg Lab

Gutenberg is the new block-based editor that has been introduced along with the release of ‘WordPress 5.0’. The Gutenberg editor allows us to create media rich posts and build beautiful layouts using blocks. All types of contents inside the blocks can be edited, rearranged and styled easily within a few clicks.

What is Gutenberg Lab? Why should one attend this lab?

Gutenberg lab is the separate lab allocated for Gutenberg workshop where attendees will be building the post layouts using Gutenberg editor. This whole one hour session will be basically focused on content creation using blocks. It also provides overview about how to use the new block based editor.

If you want to get familiarize about the blocks and build your own custom post, page layouts without having to code then this lab is must to attend. Moreover, if you have any doubts regarding Gutenberg editor then you can get it cleared out attending this session.

Who are the suitable attendees for the session?

The attendees who are inquisitive about Gutenberg editor are warmly welcomed to attend this session. However, it is specially targeted to the beginners having basic knowledge about WordPress.

How many attendees can participate in the session?

The session will run basically in two rounds with 20 intended participants for each round.

How to participate?

The attendees who are interested to be the part of the session should register their name at the time of registration. Furthermore, the participants should fulfill certain prerequisites to attend the session. There will be a separate technical team in the happiness bar to review whether the requirements are fulfilled or not.

What are the prerequisites to attend the sessions?

• Attendees must have their own laptop and adapter.
• XAMP/WAMP/MAMP or any local development server should be installed. You can download the XAMPP server from the link below and also get an overview about its installation. https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/xampp/
• Attendees should have WordPress installed on their laptop. You can also download the WordPress from the given link below:
  https://wordpress.org/download/

Event Schedule

A separate hall has been booked for Gutenberg lab. It will be conducted in two rounds with 20 participants in each round.
Round 1:  10:30am-11:30am
Round 2: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Both the rounds will be led by Anil Pawn who is an experienced web developer and also one of the organizers of WordCamp Kathmandu 2019.

The biggest WordPress Conference in Nepal “WordCamp Kathmandu 2019” is all set to kick off from March 16 to17 at Bougainvilla Events, Tripureshwor. If you are still in a dilemma whether or not to attend this WordCamp, then here are the major reasons why you shouldn’t miss this event.

1.Highlights of the event

WordCamp Kathmandu 2019 has many surprises this time. Unlike previous years where sessions used to be focused only on use of WordPress in regards to plugins, themes development and customization work, this time, we are introducing Gutenberg session and lab for the first time. Our another attractions of the event are React session and a workshop on integrating React with WordPress and its API. Moreover, this year we have basic WordPress workshop specially designed for the beginners.Last but not the least ,the first day of the event also have a good stuff of session on marketing, conversion optimization and product selling followed by the Panel Discussion on business strategy building.

Gutenberg

Gutenberg is the latest hot cake in every WordPressers mouth. This is because of the flexibility and comfort it provides with blocks when writing posts, working with images and laying out pages. Keeping its popularity in mind, this time WordCamp Kathmandu 2019 offers session and workshop on Gutenberg to its participants. The detail about this session and workshop are elaborated below:

i. Your First Gutenberg Block session by Yoav Farhi :Yoav Farhi, an International Speaker with more than 10 years of experience, is going to deliver separate session on the basics of Gutenberg block creation. From this, one can learn how blocks can improve workflows for them and their customers. This is a trending topic and can be quite beneficial for anyone associated with WordPress.

ii.Gutenberg lab: There will be a separate lab allocated for Gutenberg workshop where attendees will be building the post layouts using the new editor for WordPress, namely Gutenberg. The workshop will be conducted in two rounds with 20 participants in each round. Each session will be of one hour. The main focus in the session will be about content creation using blocks. Furthermore, it also provides overview about how to use the new block based editor. 

