WordCamp Nepal 2022
5th & 6th November 2022
Chitwan Garden Resort (CGR), Bharatpur Nepal
The Biggest Nepali
WordPress Conference
WordCamp Nepal 2022 is back with a bang on Nov 5th & 6th, 2022 which will take place in the City of one horn Rhino – Chitwan, Nepal. The main event will comprises an Event Day and a Contributer Day where you will get opportunities to build new connections in ice breaking sessions and comprehensive expertise will be shared among the participants.
All the technology freaks and enthusiasts can witness lots of enlightening and productive sessions by world-class speakers followed by gratifying memories at the after-event party.
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Our Speakers
Zena is an Assistant Lecturer and Master’s student at Gandaki College of Engineering and Science. Currently, she’s doing her thesis research on “Applying Deep Learning to Identify Schizophrenia using Structural MRI” as part of her Masters studies.
Previously, she has worked as SEO Expert and Junior Developer at Books Mandala, Pokhara, Nepal as well as part time freelancer as Search Engine Optimization Specialist at RankSense New Jersey, United States remotely.
She was introduced to WordPress by her brother. Now, WordPress is a go to tool for most of her projects. She says, “Never has my life been so easy to develop websites for my clients so fast; WordPress has prevented me from re-inventing the wheel and helped me to deliver quickly”.
She is really excited to present on “Machine Learning and WordPress” in this WordCamp 2022.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: Machine Learning and WordPress
Topic Description:
– General overview of different terms like Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning and Deep learning.
– Few WordPress plugins that have implemented Machine learning to perform different tasks.
– Demonstration of Training the algorithm and implementing it into a custom plugin.
Intended Audience: Anyone who is interested in Machine Learning.
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Machine Learning and WordPress
November 5, 2022 at 9:30 am in Hall Rhino
Santosh has been in the field of Information Security professionally since 2015. His expertise includes web application , mobile application, and network vulnerability assessment/ penetration testing. Besides, he is also skilled in vulnerability management, server assessment/hardening, and cloud security assessment. He has worked in various domains including banks, payment gateways, Internet service providers, co-operatives, etc. Sometimes, he blogs about information security and stuff at codedbrain.com.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: WordPress Application Security
Topic Description:
The presentation will cover the following things (but are not limited to) :
1. Rise of WordPress and related security concerns
2. Securing WordPress users, plugins, and themes
3. Hardening WordPress
4. WordPress firewall
5. WordPress security plugins
6. WordPress backup for malware and ransomware rollback
7. WordPress security best practices etc.
Intended Audience: Developers, WordPress Users, InfoSec enthusiasts, WordPress hosting providers
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WordPress Application Security
November 5, 2022 at 10:30 am in Hall Rhino
Nabin is the Chief Product Officer at Codewing Solutions. He started his career as a support intern and is now leading all the team members in the company to develop and maintain WordPress products. He is a WordPress enthusiast who loves learning new technologies and interacting with his customers to improve his products. He spends his leisure time reading books and blogs, learning new skills and watching Netflix shows.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: Skills You Need as a Customer Support Representative
Topic Description:
Good Customer Support is essential to improve your product, increase customer loyalty and contribute to the growth of the company. Nabin has experience of over 4.5 years of working as a customer support representative and has interacted with more than 10,000+ customers. In his speech, Nabin will share his learnings and cover the following topics:
– Understanding the Importance of Customer Support
– Skills to learn as a Customer Support Representative (CSR)
– Benefits of Working as a CSR
– Some of the tools he uses to increase productivity
– Some helpful resources to learn more
Intended Audience: Targeted for students and CSR
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Skills You Need as a Customer Support Representative
November 5, 2022 at 10:30 am in Hall Elephant
Garvit is a Senior Developer at Everest Themes and Team Lead for the Everest Backup plugin. He is primarily involved in WordPress Themes and Plugins but also likes to work with other technologies such as ReactJS, Flutter, Node, and Bash.
Garvit started his career as an intern at WEN Solution and worked as a core developer for the WP Travel plugin. He also likes guiding and mentoring new developers and researching new technologies whenever possible. He spends his leisure time playing the guitar, reading books and tech blogs, and going outdoors.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: Block Optimizations – Developing optimized Gutenberg blocks plugin
Topic Description:
The session will briefly introduce development techniques for optimized blocks in Gutenberg. We will cover topics like dynamic and static block development, coding approaches for optimizing blocks in react, error handling and improving the overall performance. We will be looking into live examples, GitHub demos and real-time implementation of optimization techniques through a block plugin.
