Arun Kumar Pariyar
WordPress Basic to Advanced Customization Workshop
Speaker Type : National
Topic Category : Workshop
Speaker Bio : Arun Kumar Pariyar is a free and open source and linux enthusiast. He has years of experience on web technologies, cloud infrastructures and WordPress as his primary content management system. He is also the Co-Founder and Lead developer of a popular Linux distribution of Nepal ie Chitwanix OS. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Information Technology (Bsc. CSIT) at Indreni College, Bharatpur.
Arun has expertise on security, performance, high availability and performance of cloud infrastructure running WordPress in large-scale. He has worked on design and development of many customized themes for companies in Nepal and across the globe. Arun is one of the active volunteers in some FOSS communities like FOSS Nepal Community, FOSS Chitwan, WordPress Bharatpur Community and has presented in many WordPress meetups and workshop. Besides technology, he enjoys riding his bike, hacking stuffs, debating with his colleagues on technologies and taste new foods.
Session Summary : Workshop is basically about learning how to customize WordPress from basic to advanced level. Workshop will cover below listed topics.
- Xampp Installation
- WordPress Installation
- Basic Theme Setup
- Basic Plugins Usage
- Basic Theme Customization
- Template Hierarchy Explanation
- Child Theme Creation
- Custom Page Templates Usage explanation
- WP Query Usage Explanation with Examples
- Custom Post Type and Custom Taxonomy Register with Examples
- Custom Fields Usage with Examples
- Action and Filters Basic Explanation
- init hook
- enqueue hook
- wp_head, wp_footer hooks
- the_title, the_content filters usage explanation with examples
Intended Audience : Everyone
Bibek Sapkota
WordPress For Entrepreneurs
Topic Category : WordPress Business
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio : Bibek Sapkota is a passionate youth and an Information Technology graduate. He is a social activist by heart. He has been actively involved in Lions Club International As District secretary of Leo District Council 325 B1 Nepal and Amnesty International Nepal as a member. Being a youth entrepreneur, he is leading Social Enterprise Urja Lab as Chairman and Aarambha IT Research Center as a Co-founder and Life In Nepal as CEO. He is a former Council Member of United States Embassy Youth Council (USYC) and Federal Youths Parliament of Nepal. Moreover, he is also a farmer running Himalayan Earth Farm, Baglung. Mr. Sapkota has been active in WP Community as a volunteer, organizer and speaker in different WordCamps.
Session Summary : Startups are usually huge on ideas and entrepreneurs are mostly short on cash. Generally speaking, most startups do understand that a presence on the internet is most to their idea developing into a growing venture. A website is a convenient and cost-effective idea for them to explain their ideas, lay out the road map to achieve them and keep all stakeholders informed of their progress. It confers credibility on the venture with details of name, address and contact details. It also helps to reach out to job seekers, investors, suppliers and potential customers in the early stages and for building up a buzz until launch day.
As soon as the startup starts, the website can be converted into 24/7 available platform for marketing, sales, customer support and related stuffs. I shall be talking about cost efficient, secure, effective and easy use of WordPress for Entrepreneurs and their startups.
Intended Audience : Entrepreneurs, Bloggers, and Developers
Bikash Pun Magar
Panel Discussion – WordCamp through Leads – What, How and Why?
Speaker Type : National
Topic Category : Panel Discussion
Speaker Bio : Bikash is a dreamer, an optimist, WordPress Enthusiast, and a creative designer. He is currently working as a web designer at Nepotech Solutions and one of the active members of WordPress Bharatpur Community from it’s beginning.He started using WordPress platform back in 2013 and continuously gives the contribution to improving WordPress Community either by volunteering in several WordCamps or by conducting several WordPress Meetups and promoting WordPress all over Bharatpur city.This year, he is Lead Organizer of WordCamp Bharatpur 2019. He’s dedication and passion towards this awesome WordPress Community will definitely make this event successful.
Session Summary : Since WordCamp is happening first time in Bharatpur and many might have curiosity about what actually is WordCamp, why it is necessary to be conducted and how is being conducted in all over the world including different cities of Nepal and how we can continue conducting WordCamp in Bharatpur every year. We will discuss its importance from leads themselves and different obstacles we face while conducting and how they are solved.
Intended Audience : Everyone
Chitra Raj Bhandari
Marketing WordPress Themes Organically
Topic Category : WordPress Business/Analysis
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio : I am a digital marketing consultant and trainer based in Nepal with proven expertise in WordPress Product Marketing including Organic, Paid, Referral, and Email Marketing. Having worked with some of the greatest WordPress plugin and theme developers, I have hands-on experience in gaining tangible return on investment (RoI) for WordPress product developers and marketers.