React Integration with WordPress

The integration between React and WordPress has become talk of the town these days. Many developers are now shifting towards react for building the front end of the application. Moreover, WordPress REST API makes it even more simpler for developers to connect WordPress with other sites and applications. Henceforth, WordCamp has tried its best to cover this trending topic in subtle manner. For which, it has scheduled following sessions and workshop for the participants.

i. React and WordPress sitting in the tree by Avinash Kundaliya: Avinash Kundaliya, an experienced developer, is going to share his knowledge about bringing both React and WordPress together. His session will focus on building a Single Page Application using React and WordPress REST API. The session will help attendees learn React concepts and common pitfalls. Anyone who wants to learn React can get benefitted from this session.

ii. Workshop on integrating React with WordPress and its API: We have also scheduled a workshop on Integrating React with WordPress and its API. The workshop will be mentored by the three most experienced developers of Nepal : Rakesh Lawaju, Rabin Gaire and Roshan Gautam. This workshop will benefit those attendees who wish to explore flexibilities in WordPress using recent technologies in the market.

WordPress Marketing Strategies

Marketing Strategy plays a prominent role in leading any business towards the road of success. WordPress Business is also not an exception. If we analyze the present status of theme and plugin development companies in Nepal, they are in well off condition in terms of expe rtise but we fall sort in the field of marketing our innovative products. Hence, to uplift WordPress business through marketing, we have included separate session and panel discussion about marketing strategy that will help you accelerate your WordPress Business.

i. Conversion Optimization for WordPress based websites by Rahul D Sarker: This session will feature Rahul D Sarker, an International Speaker who will speak on WordPress Business. Rahul is a WordPress Developer and Digital Marketing Consultant who helps startups and small medium businesses. This session on business will cover the reason behind why conversions are not happening and what needs to be done to improve that. Developer, bloggers and business owners can be immensely benefited from this session.

ii. Panel Discussion on expediting the WordPress Business: WordCamp also includes a panel discussion on Marketing strategy to escalate your WordPress businesses. The international panelist Mainul Kabir Aion, M Asif Rahman and national panelist Chitra Raj Bhandari will be sharing their views and opinions regarding growth hacking. Any enthusiast of WordPress can get great inspirations from this discussion.

WordPress Beginner Lab

WordPress is an open source content management system that lets anyone build websites without having much technical knowledge. Since its quite easy to create any desired websites using WordPress, it has been the most popular tool worldwide. This time WordCamp Kathmandu 2019 has also included the session targeting the students who are not technically sound enough on WordPress but want to create their own blogs and websites. Attendees will learn about the WordPress setup as well as plugin and theme installations in the workshop. Moreover, this session will provide general overview of WordPress to newcomers.

2.Something for Everyone

WordCamp Kathmandu 2019 has something to offer for everyone. Whether you are a developer, or a designer, or an entrepreneur or even a student, there are lots of things that you can take away from this event. Developers and designers can meet their peers, share their insights and can ultimately make partnerships out of the networking. For entrepreneurs, this conference can be a great opportunity to build network with experts and commence some potential business partnerships. For students, who are inquisitive, this can be the perfect opportunity for them to learn from the experts, develop new skills, get inspired and build a network which can be very helpful for their career development. In addition, WCKTM2019 also hosts many effective sessions and workshops for different categories of audience.

3.Networking Platform

Needless to say, WordCamp is the greatest networking platform for all the WordPress enthusiasts. It provides opportunities to connect and network with like-minded people. Moreover, it also includes after- party event for you guys to hang out and have effective interactions. This will help in building long-lasting personal and business relationships. In fact, there are lots of examples of successful business relationships form previous WordCamps in Nepal. Last but not the least, attendees get to have lots of fun during the event which makes it a worth attending one.

In a nutshell, this event is a great platform for all those people who are associated with WordPress. We hope you do not miss this opportunity to be the part of the event for expanding your horizon of knowledge and networking. See you all in the event.