Intended Audience: WordPress Theme and Plugin developers
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Block Optimizations – Developing optimized Gutenberg blocks plugin
November 5, 2022 at 11:00 am in Hall Elephant
Suvash Khadka, WordPress Enthusiast has been engaged in WordPress Nepal Community since its establishment from 2011/12 to present date. He’s the President of WP Nepal, Coordinator of WordPress Nepal Community. He’s been actively supporting WordPress communities via different activities, few to include are WordPress Meetup, WordPress College/University Events, WordCamps. He’s played various organizer roles in WordCamps continuously in WordCamp Kathmandu, Bharatpur, and so forth. He’s been WordPress Meetup Lead several times. He’s an initiator who believes in giving back to the community via WordPress. Mr. Khadka is also engaged with WordPress communities as WordPress Bristol, WP London.
Suvash is renowned in ICT sector in Nepal, and has been awarded by the Government of Nepal for his initiatives. He’s worked as an expert, senior consultant, and member of various committees in the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Nepal Telecommunications Authority, Department of IT, NITC. He’s a Cyber Security expert who has contributed in national/international level. He’s leading the ICT industry of Nepal, as a CEO of the largest internet industry alliance namely ISPAN, FNCCI ICT Development Committee member, CAN Federation, Internet Society.
Suvash has various professional certifications. He works with a group of companies (part time) as System Analyst, Project Manager. He’s a lecturer teaching from the last 10 years for IT programs such as CSIT, BCA, MSc. IT.
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Panel Discussion — WordPress in Business & Prospects of the Community
November 5, 2022 at 3:45 pm in Hall Elephant
He is a web designer, a developer, and also an entrepreneur. He has been working in the web development field since 2005 and has been gaining experience as a designer, developer, team leader, and project manager. He feels like he should start his own company that focuses on developing websites, mobile apps, and web-based applications. So, back in 2015, he registered his own company named “Genesis Web Technology”. He is now a full-time CEO at Genesis Web Technology, serving various fields like news, hotels, NGOs/INGOs, travel & tours, and much more.
Personally, he is a person who loves to travel, listen to music, and is always curious about new things (mostly regarding tech). He loves to share his knowledge.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: Your Next Website with WordPress
Topic Description:
WordPress is a very popular CMS for Websites because of so many features and benefits. His session will be covering the below topics.
– WordPress History and status
– Why WordPress for Developers and Non-Developer
– WordPress Key Features and Backend Overview
– Website Enhancement and Optimization
– WordPress – Final Opinion & Thoughts
Intended Audience: Beginners
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Your Next Website with WordPress
November 5, 2022 at 2:15 pm in Hall Rhino
Anup is Assistant Professor at Gandaki University, the first provincial university of Nepal. Currently, he’s doing his research on “Course Recommendation System based on Semantic Search” with the university grant from the university.
He has also co-founded Simle Infotech Private Limited, which works on data based applications for government services.
Previously, he worked as an IT engineer in Parbat, District Co-ordination Committee for 3 years.
He was introduced to WordPress during his Bachelors as his peers started their company based on WordPress. He believes that WordPress is an essential framework for both developers and non-developers (content-creators). He says, “If a revolution has to be sought for internet based applications in Nepal, then one should start a change starting with WordPress”.
He is excited to present on “RDFs in WordPress for Knowledge Representation of Blog Articles”.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: RDFs in WordPress for Knowledge Representation of Blog Articles
Topic Description: Below are the key points he will cover during the session: – Overview of RDF based documents.
– Demonstration of creation of ontology based documents using Protege.
– Integrating owl documents in WordPress site.
Intended Audience: Content Creators, Developers and Students
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RDFs in WordPress for Knowledge Representation of Blog Articles
November 5, 2022 at 11:00 am in Hall Rhino
Rabin Shrestha is a WordPress enthusiast and developer. He started his career in WordPress back in 2012 as a developer. And since then, it has been an incredible ride. He is the co-founder of ThemeGrill, a WordPress themes and plugins selling company. ThemeGrill holds a portfolio of multiple WordPress products that have crossed 100K active installs. Currently, he is working as a project lead for WordPress products under WPEverest branding and is busy strategizing on a new project called Masteriyo.