As part of my digital marketing strategies, I rely heavily on Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Influence Marketing, and Data-Driven Analysis for preparing and executing scalable digital marketing campaigns.
Session Summary : In this presentation, I will be exploring the ways that WordPress Theme developers can increase sales/downloads of their themes along with methods for collecting marketing data and making data-driven decisions.
The session is divided broadly into two sections- first getting traffic and second collecting data and making data-driven decisions.
There are many ways a website or a theme marketplace can get traffic online. But this session will primarily focus on marketing WordPress themes using WordPress.org and search engine optimization methods including content, onsite and technical elements of a website.
The second part of the session will focus on data collection and analysis and the ways these data could be used for analyzing returns from various marketing campaigns and making data-centric marketing decisions.
Intended Audience : Developers, Marketers, Owners
Kovid Panthy
How WordPress Started Me on The Road To Brand Building!
Topic Category : Analysis/ WordPress Design and Development
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio : Kovid Panthy is an Entrepreneur and an Author. He runs a tech firm named Techsamaj Web Pvt. Ltd. Kovid also has authored a book called “Hero Python” where he guides a beginner on learning Python Programming. He teaches people in his private mentorship program about programming and marketing. His portfolio contains people from 15 different countries who have successfully worked with him. Kovid was awarded as an IBM Champion by IBM, Inc. He has also got the title of Wai Wai Glocal’s 20under20.
Session Summary : The session by Kovid Panthy explains how WordPress has helped him leverage the time to build his businesses online and get more traction in this competitive market. Kovid will be sharing about his experience with WordPress and sharing how many different things that he had tried failed and how WordPress saved thousands of dollars like an angel. The session will comprise off of tips required for starting a successful personal brand or online business too.
Intended Audience : Everyone
Madan Panthi
WordPress Basic to Advanced Customization Workshop
Speaker Type : National
Topic Category : Workshop
Speaker Bio : Madan is a full-time developer, currently leading the technical team of Sriyog.com. He has been into WordPress and PHP development for the last 4 years. Apart from programming, he loves teaching, training, poetry, literature and sometimes lying in his room doing nothing. He is also involved in social activities and strongly belives to bring change through technology.
Session Summary : Workshop is basically about learning how to customize WordPress from basic to advanced level. Workshop will cover below listed topics.
- Xampp Installation
- WordPress Installation
- Basic Theme Setup
- Basic Plugins Usage
- Basic Theme Customization
- Template Hierarchy Explanation
- Child Theme Creation
- Custom Page Templates Usage explanation
- WP Query Usage Explanation with Examples
- Custom Post Type and Custom Taxonomy Register with Examples
- Custom Fields Usage with Examples
- Action and Filters Basic Explanation
- init hook
- enqueue hook
- wp_head, wp_footer hooks
- the_title, the_content filters usage explanation with examples
Intended Audience : Everyone
Madhav Dhungana
Building Business on WordPress
Topic Category : WordPress Business
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio : Madhav Dhungana, CEO and Founder of Eagle Eye International Technology operating from Nepal and New Zealand since 8 years. He is co-founder of a startup WordPress agency.
He is fast learner, highly motivated Web Programmer, WordPress Developer, IT entrepreneur, Fintech investor and cyber security enthusiast.Apart from that, He is an easy going person and believes in teamwork. His is IT entrepreneur by hobby and social activist by passion. He is vice president at Rotaract Club of Tilottama, Rupandehi for 2019/2020 and he is Team Lead at WordPress Butwal . When he isn’t playing with a computer screen, he spends time on social activities, hanging out with friends and exploring new places.
Session Summary : I will be sharing knowledge on how to build business on WordPress domain. By learning the best strategy and business practices you will be more confident building your own WordPress agency working for WordPress products and services.
As one of the WordPress worker since 2012 and marketplace seller I will talk about required coding standard, security standard, and best business practice to succeed on WordPress business. Most of the themes and plugins submitted are rejected due to various reason. I will talk about how to get product ideas, how to make themes and plugin that can be approved on WordPress.org, WordPress Marketplaces including themeforest and codecanyon.
Intended Audience : Everyone
Niresh Maharjan
WordPress and AI
Topic Category : Advanced Development
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio : A fresh IT graduate currently working as a WordPress developer. Easily distracted by the latest tech news. Like to stay updated with everything except news and politics. I get a feeling of serious patriotism during Nepali football and cricket match. Cannot say no to plate of momo’s.
