Asmita Subedi
Smart Practices on Providing Support for your Product
Topic Category: Support
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
Asmita is a plugin developer and a support engineer at wptravelengine.com. She enjoys solving problems and dedicates her time to perfecting her knowledge about WordPress Plugins. Her ideal day would consist of reading books or traveling with her close friends.
Session Summary:
Providing Better Customer Support is very crucial in WordPress Business. In this session, we will discuss some smart practices to respond quickly while reducing the support tickets and ways to handle refund tickets and get good reviews at the same time. We will also discuss some WordPress Support Forum Tricks.
Intended Audience: Developers and Support Reps
Avinash Kundaliya
React and WordPress sitting in the tree…
Topic Category: Advanced Development
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
I am a developer with a soft spot for web technologies. Talk to me about front-end engineering, decentralized web or privacy on the web. I like to keep track of hipster tech and sometimes I spend my weekend scratching that itch.
Session Summary:
React and WordPress is this hot couple that is the talk of every conference and meetup. This talk takes the audience through a journey. A journey from wanting to build a simple SPA (Single Page Application) using React and WordPress REST API to actually building one. Along the journey, we will learn some basic React concepts and common pitfalls.
Intended Audience: Developers who want to learn React
Chitra Raj Bhandari
Marketing Fundamentals to level up your WordPress Business.
Topic Category: WordPress Business/ Panel Discussion
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
I am a digital marketing consultant and trainer based in Nepal with proven expertise in search engine optimization, search engine marketing, display advertising, social media marketing, Local SEO, and WordPress Theme, and Plugin marketing combined with strong content writing and editing skills.
Session Summary:
The journey of product marketing starts with the conception of the product itself. The success and failure of a product is basically determined during its inception – This may sound a bit prophetic, but conception of a product is the very basis of its success. WordPress got traction because of its underlying concept of open source and its ability to fulfil the most acute principles of UX.
So, any WordPress product should have this very traits built into it – they should be built to serve a specific function, should be free (at least the most compelling part of it), and most of it should excel in the basic principles of sustained usability. These are the very elements that determine the scope and extent of success of a product on WordPress.
Apart from this very foundation marketing question, there are complexities (if you don’t know) and simplicities in marketing a product (if you know) on WordPress. As is in marketing, the real challenge (read life long challenge) remains to continuously scale the product, increase sales, monetise it and make it self sufficient in monetary terms to keep it FREE.
So the questions are, how can a product developer integrate the simple yet complex product marketing principles into actual action? How can they continue to provide the main features of their product for FREE while growing revenue of their paid products?
If you are plugin developer or theme developer and if you are struggling to meet the development cost of these products, then you might definitely be thinking, how did others succeed in marketing their products that are similar to yours? How did they answer the above questions successfully?
We can feel that pain! Believe us, we have been through that. And that’s why we have decided to share what we have learned. So, level up your marketing game, join our WordCamp panel discussion this year as we discuss the above and other relevant questions central to the success of developing and marketing a product on WordPress.
Marketing is prose, and a good one that one!
Other Team Member
M Asif Rahman
Mainul Kabir Aion
Intended Audience: Everyone
Hemant Kumar
Importance of Colors and Typography in modern webpage design
Topic Category: WordPress Design and Development
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
Hemant Kumar is a passionate design researcher; brand promoter at Rachna Sikki Hastkala Kendra, Rampur, Madhubani, Bihar. Besides this, he guides students from various design backgrounds in publication design, typography and web graphics. He loves spending time with Indic Languages and translating.
Session Summary:
Colors and Typography play vital roles in modern web design and have a great impact on the audience. The Color, font and text all come together to make the brand distinct in the eyes of the user. Informed decision of color palette and typefaces for a website transforms into faster brands acceptance.
Intended Audience:Web designers, developers, Front-end designers
M Asif Rahman
Marketing Fundamentals to level up your WordPress Business.