We know you are excited going to WordCamp Kathmand 2019 and you obviously want to show the world. So, today we are releasing banners you can use to show the world your support for WordCamp Kathmandu.

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It’s time to say thank you to our Micro Sponsor, Keon Themes Thank you for your contribution to WordCamp Kathmandu 2019. WordCamp wouldn’t have been the same without your support.

Keon Themes is a web development company specializing in WordPress Themes & Plugins development. We build clean, minimalist, elegant, fully responsive and powerfully flexible themes and plugins that’s versatile and easy to use.

Keon Themes is a destination for Premium and Free Themes and Plugins for your WordPress website. We stand behind our Themes and Plugins’s quality and your satisfaction with, it is important to us.

Twitter ID: https://twitter.com/keonthemes

Facebook ID: https://www.facebook.com/keonthemes

Everything about Beginner Lab

If you are a curious novice and want to know about what is WordPress and how can you get started with it, WordCamp Kathmandu 2019 can be a very good opportunity for you to begin. The Beginner Lab will have professionals guiding you to take your very first step towards your WordPress journey.

What is Beginner Lab? Why should one attend this lab?

Beginner lab is a workshop where the attendees get introduced to WordPress and learn its basics. If you want to create websites quite easily without having to code then it is must to attend the lab. Moreover, the lab will include plugin and theme installation and customization.

Who are the suitable attendees for the session?

Beginner Lab is targeted mostly to the students and the beginners who are interested to learn WordPress and who have simple queries related to it. The lab has limited number of seats.

How to participate?

In order to participate, attendees should register their names for the session while registering for the event. Registration starts at 10am on the event day.

Prerequisites to attend the session

• Consider bringing your own laptops and charger.
• Download and install XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP or any local development server in your laptop. You can also download XAMPP from the link given below: https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/xampp/
• Attendees should install WordPress in their laptop. You can download WordPress from the link below: https://wordpress.org/download/

Event Schedule

The workshop will be conducted in a separate hall at 12:40pm-2:40pm. It will be led by Madan Panthi who is a project manager at Bharyang Ventures and also one of the organizers of WordCamp Kathmandu 2019.

Hall LEAD

• You are the main team leader to the allocated hall.
• Your main responsibility is to run the sessions smoothly.
• You have to co-ordinate with Timekeeper, Door guard, Tech & Speaker help, Mike Runners, Social Media handlers and other volunteers within the Hall.

Timekeeper

• Your responsibility is to start and end the sessions, talks on time.
• Show time card to speakers for their remaining time during the session.
• You have to help the speakers stay on proper time track.

Door guard

• You have to warmly welcome people into the halls before the session starts.
• Make halls peaceful by maintaining silence when people entering or exiting the halls during the talks.
• You will get good chances to see the sessions when you’re guarding the door.
• During the Q&A’s you have to help microphones runners at backside of halls.

Tech help

• Your role is to connect with Audio & Video Wrangler.
• Your job is to make sure that session doesn’t go wrong with any technical difficulties.
• You should have technical knowledge to resolve the issues.

Microphone Runners

• Its super easy job but should be speedy person resolving last minute issues.
• You have to assist the Hall lead with things that might be needed in the hall.
• Main role is to run microphones during the Q&A’s.

Social Media handlers

• You are responsible to write posts and share pictures during the sessions
• You will have to post directly on the WCKTM2019 social media accounts.
• You should interact and response to the people who are commenting on posts.
• you have to be fast and accurate due to the time constraint.
• You need to support attendees if they ask for help using social media.

Media & Communication Support

• Your role is very important during the whole event.
• You have to communicate with the Photography/video team.
• You have to make sure that all photos/videos are captured as per needed.
• You need to find and share news during the event.
• You have to prepare and set up interviews with speakers, attendees and more.
• You make sure all Media supporters and Media partners get updates during the conference.