Although less vocal, he likes contributing to WordPress. He was a speaker at the first WordCamp in Nepal in 2012. Since then, he and his company have contributed multiple times to WordPress Nepal Community as speakers and sponsors. Besides work, he likes visiting new places and hanging out with his close circles. You can find him on Twitter @rabinsthaa
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Panel Discussion — WordPress in Business & Prospects of the Community
November 5, 2022 at 3:45 pm in Hall Elephant
Krishna Neupane is a full-stack software developer, mainly working with WordPress & JavaScript. Krishna has more than 7 years of industry experience working for popular products, international communities & companies.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: Creating efficient WordPress Queries with WP_Query
Topic Description:
WP_Query is a class defined that allows developers to write custom queries and display posts using different parameters. It is one of the commonly used classes in WordPress. We will be discussing how it is possible to use it more efficiently. The topic will cover about mistakes to avoid, optimizing the query and making it more scalable for large database sizes.
Intended Audience: Developers
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Creating efficient WordPress Queries with WP_Query
November 5, 2022 at 10:00 am in Hall Rhino
Shristi Shrestha is an Associate Product Manager at Code Rush. At Code Rush, her key role is to anchor the service and product design process. She manages inter-team collaboration and facilitates effective communication to ensure stakeholder alignment in all aspects of product development. She enjoys working at the intersection of business, marketing, and technology. She has worked on projects across branding, web development, app development, e-commerce, and AR domains. In the early stages of her career, she worked as a freelance digital marketer specializing in SEO, copywriting, and WordPress design. She is also an active community leader working to promote women in tech. She is the Strategic Manager at Girls in Tech Nepal. Through her involvement in non-profits like Girls in Tech, LOCUS, Anitab.org, and more, she has been a part of more than 100 tech events in different roles: organizer, sponsorship manager, moderator, panelist as well as a speaker.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: Leveraging Design Thinking to Elevate User Experience on WordPress Websites
Topic Description:
WordPress’s wide spectrum of usage ranges from powering the most sophisticated websites like The New York Times to providing an easy-to-use digital presence for local small and medium-sized businesses all over the world. With countless options for ready-to-use themes and plugin libraries, WordPress is undoubtedly one of the best platforms for creating amazing websites. However, sometimes the same cookie-cutter design and functional restrictions imposed by WordPress themes and plugins can degrade the user experience of a website.
Every website caters to a unique audience and, hence, requires careful consideration and a user-centered approach for acing the architecture, design, and content that best match user needs. In this talk, we will discuss how we can use the base frameworks of Design Thinking, i.e., Empathetic User Research, Framing (and Re-Framing) User Problems, Ideation, Prototyping & Testing, and Periodic Modification to build an intuitive and functional website that matches user intent.
Intended Audience: WordPress Developers, WordPress Designers, Bloggers, Small Business Owners using WordPress
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Leveraging Design Thinking to Elevate User Experience on WordPress Websites
November 5, 2022 at 1:45 pm in Hall Elephant
Abhishek Rijal is a professional WordPress developer primarily involved in WordPress Plugin development. Currently Working as a Sr. Software Developer at Brainstorm Force, he has been involved with Theme Review, WordPress themes and plugins development, customizations, and leading development of WordPress-based products used by thousands of users globally.
Abhishek is an active participant and contributor to the regular WordPress meet-ups and community events around Kathmandu. He has also participated in WordCamps in Kathmandu, Pokhara and Biratnagar as a speaker/Contributor’s day lead.
While not working, he loves to travel around and explore new things. Additionally, he engages in different social service projects in Nepal as a member of Lions Club International.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: Block Optimizations – Developing optimized Gutenberg blocks plugin
Topic Description:
The session will briefly introduce development techniques for optimized blocks in Gutenberg. We will cover topics like dynamic and static block development, coding approaches for optimizing blocks in react, error handling and improving the overall performance. We will be looking into live examples, GitHub demos and real-time implementation of optimization techniques through a block plugin.
Intended Audience: WordPress Theme and Plugin developers
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Block Optimizations – Developing optimized Gutenberg blocks plugin
November 5, 2022 at 11:00 am in Hall Elephant
Rahul D Sarker is a Digital Marketing consultant with over 8 years of experience in SEO, Brand communication, Conversion optimization, Sales & Acquisition Funnel, etc. He is a regular contributor to various projects (WPTV, polyglot, Diverse speaker support, Community) and is very active in the WordPress community. He is one of the team refs for WPTV and GTE for polyglots Bengali. He is also one of the organizers of the WordPress Kolkata community and WooCommerce Community.
Speaker Type: International
Topic: Isn’t SEO dead?