Topic Category: WordPress Business/ Panel Discussion
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
M Asif Rahman has proudly appeared in nearly 100 WordCamps all around the world and delivered speeches in over 20 WordCamps. Interestingly, Mr. Asif has retired last year by the age of 34, announcing his retirement via a 10,000-word semi-autobiography in HeroPress, which you could read here – https://heropress.com/essays/retiring-young-bangladesh-thanks-wordpress/
He is very excited to be part of the panel and be present in WordCamp Kathmandu, which will be his first time in Nepal, as he missed last year because of US Bangla plane crash!
Session Summary:
The journey of product marketing starts with the conception of the product itself. The success and failure of a product is basically determined during its inception – This may sound a bit prophetic, but conception of a product is the very basis of its success. WordPress got traction because of its underlying concept of open source and its ability to fulfill the most acute principles of UX.
So, any WordPress product should have this very traits built into it – they should be built to serve a specific function, should be free (at least the most compelling part of it), and most of it should excel in the basic principles of sustained usability. These are the very elements that determine the scope and extent of the success of a product on WordPress.
Apart from this very foundation marketing question, there are complexities (if you don’t know) and simplicities in marketing a product (if you know) on WordPress. As is in marketing, the real challenge (read life long challenge) remains to continuously scale the product, increase sales, monetise it and make it self sufficient in monetary terms to keep it FREE.
So the questions are, how can a product developer integrate the simple yet complex product marketing principles into actual action? How can they continue to provide the main features of their product for FREE while growing revenue of their paid products?
If you are plugin developer or theme developer and if you are struggling to meet the development cost of these products, then you might definitely be thinking, how did others succeed in marketing their products that are similar to yours? How did they answer the above questions successfully?
We can feel that pain! Believe us, we have been through that. And that’s why we have decided to share what we have learned. So, level up your marketing game, join our WordCamp panel discussion this year as we discuss the above and other relevant questions central to the success of developing and marketing a product on WordPress.
Marketing is prose, and a good one that one!
Other Team Member
Chitra Raj Bhandari
Mainul Kabir Aion
Intended Audience: Everyone
Mainul Kabir Aion
Marketing Fundamentals to level up your WordPress Business.
Topic Category: WordPress Business/ Panel Discussion
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
Mainul is a Data Story Teller and WordPress Content Strategist. He is Passionate about Growth Hacking, Researching, Data Analysis, and Content Marketing. Currently, he is working as the Head of Content & Marketing at weDevs. Mainul always tries to learn new things and take challenges. He loves to help and empower his team members. Apart from these, Mainul is a Co-organizer of WordPress Dhaka and tries his best to contribute in the open source community. That being said, he has contributed to the WordPress Marketing, Translation and Community team.
Session Summary:
The journey of product marketing starts with the conception of the product itself. The success and failure of a product is basically determined during its inception – This may sound a bit prophetic, but conception of a product is the very basis of its success. WordPress got traction because of its underlying concept of open source and its ability to fulfill the most acute principles of UX.
So, any WordPress product should have this very traits built into it – they should be built to serve a specific function, should be free (at least the most compelling part of it), and most of it should excel in the basic principles of sustained usability. These are the very elements that determine the scope and extent of success of a product on WordPress.
Apart from this very foundation marketing question, there are complexities (if you don’t know) and simplicities in marketing a product (if you know) on WordPress. As is in marketing, the real challenge (read life long challenge) remains to continuously scale the product, increase sales, monetise it and make it self sufficient in monetary terms to keep it FREE.
So the questions are, how can a product developer integrate the simple yet complex product marketing principles into actual action? How can they continue to provide the main features of their product for FREE while growing revenue of their paid products?
If you are plugin developer or theme developer and if you are struggling to meet the development cost of these products, then you might definitely be thinking, how did others succeed in marketing their products that are similar to yours? How did they answer the above questions successfully?
We can feel that pain! Believe us, we have been through that. And that’s why we have decided to share what we have learned. So, level up your marketing game, join our WordCamp panel discussion this year as we discuss the above and other relevant questions central to the success of developing and marketing a product on WordPress.