Gutenberg Lab Room Assistant

• Directly co-ordinate with Gutenberg Session Lead
• You have to be technically sound with Gutenberg.
• Help attendees to get the expected results
• Overview progress
• At the end of the session, select one of the best layout built by the attendees to award the winner.

WP Beginners Lab Room Assistant

• Directly co-ordinate with WP Beginners Session Lead
• You have to be potentially good with all about WP.
• Help attendees to get the expected results
• Overview progress
• At the end of the session, select one of the best layout built by the attendees to award the winner.

Workshop Assistant

• Directly co-ordinate with Workshop Session leads.
• You have to create friendly environment for Workshop leads during their workshop.
• Attendees need an approval sign from Happiness Bar manager to get in a workshop and it’s your job to verify those.
• It’s your role to make sure nobody is a disturbance during a workshop.

Happiness Bar Manager

• You are leader of Happiness bar.
• You should be comfortable helping people with all kinds of WordPress related Q&A’s.
• You have to be friendly there.
• You have to keep inviting face that makes people feel comfortable asking all the questions.

Happiness Bar Techinal Assistant

• This is totally technical role.
• You have to co-ordinate with Gutenberg Lab Room Assistant, WP Beginners Lab Room Assistant and Workshop Assistant together.
• When Attendees are applied for Workshop and Lab, then you have to verify following amenities along with them.
  • For Gutenberg Lab
    • Laptops and adapters
    • XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP or any other local development server installed https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/xampp/ .
    • Latest WordPress setup (https://wordpress.org/download/) with twenty-nineteen theme installed.
  • WP Beginners Lab
    • Laptops and adapters
    • XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP or any other local development server installed https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/xampp/ .
  • React Workshop
    • Laptops and adapters
    • XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP or any other local development server installed https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/xampp/
    • Latest WordPress setup (https://wordpress.org/download/) with twenty-nineteen theme installed.
    • Add some dummy post in backend or import Theme test file as instructed here.
    • Node installed.

Registration & Swag Station Manager

• Set up the Registration & swag table.
• Plan and make sure all stuff are in good order.
• Coordinate with Swag Station lead, Finance and Print Wrangler
• Oversee the swag area and make sure everything is fine.
• Make sure that enough volunteers are present at swag station.
• Create a system to hand out T-shirts and check who got one.

Swag Station Assistant

• Work with Swag Stations Manager and other volunteers
• Help Attendees to get the swag quickly.
• Make sure all stations are peaceful

After Party Entrance Manager

• Welcome people to the after-party and check their badges.
• You have to get people into the venue in a quick and organized way.
• You set the mood for the team to get people excited to enter the party-location.
• You make sure to keep out unwanted guests.

As WordPress is moving toward new changes like API & React, many programmers and developers seem to be confused about these new changes. To adopt the changes we need to have basics clear, so our session will cover some basics that can help WordPress developers to get started with WordPress API & React.

This workshop is basically about exploring the flexibilities of WordPress with popular technologies in the market. We will talk about using one of the popular UI libraries React alongside WordPress. We will be consuming the API provided by WordPress in a React project.

We will build an infinite scrolling archive page in React where we will explain different features in React.

Workshop: Integrating React with WordPress & its API
Hall: Filter (Hall 2)
Date: March 16, 2019
Time: 12:40 pm-2:10 pm

Speaker
–  Rabin Gaire
–  Rakesh Lawaju
–  Roshan Gautam

Intended Audience:Developers who want to learn integrating React with WordPress & its API

Attendee Prerequisites:
– Laptops and adapters
– XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP or any other local development server installed https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/tutorials/installing-a-local-server/xampp/
– Latest WordPress setup (https://wordpress.org/download/) with twenty-nineteen theme installed.
– Add some dummy post in backend or import Theme test file as instructed here.
– Node installed.

Basic knowledge that should be
– PHP
– JavaScript
– If ever developing a WordPress theme, WordPress’s plugin will be very good.
– React, NPM (Bonus point!)