Topic Description:
SEO is not dead. In fact, it’s actually more important today than ever before. As much as 53% of all website traffic comes from organic search. What’s more, this figure continues to grow – by 17% over the last year alone.
In this presentation, I will share 10 techniques/best practices for improving content strategy for SEO along with a downloadable checklist.
Intended Audience: Business owner, Digital marketing professionals
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November 5, 2022 at 11:30 am in Hall Elephant
Rayhan Arif is a WordPress and eLearning enthusiast working as an AVP of Business Development at Themeum. He has a long experience in educating WordPress users through content marketing. Rayhan finds it fascinating to create content for WordPress and talk to customers, business partners, and WordPress enthusiasts. He is always looking for newer ways to spread eLearning in WordPress With Tutor LMS and make it even better.
Rayhan has been working with content marketing for more than 6 years. He has been involved in formulating the content strategy for the WordPress products, researching new content ideas, and ensuring content is smartly prepared using SEO-targeted keywords.
Speaker Type: International
Topic: How to Get Started With Content Marketing in WordPress
Topic Description:
The topic “How to Get Started With Content Marketing in WordPress” will include a definitive guide on content marketing in WordPress. It will showcase what it takes to get started, how to generate content ideas, and some proven content and SEO hacks to write content that ranks. The talk will discuss everything that beginners need to have a headstart in content marketing in WordPress.
Intended Audience: Content marketers, bloggers, technical writers, marketing strategists, and anyone with an intention to have a headstart in content marketing in WordPress.
Raushan Jaiswal is a WordPress Entrepreneur, Marketer and Investor. He is co-raushanchessfounder and CEO of Codewing Solutions, the company behind Rara Themes and WP Travel Engine.
Raushan has been using WordPress for over ten years. He created his first website in 2012 with WordPress and immediately fell in love with WordPress’s simplicity. That later inspired him to build a career in WordPress and build WordPress products.
Raushan wears multiple hats at Codewing Solutions, including marketing and growth of the products. He has 10+ years of experience in marketing with extensive knowledge and experience with SEO, affiliate marketing, email marketing and YouTube marketing.
Using his WordPress marketing skills, he has been able to get millions of website traffic and YouTube views, leading to 10 million+ downloads.
You can read his thoughts on marketing and other things at https://raushanjaiswal.com/ or say hello on Twitter under the handle @raushanchess.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: WordPress Marketing – 4 Easy & Effective Marketing Channels to Promote WordPress Products
Topic Description:
The topic will focus on four WordPress marketing channels – WordPress.org, YouTube, Email Marketing and Affiliate Marketing. It will help the audience to understand why to choose the marketing channels, see real examples, and know the necessary steps to get started with WordPress marketing.
Intended Audience: The topic is intended for anyone who wants to promote WordPress products or is a part of a WordPress product team, such as WordPress entrepreneurs, developers, marketers and product managers.
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WordPress Marketing – 4 Easy & Effective Marketing Channels to Promote WordPress Products
November 5, 2022 at 10:00 am in Hall Elephant
Sunita is a content marketer with more than seven years of experience. She specializes in WordPress SEO content writing, affiliate marketing, and email marketing. After working on popular WordPress blogs like AccessPress Themes, ThemeGrill, and WPBeginner as a full-time writer, she is now more involved in hiring and training beginners, freelance writing, and managing some WordPress blogs. She was a speaker at WordCamp Kathmandu 2016 and WordCamp Biratnagar 2018 and a co-organizer of WordCamp Kathmandu 2022. You can find her on Twitter @TheSunitaRai.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: How Success Gaps Help You Build a Robust Content Strategy?
Topic Description:
Customer success is vital to the success of every business. That’s to say that you cannot succeed until you help your customers to succeed. But how can you help them succeed? The primary step is identifying the success gap and closing it with a robust content strategy. This presentation will define the success gap, its types, why you should care for it, and how it helps build a robust content strategy.
Intended Audience:
Aspiring content marketers and anyone interested in content marketing.
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How Success Gaps Help You Build a Robust Content Strategy?
November 5, 2022 at 2:45 pm in Hall Elephant
Aditya manages the Hosting Support team at WPMU DEV. He is a WordPress evangelist, and is a tech enthusiast, & has presented talks at several tech conferences including WordCamp Kochi, Google Cloud Community Days, Microsoft Global Azure Bootcamp, etc. He has also been an active contributor to the community for 7+ years where he organized numerous WordPress meetups in Bhopal, India and various workshops on WordPress that have positively impacted thousands of students and professionals. Aditya introduced the WordPress Bhopal meetup Chapter in 2015 and aims to build a better and safer WordPress space by creating mass technical awareness.