Marketing is prose, and a good one that one!
Other Team Member
Chitra Raj Bhandari
M Asif Rahman
Intended Audience: Everyone
Prajan Karmacharya
Working with WordPress VIP
Topic Category: Trending
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
Prajan is an avid developer with more than 8 years of WordPress programming experience under his belt. He currently works as team Lead at EB Pearls Pty. Ltd., where his primary job is to design and implement custom, often complex WordPress-based solutions along with other PHP framework-based solutions. His role requires him to assist in requirement analysis, project planning, and team planning. He also provides leadership in finding/developing new technologies and methods to advance the company’s web offerings. Besides this, he still gets his hand dirty with WP coding to provide technical support for website clients.
Session Summary:
Sharing the experience and learning that I have learned while working with WordPress VIP. In this talk, I will go through with some of the do’s and don’ts while working with the WordPress VIP so that that you can enhance the standards of your WordPress coding skills.
Intended Audience: Developers
Qurina Shrestha
Basic Strategies for Plugin Development
Topic Category: WordPress Design and Development
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:A computer engineering by training and passion, Qurina Shrestha is a senior WordPress plugin developer at AccessPress Themes as of now and has more than four years of experience in this sector. Her expertise and experience spread throughout WordPress themes and plugin development, CI, PHP and Bonfire (HMVC PHP Framework).
She proudly calls coding her first love, and is always excitedly learning about new technologies and programming frameworks. When away from the computer, this WordPress enthusiast enjoys reading, swimming, dancing and being with her loved ones.
Session Summary:
Plugins are a well-known term in WordPress. But how familiar are we with plugin development?
The maestros might know all about plugin development. Yet for beginners, it is a mountain to climb. So, in this talk Qurina Shrestha will be talking about some basic development guidelines for creating great plugins. Her talk will also inform the audiences about how plugins interact with WordPress, and what all we will need to know before beginning our plugin development journey. Alongside this useful information, the speaker will also guide us through some steps to start plugin development right away.
Intended Audience: Developers
Rabin Gaire
Integrating React with WordPress & its API.
Topic Category: Advanced Development/Workshop
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
He is a Software Engineer at Leapfrog Technology working as a front-end developer, He has been in this domain for over 2 years. Working mainly with Javascript Ecosystem, React, Vue and Angular are his jam.
Session Summary:
As WordPress is moving towards 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 WordPress Theme using React where we will explain different features and possible uses of React in WordPress.
Other Team Member
– Rakesh Lawaju
– Roshan Gautam
Intended Audience:Developers who want to learn integrating React with WordPress & its API
Rahul D Sarker
Conversion Optimization for WordPress based Website
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
Rahul is a WordPress Developer & Digital Marketing Consultant who helps Startups, Small & Medium Business to solve Technical & Marketing Challenges, empowering them to focus and grow the business. Currently, handing 2 startups and working with few communities very closely. Also, he is a big foodie and self-proclaimed proud solo traveler.
Session Summary:
Getting a good amount of traffic on the website is exciting, but it’s also important to understand how many of them are taking an intended action, i.e signup, purchase and so on. In this talk, we will cover the reason behind why conversions are not happening and what needs to be done in order to improve that. By understanding, analyzing and improving the conversion rate one can increase revenue per visitor and acquire more customer.
Intended Audience:Developers, Bloggers & business owners
Rakesh Lawaju
Integrating React with WordPress & its API.
Topic Category: Advanced Development/Workshop
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
Rakesh Lawaju is a Web developer, trainer and recently an entrepreneur based in Nepal who has been in web field since 2008. He is Co-Founder/ CTO of WEN Solutions, a company primarily develops WordPress plugins and gives WordPress related support. He is also project lead for WP Travel, a WordPress trip and travel management plugin.
