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Namma Bengaluru’s very own WordPress gathering is back for 2026, and this year it comes with a theme that reaches well beyond WordPress: WordPress and AI. Two days, two tracks, one Contributor Day, and a whole lot of filter coffee.
WordCamp Bengaluru (WCBLR) is a community-run, not-for-profit conference for everyone building on the open web. Developers, designers, content creators, founders, students, and the plain AI-curious. You don’t have to live inside WordPress to belong here. If you build for the web, there’s a seat for you.
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The theme: WordPress and AI
WordPress now powers over 40% of the web, and right now it’s turning into one of the quiet foundations of the agentic web. WordPress 7.0 shipped an AI Client SDK and an Abilities API straight into core, and it speaks open standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the same plumbing the rest of the AI industry is standardising on. Put simply, the CMS you already know is becoming a place where AI agents can read, write, and ship, with a human approving every step.
That opens up a conversation much bigger than themes and plugins. Here is where we want to spend the two days:
AI-native workflows
Agents that draft, edit, and publish, and what changes for the people who used to do all of that by hand.
Agentic commerce
When the buyer is a bot and the checkout is a conversation. What that means for stores built on the open web.
Open web vs walled gardens
Why open standards and open source still matter when AI is the one doing the browsing.
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What’s in store
You know the shape of a good WordCamp by now: a room full of genuinely enthusiastic people, speakers with stories worth hearing, panels that don’t dodge the hard questions, and a workshop or two to get properly hands-on. This year every one of those turns its attention to where the web is heading.
And there’s more. We’re adding a Contributor Day. Bring a charged laptop and give back to the open source project that quietly runs a huge slice of the internet, whether your thing is code, design, docs, translations, or testing. First-timers welcome, mentors on hand.
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The essentials
DATE
Sat & Sun, 21-22 November 2026
VENUE
SJBHS, Museum Road, central Bengaluru. A short ride from MG Road Namma Metro, with two-wheeler aWCBLR 2026 lands in central Bengaluru, an easy ride away on Namma Metro.nd four-wheeler parking on hand.
FORMAT
Two tracks plus a Contributor Day, around 400 people.
Come build the next web with us
Grab your tickets, and tell a friend who builds cool things, WordPress or not.
See you in November. Bring your questions, your projects, and your curiosity. This one is going to be special.