ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು. Happy Kannada Rajyotsava. District websites across Karnataka, Kannada news and the city’s stages and campuses run on WordPress, and volunteers have put 95% of WordPress into Kannada.
This post shows where WordPress already is, what the dashboard looks like in Kannada, the people who translated it, and where you come in.
General Admission is ₹800 for both days, lunch included.
1 NovemberKannada Rajyotsava
ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು.
Happy Kannada Rajyotsava.
You’ve probably used WordPress today without seeing its name. Switch it to Kannada, and it answers in Kannada.
Today, 1 November, Karnataka marks the day in 1956 when the Kannada-speaking regions came together as one state. So here’s the WordPress around you, the Kannada it already speaks, and the volunteers who put it there.
Suresha, Riyaz, Arun, Mayank and Yusuf, a line each, then the last one together.
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Share of websites whose platform can be identified. That last share is higher than for any other Indian language we checked. W3Techs, 1 November.
01It’s already around you02It speaks Kannada03The people who translated it04Where you come in
01
It’s already around you
Open your district’s website. Bengaluru Urban, Mysuru, Belagavi and Kalaburagi all open in Kannada, and all run on WordPress. District sites sit on S3WaaS, the platform the National Informatics Centre built on WordPress for government offices, and more than 3,100 government websites have moved onto it. The district court websites for Bengaluru and Mysuru run on it too.
Your news is there as well, and so are the city’s campuses, stages and galleries. So is Bangalore International Centre in Domlur, where WordCamp Bengaluru’s Contributor Day happens.
None of them puts WordPress on the front page. Good software doesn’t need to.
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bengaluruurban.nic.inBengaluru Urbanಕನ್ನಡbangalorerural.nic.inBengaluru Ruralಕನ್ನಡmysore.nic.inMysuruಕನ್ನಡudupi.nic.inUdupiಕನ್ನಡbelagavi.nic.inBelagaviಕನ್ನಡkalaburagi.nic.inKalaburagiಕನ್ನಡ
// district_courts
bengaluru.dcourts.gov.inBengalurumysuru.dcourts.gov.inMysuru
// your_news
kannadadunia.comKannada Duniaeesanje.comEe Sanjehosadigantha.comHosa Diganthastarofmysore.comStar of Mysore
// evenings_out
rangashankara.orgRanga Shankarabangaloreliteraturefestival.orgBangalore Literature Festivalmap-india.orgMuseum of Art & Photographyindianmusicexperience.orgIndian Music Experience
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bangaloreinternationalcentre.orgBangalore International Centre
We checked each one in its own page source on 1 November. ಕನ್ನಡ marks the ones that open in Kannada.
02
It speaks Kannada
Switch WordPress to Kannada and the whole dashboard follows. These words come straight from the official Kannada language pack for WordPress 7.1.4.
The top bar greets you with ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಾ instead of “Howdy”. And the first post on every new site, “Hello world!”, arrives as ಹಲೋ ವರ್ಲ್ಡ್!
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Open playground.wordpress.net/?language=kn and a complete WordPress starts in your browser, in Kannada. Close the tab and it’s gone.
03
The people who translated it
None of this is machine translation. People wrote every Kannada line in WordPress, and an editor approves each one before it goes live.
12,657pieces of text in WordPress 7.1, from menu items to error messages95%of them in Kannada62,000words, give or take80contributors: 27 on the team today, 53 who helped in earlier years
Three general editors and four project editors check the work.
The first Kannada WordPressVersion 3.6, on kn.wordpress.org.31% to 82%The Bengaluru WordPress meetup ran translation sessions, and teachers and students from a high school joined in. It took one month.Every big release, in KannadaStarting with WordPress 6.6, in August 2024.WordPress 7.1.4The latest release. Download it in Kannada at kn.wordpress.org.
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WordPress 7.1 itself: the dashboard, editor and settings95%kn.wordpress.org, WordPress’s own Kannada website95%
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The plugin and theme pages on WordPress.orgAbout 20%The WordPress.org support forums14%The WordPress app for Android11%The most-installed plugins we checked0 to 10%The WordPress app for iPhone and iPad6%Twenty Twenty-Five, the default theme for new sites0%
WordPress itself is nearly done. What sits around it, and what people install on top of it, mostly isn’t yet.
04
Where you come in
Any dayFrom wherever you are
Suggest a translation
That gap is open to anyone who reads Kannada. You suggest translations at translate.wordpress.org, one phrase at a time, signed in with a WordPress.org account, the same one you need to buy a WordCamp ticket. An editor checks every suggestion, and none of it needs code.
Sat 21 NovBIC, Domlur
Contributor Day
Contributors spend the day working on WordPress itself, at Bangalore International Centre. A WordCamp ticket makes you eligible at no extra cost, but seats are limited and take their own sign-up, which opens closer to the date.
Sun 22 NovSJBHS, Museum Road
The talks
Sunday is at St Joseph’s Boys’ High School on Museum Road. If you publish for Karnataka, in Kannada or in English, three short Concert Hall talks are for you.
Being found in AI search
Beyond Rankings: Making WordPress Content Discoverable in the AI Search Era
Abheesh Dokras
Turning blog posts into short videos
AI Agents to Turn Your WordPress Blog into Short Videos
Sudip Bhattacharya
Why regional content is the new global content
Regional Content Is the New Global Content
Subhasis Chatterjee
Star the ones you want on the full schedule, or see the whole day in our WordPress and AI guide.
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WordCamp Bengaluruವರ್ಡ್ಕ್ಯಾಂಪ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು
WordCamp is where the people behind sites like these get together: developers, designers, editors, translators and people who taught themselves. Bring a question about a site you use, or one you’d like to build, in English or in Kannada.
The Kannada name sits next to ours at the top of every page of this site. Namma WordPress, in both scripts.
₹800General AdmissionBoth days, lunch included.
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