He has developed multiple WordPress plugins, contributed to open source projects and is collaborating with Graph Paper Press for its plugin and theme development. During the release of WordPress 4.4 “Clifford”, he has contributed on WordPress core and contributed in translating WordPress in Nepali. He was a speaker on WordCamp Nepal 2015 and is a frequent speaker on WordPress meetups. He was on the organizer team of WordCamp Kathmandu 2016 and 2017. He has been an instructor for Web development on PHP and WordPress development related topics. He is an easy going person who enjoys listening to music, learning new things and sharing his knowledge.
Session Summary:
As WordPress is moving towards 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 WordPress Theme using React where we will explain different features and possible uses of React in WordPress.
Other Team Member
– Rabin Gaire
– Roshan Gautam
Intended Audience:Developers who want to learn integrating React with WordPress & its API
Roshan Gautam
Integrating React with WordPress & its API.
Topic Category: Advanced Development/Workshop
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
Roshan is the Co-Founder at Brainants Technology Pvt. Ltd having 3 years experience with React/React Native.
Session Summary:
As WordPress is moving towards 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 WordPress Theme using React where we will explain different features and possible uses of React in WordPress.
Other Team Member
–Rakesh Lawaju
–Rabin Gaire
Intended Audience:Developers who want to learn integrating React with WordPress & its API
Saloni Mehta
Breaking Gender Stereotypes as Lady WordPress Developer
Topic Category: Analysis/ WordPress Design and Development
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
Saloni Mehta is a senior WordPress plugin developer at AccessPress Themes with 4 years of working experience in the field. A computer engineer by education, she has been contributing to the IT sector with her expertise in WordPress and PHP framework.
She says she is mostly busy falling in love with codes. But when she is not, she uses her time to travel, cook and be with her family. A happy go-lucky person, Saloni believes every day is a fresh blank canvas. Paint your colors as you live 🙂
Session Summary:
The world of WordPress programming has tons of brilliant minds. Only a few of these minds are women. Does brilliance come with a gender requirement?
In her presentation, Saloni will be talking about the gender stereotypes that she has come across in her life as a programmer. Her focus will also be on the reasons and ways to overcome these stereotypes. And having reached where she has in her WordPress career, she will be shedding light on some of the ways lady WordPress developers can overcome the difficulties that arise from the stereotypes.
But, this talk is not just for the female population. If you are someone who believes in gender equity, or in not letting gender be a hindrance for talented minds, this session will be an enjoyable experience for you.
Intended Audience: Everyone
Saurab Adhikari
How to create and sell Freemium plugins?
Topic Category: WordPress Design and Development
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
Saurab Adhikari is a lead plugin developer at https://wptravelengine.com. He is a passionate WordPress developer and an inspired writer at https://saurabadhikari.com.np. He has been contributing to the WordPress community for 4 years with his knowledge, skills, and experiences. Apart from development, he loves to watch sports, listen music, go for hiking, and explore new things and new places.
Session Summary:
Most of the developers as well as entrepreneurs think of ideas to create plugins and earn from it but rather gets stuck when it comes to applying them. This topic can catch the attention of every audience as it covers the basic steps and process of developing Freemium plugins and selling them.
Intended Audience: Developers, Entrepreneurs, Startups
Shrijana Thapa KC
Do the developers need public speaking skills to boost their career?
Topic Category: Analysis/ WordPress Design and Development
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
Shrijana Thapa is a Software Engineer and works as a front-end developer at Mandala IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd, a software company based in Pokhara. She came to WordPress by chance and got hooked since then as an active member of WordPress Pokhara. Having almost a decade long of experience in media, she has given trainings on public speaking and used to work at top radio stations of the city.
When she’s not typing away on a keyboard, you will find her freelancing as an emcee at events around the city. She is an avid reader, has an immense love for travel and wishes to explore different places in her spare time.