Session Summary : I will be talking about how ways that Artificial Intelligence can upgrade our experience on our website, how can we increase visitors count, automate our task, increase efficiency and so on. Also, I will also show a simple way on how can we start implementing AI on our websites with some examples on how AI has already swept the market.
Intended Audience : Beginners
Rahul D Sarker
Lead Generation Techniques for your WordPress Website
Topic Category : WordPress Business
Speaker Type : International
Speaker Bio : Rahul D Sarker is a WordPress Developer & Digital Marketing Consultant, based out of Kolkata. He is working with WordPress for the past 7 years. Apart from that, He conducts lots of Training & Workshops in Kolkata & other metro cities in India on Web Development and Digital Marketing. Currently, handing 2 startups and working with few communities very closely. Apart from that, He is a big foodie and self-proclaimed proud solo traveller.
Session Summary : The lead generation process is one of the keys and the backbone of any product or service-based company. In my talk I will be addressing this problem and be sharing how to generate the right kind of leads, that can easily be converted by the Sales Team while also improving the overall experience of the new customer.
Intended Audience : Business owners, Startups & Freelances
Sagar Chhetri
Starting my career as a WordPress Developer(Opportunities/Challenges)
Topic Category : Analysis/ WordPress Design and Development
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio : I am a graduate student of Bachelor in computer science and information technology from Tribhuwan University. I joined Code Pixelz Media as a WordPress Developer during my fifth semester. It’s been 2 years that I have started my career as a developer and I am loving every part of my job without any doubts. I have designed various WordPress themes associating with this company. If I am not working, then I will be traveling to various places, experiencing and knowing the culture of that particular place
Session Summary : As I started working when I was studying my bachelor’s degree in computer science and information technology (CSIT), Most of the people asked me Why WordPress? Why not Python or java or other programming platforms. As a reply, instead, I used to ask them why not WordPress? Why not going for the leading platform in terms of website development? So, in this session, my topic will cover all the career aspects of WordPress and why should you start learning WordPress.
Intended Audience : Everyone
Sakar Upadhyaya Khatiwada
REST API and its implications in WordPress
Topic Category : Advanced Development
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio : I am a Web Developer currently working in Proshore Nepal. I would call myself a PHP and WordPress Enthusiast. I enjoy networking and knowing new people when I am not working. Frequently Rush travelling to different places, I love to taste the local food and drinks and interact with the locals to know more about the place and People. Mostly working on the Backend part I am responsible for making the site more dynamic and easy to manage for the end user.
Session Summary : I will be talking about the “REST API and it Implications in WordPress” which will cover basic introduction to what is REST API and how it is being used in WordPress and what are the implications and usages of the REST API to the development environment.
Intended Audience : Everyone
Saloni Mehta
Fundamental of Writing Secure Code in WordPress
Topic Category : Advanced Development
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio : Saloni Mehta is a senior WordPress plugin developer at AccessPress Themes with 5 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 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 : As a developer we will accidentally write a vulnerable code at some point in our career. Do we need to worry about this?
In her presentation,Saloni will be taking about why it is important to incorporate secure coding practices,what are the major threats and attack. She will be focusing on different methods to implement in code to prevent such attacks.
Intended Audience : Developers
Sandeep Regmi
Integrating themes and plugins to create a professional website
Topic Category : Advanced Development
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio : Sandeep is a passionate coder and currently works @Pioneer Solutions. He had started his professional career from the year 2015. Since then, he has been actively taking part in WordPress community events and also a facilitator in WordPress Bharatpur community. Apart from coding, he loves to share his experience, repair things and travel.
Session Summary : The Presentation will be focused on standard practices to be followed to create a professional website for business/personal purposes, knowing the tactics to choose themes/plugins that suits your requirement and necessary measures for site maintenance.
Intended Audience : Beginners, Mid Level Developers, Entrepreneurs
Sandip Basnet
Optimizing WP Projects with React
Topic Category : Advanced Development
Speaker Type : National
Speaker Bio : I am computer science student, Open source lover, Web Developer love to work on js, mainly with node and react. I like to spend my weekends attending and/or volunteering tech events/conferences in my city and travel often high hills.
Session Summary : Optimizing WordPress Projects is our major concern these days. This talk gives some insights on site optimization using React and Google Dev Tools. We will also learn easy and quickest way of integrating WordPress and React.
Intended Audience : Developers
Santosh Panta
WordPress Basic to Advanced Customization Workshop
Speaker Type : National
Topic Category : Workshop
Speaker Bio : Santosh Panta is a student in Balkumari college BICTE and also have been working as a professional web developer since 2017. In 2018 he had attended one WordPress meetup that changes a whole lot of his development career.