Speaker Type: International
Topic: WPCLI Unleashed
Topic Description:
Remember the famous WordPress “five-minute installation” process? Find out what you can do using WP-CLI in minutes. Learn WP-CLI from basic to advance and everything else that can happen from the terminal in 25 minutes.
Intended Audience: Beginner to Intermediate
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November 5, 2022 at 11:30 am in Hall Rhino
A senior executive for a WordPress company by day, and a book blogger by night, Tanaz is a content creator with a passion for writing–be it for WordPress news and products, book reviews, or film recommendations. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a major in Marketing. Her hobbies include blogging, reading, and contributing for the WordPress project.
Speaker Type: International
Topic: How To Avoid Burnout When Working With WordPress
Topic Description:
This topic will focus on finding the perfect balance between work life and real-life duties, so that a person can find joy in working with WordPress instead of being frustrated. The topic will cover the identifiable symptoms of a burnout, how to prioritize self-care to prevent getting burned out, and finding your own daily dose of inspiration for working with WordPress.
Intended Audience: This topic is intended for individuals who are working at a WordPress company, or those who work with WordPress in addition to holding a different day job.
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How To Avoid Burnout When Working With WordPress
November 5, 2022 at 2:45 pm in Hall Rhino
Alina is a Product Manager at Code Themes. She likes to call herself a Proud WordPresser rather than a Web Developer. It’s been more than 12 yrs that, she has been involved in the IT sector, and is still going great. As a WordPresser, she has been a Speaker in WordCamp Nepal 2014, WCKTM 2017, Panelist WCNPL 2015, and Communication Wrangler of WordCamp Nepal 2015. As a mother of a fairly hyperactive toddler, she uses her (little 😉 ) human resource management skills in her work to manage the team better and get things done.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: WordPress as a Career
Topic Description:
While WordPress powers more than 43% of the websites out there, there still seems to be some confusion among students and freshers around building a career in WordPress. I want to take this opportunity to let people know that a career in WordPress is possible even though one is not from a technical field.
Intended Audience: Students, fresher and to those who wants to make a career out of WordPress.
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November 5, 2022 at 1:45 pm in Hall Rhino
Eeda Rijal is a Tech professional with expertise in Product Design and Project Management. Currently, she is a Delivery Associate- pilot project at Cloudfactory, managing ML and AI-related projects. She is a former Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at SochWare where she worked to manage the overall company with a specialization in Product Design. She looks at the application aspect of knowledge and believes in utilizing intellectual ability for the betterment of society. With a passion for tech combined with social work, she has been a trainer, and educator to empower and educate girls for the betterment of society running multiple workshops at the local level She+ is her recent initiative to empower girls in grades 9-12 in a remote village in Nepal with computer-based skills. Eeda co-founded Covid Connect Nepal (CCN) a volunteer-run initiative that helps people to find medical resources during pandemics backed by data, also supporting the government.
Speaker Type: National
Topic: The evolution of UI/UX in WordPress
Topic Description:
We shall be discussing what UI/UX is and how it has evolved in WordPress over years. Also we shall be touching base on major things WordPress developers should consider while developing website for great User experience.
Intended Audience: Beginner- Mid
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The evolution of UI/UX In WordPress
November 5, 2022 at 9:30 am in Hall Elephant
Ujwal Thapa Scholarship
The WordPress Nepal community was one of several initiatives he started.
He co-founded it alongside Sakin Shrestha and Chandra Maharzan.
Since then, this organization has expanded tremendously and now numbers more than 8200 members.
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A historic WordPress Conference, WordCamp Nepal 2022 is concluded with over 750 attendees at Chitwan Garden Resort, Bharatpur, Chitwan. Many thanks to all of our generous sponsors of WordCamp Nepal 2022. This time, we had 23 total sponsors including 6 global community sponsors and it was a huge success.
Venue Location
Chitwan Garden
Resort (CGR)
Chitwan Garden Resort, a luxurious and environmentally friendly hotel in Bharatpur, provides its guests with the greatest hospitality in town.
It offers freshly remodeled rooms with a private outdoor garden view terrace that is creatively decorated and furnished with painstaking detail to create an atmosphere of calm, elegance and relaxation. CGR, with its large and decorative event spaces, strives to make every event a success from start to finish.
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