Session Summary:
It’s not strange to know the fact that many people suffer from stage fright and mass fear or anxiety when it comes to public speaking. This implies with IT personnel, developers or designers as well. One can have a hard time if you have a problem in delivering your ideas well with your clients or one can find it really difficult to convince his/her colleagues about his project if he doesn’t have good speaking skills resulting in unexpected outcomes. So, lack of public speaking skills can be a great hindrance to your success or career as a whole. But public speaking skills can be a silver lining to the clouds as this will allow you to have a better understanding of the subject matter, motivate you to do lots of preparation, implement the theories practically which is mandatory in IT sector and it will also let you explore new things and do more research which is so much essential in this technology driven world where everything keeps on changing with a blink of an eye. So public speaking skills can be a booster to your IT career and it may take you a long way. So why not enhance it for a better us, for our better tomorrow?
Intended Audience: Developers, Entrepreneurs, Startups
Suvash Khadka
Line-up Community and Connectunity
Topic Category: Community
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
I have been working in WordPress community since 2012 from small meetups to large seminar and International standard conference as WordCamp across the nation.
I have presented 650+( plus) papers in ICT conference across the country and outside border.
I am working recently as QA/ System Analyst at Stupa Technology, and also co-founder of the company. Also actively serving the ICT sector as an academic instructor/lecturer. I do work on many projects facilitated by Nepal Government in IT sector. I am rewarded by various titles in the sector and have been successful to create an impact in the community.
Session Summary:
Firstly, my topic will get to know about the aspects of the community. The real world story, especially in the context of Nepal that has been unheard or unexplored. Impact it has added. In the next verse, a presentation will showcase how community bonds and make the growth for a person who gets involved thereby showcasing a career perspective. Then the next verse will have action research along with the future prospect. Hence, I have taken a new word Connectunity (that has it contextual meaning) that actually meets the theme of WordCamps i.e. representing local and focusing the originality-true story that really engages people/community.
Intended Audience: Startups, Community Enthusiast, Professional, Academician, Government(mixed kind)
Toby Nieboer
Remote Working – Why You Should (Or Shouldn’t) Embrace It
Topic Category: WordPress Business
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
Toby is currently responsible for hiring software engineers at Automattic, and was a developer and people leader for nearly a decade before moving into technical recruitment. He is passionate about helping people achieve their goals and dreams, and also about coffee.
Session Summary:
Good software engineers can be found anywhere, and embracing remote working enables you to tap into that global pool. But just because you *can*… does that mean you *should*? In this talk I’ll go through some dos and don’ts, talk about some pitfalls, and hopefully guide you towards doing remote the right way. I’ll include some stories that draw on my experience working in technical recruitment for clients who have been on both sides of the do/don’t scale, as well as Automattic’s decade-plus experience as a fully-distributed company.
Intended Audience:Business owners, Developers
Vishal Deshpande
Setting Up WordPress on Amazon EC2 in minutes
Topic Category: Advanced Development/Workshop
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
Vishal is the Co-Founder & Product Head at Nestify – A Managed WordPress Hosting Company based out of Texas US. Vishal is an entrepreneur by Brain and Doer by heart. He has 13+ years of experience in Product Development, Web Development, Digital Marketing across various domains. WordPress, product development, growth strategies are the topics he is surrounded with.
Session Summary:
In this session, we will go through step by step process to Install and Configure WordPress on Amazon AWS EC2. I’ll cover basic Linux commands, how to setup EC2 servers and how to secure them properly, how to install and configure Apache, PHP, and MySql and how to point a domain to your configured EC2.
Intended Audience: Intermediate
Yoav Farhi
Your First Gutenberg Block
Topic Category: Trending
Speaker Type: International
Speaker Bio:
Yoav Farhi is an Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiønër at Automattic, who works on everything related i18n (that’s internationalization) and l10n (localization) and of course, translation. A core contributor to WordPress for 10 years now, Yoav works hard to make the web a better place.
Session Summary:
If you haven’t jumped in yet, this quick presentation will teach you the basics of Gutenberg block creation.
Learn how blocks can improve workflows for you and your customers, and start taking advantage of everything the new WordPress editor has to offer.
Intended Audience: Developers