He started getting more and more interested in WordPress and WordPress meetup and community. He started developing his websites and application in WordPress and converted old websites and application in WordPress. Most of his work depends upon the outstanding WordPress cms now.
Session Summary : Workshop is basically about learning how to customize WordPress from basic to advanced level. Workshop will cover below listed topics.
- Xampp Installation
- WordPress Installation
- Basic Theme Setup
- Basic Plugins Usage
- Basic Theme Customization
- Template Hierarchy Explanation
- Child Theme Creation
- Custom Page Templates Usage explanation
- WP Query Usage Explanation with Examples
- Custom Post Type and Custom Taxonomy Register with Examples
- Custom Fields Usage with Examples
- Action and Filters Basic Explanation
- init hook
- enqueue hook
- wp_head, wp_footer hooks
- the_title, the_content filters usage explanation with examples
Intended Audience : Everyone
Subhasis Chatterjee
Is Content really the king!
Topic Category : Blogging, Content Writing
Speaker Type : International
Speaker Bio : Subhasis Chatterjee is a Web Journalist, Content Architect, Content Analyst from Kolkata, India with an experience legacy of more than 24 years. He is an Author, Blogger, Traveller and a Keynote Speaker. He is a Social Media Influencer too. His core competency lies in the areas of Personal Branding, Digital Marketing, Social Media Propagation, Reputation Management & Entrepreneurship Skill Development. He runs an IT company in Kolkata since 2004. Apart from different IT services, ConnectIndia is engaged in offering a host of Tech and Non-Tech workshops and training programs across India and abroad. He is a Mozillian since last 3+ years, contributing in the areas of Web Literacy, Advocacy, Localization and Social Media Branding. He is the founder of Indus Youniverse, a Mozilla Club.
Session Summary : Content itself is no more the king. It is the Content Marketing which is prime to make your content visible,penetrating. Content is the core. Content is required for growth. But Content distribution is the key. In my session, I’ll show, how this era of Content marketing can engage, attract and convert your business in style.
Intended Audience : Anybody who is passionate about content, blogging, WordPress, Personal Branding, Freelancing, Digital Marketing.
Utsav Singh Rathour
Panel Discussion – WordCamp through Leads – What, How and Why?
Speaker Type : National
Topic Category : Panel Discussion
Speaker Bio : Utsav likes to call himself a wannabe because he wants to be so many things. He is a developer by heart, runs a WordPress based service-focused digital Agency and a few WordPress based products. His newfound love is Youtube, where he runs a tech review channel called Uv Reviews and sometimes adds travel videos on his personal channel.
He has been in the WordPress ecosystem for 11 years and just loves how active and welcoming this community is. He is the current lead organizer for WordCamp Kathmandu and a part of WordCamp Kathmandu since the very first. He is also an active speaker having spoken in around 8 WordCamps in different cities since 2012.
He loves to talk to new people, especially from the community. So if you see him around, say hi or if you are shy, he’s also on twitter.
Session Summary : Since WordCamp is happening first time in Bharatpur and many might have curiosity about what actually is WordCamp, why it is necessary to be conducted and how is being conducted in all over the world including different cities of Nepal and how we can continue conducting WordCamp in Bharatpur every year. We will discuss its importance from leads themselves and different obstacles we face while conducting and how they are solved.
Intended Audience : Everyone
Yam Bahadur Chhetri
Panel Discussion – WordCamp through Leads – What, How and Why?
Speaker Type : National
Topic Category : Panel Discussion
Speaker Bio : Yam is the Co-founder at Web Experts Nepal, an outsourcing and custom WordPress site Development Company and Theme Palace, which offers Nepal’s first curated WordPress Theme Marketplace. Being a former WordCamp Speaker and co-organizer of WordCamp Nepal 2015, Yam took part in the WordCamp Europe event in Vienna last June, WordCamp Ubud 2017. In 2016, he co-organized first ever WordCamp Kathmandu Nepal 2016. From all this experience, he successfully accomplished WordCamp Kathmandu 2017 & 2018 as a Lead Organizer . He is also one of the organizers from first ever WordCamp Asia 2020 happening next year in Bangkok.
Session Summary : Since WordCamp is happening first time in Bharatpur and many might have curiosity about what actually is WordCamp, why it is necessary to be conducted and how is being conducted in all over the world including different cities of Nepal and how we can continue conducting WordCamp in Bharatpur every year. We will discuss its importance from leads themselves and different obstacles we face while conducting and how they are solved.
Intended Audience : Everyone