Your first WordCamp. More than a third of the people at the first WordCamp Bengaluru had never been to a WordCamp before. If that is you this year, this post goes through Sunday 22 November in order: when to arrive, which talks to pick, where people meet, and what happens after.
There are four suggested routes through the sessions, two of them with no code, plus notes for anyone travelling in. General Admission is ₹800 for both days, lunch included.
Sunday 22 NovSJBHS, Museum Road
How the Sunday goes.
On Sunday 22 November a few hundred people walk into St Joseph’s Boys’ High School on Museum Road, half a kilometre from MG Road metro. At the first WordCamp Bengaluru, in 2023, more than a third of them had never been to a WordCamp.
If you are one of the new ones this year, this is what the day looks like and where to be when. It takes about seven minutes to read.
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The day
From Saturday night until 17:30 on Sunday.
21 Nov, evening
The night before
Most of the prep happens in a browser tab on Saturday night.
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Star your talks on the schedule. Starred then shows only your picks.Scroll the attendees page. Some of those faces will be in the coffee queue.Your confirmation email on your phone, and a photo ID to match the badge.A light jacket. November runs about 15 to 28°C, and the mornings are cool.Leave ten minutes earlier than you think you need to. Sunday traffic is still Bengaluru traffic.
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Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, further?
More than ninety places to sleep sit within two kilometres of the venue, from an ₹878 dorm bed on Church Street to the Oberoi. November is a busy month here, so book early.
Where to staysorted by price, measured from the venueGetting to Bengaluruthe airport, the stations and the bus stand
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Your ticket also makes you eligible for Contributor Day on Saturday 21 November, at Bangalore International Centre in Domlur: a day of working on WordPress itself, in groups by area. Separate free sign-up, limited seats. The form goes up on the tickets page closer to the date. How the weekend works covers Saturday in full.
Doors open
Walking in
Registration and breakfast take the first hour, and it is the quietest part of the day, so it is a good time to arrive. Pick up your badge at the desk and get a coffee.
The school opened in 1858. The talks are in two halls a minute apart, Xavier Hall and Concert Hall.
Some people there have known each other for years through the monthly meetups. Plenty know nobody yet.
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Line 1 is printed across the top of the real schedule page. Filter coffee and snacks run through the day, and lunch is on the ticket.
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Before the room fills. WordCamp Bengaluru 2024.
Opening remarks
Your first talk
Opening remarks at 09:00, the first talk at 09:15, and from 10:00 both halls run side by side until the end of the day. Most sessions this year involve AI in some way. Two of the four routes below need no code.
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Four ways through the day.
Xavier Hall30-minute talks and both panelsConcert Hall15-minute lightning talks, back to back, and the workshopA minute apart, so hopping between them at the quarter hour is easy, and you can mix routes freely.
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You build sites, plugins or products
Agents, plugins and MCP, mostly in code.
How an AI agent works in WordPressAnurag BhandariXavier Hall · 30 min talkBeyond the Boilerplate: Building High-Quality WordPress Plugins with AINirbhay Singh RaoXavier Hall · 30 min talkConnecting WordPress and MCPDeepak Gupta, Sourabh Matolia, Nagesh PaiConcert Hall · 60 min workshopI Gave AI My WordPressAnindo Neel DuttaXavier Hall · 30 min talkOur secret sauce for keeping 24/7 AI agents affordableSouptik DattaConcert Hall · 15 min lightningAgents in ProductionDhanendran Rajagopal, Animesh Dutta, Vedanshu JainXavier Hall · 45 min panel
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You run an agency, freelance or own a business
Clients, pricing, churn and GST, with no code.
Tokens to Dollars: Building Tools that AutoSellGulshan IyerXavier Hall · 30 min talkThe Structural Churn and The WalkawayRaja MohammedConcert Hall · 15 min lightningFrom Code to Boardroom: The Real Business Impact of AI in WordPress TeamsKakshak KalariaConcert Hall · 15 min lightningSame Work, Same Quality, Different ResponseAjay M AravindXavier Hall · 30 min talkWhat Clients Actually Pay For NowFarhana Parveen, Sahithya B A, Anupma Singh, Smriti MishraXavier Hall · 45 min panelGST MythPK Prahlad KulkarniConcert Hall · 15 min lightningBuilding the Plane While Flying It: a zero downtime Webflow to WordPress migrationAmit SinghXavier Hall · 30 min talk
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You write, publish or market
Getting found by AI search, and AI that keeps to the brief.
From Editorial Workflow to AI Discovery: Making WordPress Content Machine-Readable and FindablePreetika ThakurConcert Hall · 15 min lightningAI Agents to Turn Your WordPress Blog into Short VideosSudip BhattacharyaConcert Hall · 15 min lightningMaking AI Reliable for Editorial WorkflowsRishit GuptaConcert Hall · 15 min lightningBeyond Rankings: Making WordPress Content Discoverable in the AI Search EraAbheesh DokrasConcert Hall · 15 min lightningRegional Content Is the New Global ContentSubhasis ChatterjeeConcert Hall · 15 min lightning
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You are curious where it is all going
The wider view: brand, platforms, teams, and AI outside tech.
WordPress Has Entered the ChatKarthik SrinivasanConcert Hall · 15 min lightningBeyond Traditional WordPress: Building for the Modern Web in the Age of AIRaghunath JConcert Hall · 15 min lightningOperationalising AI after the easy gainsJoel AbreoXavier Hall · 30 min talkFrom Conversation to Conversion: Building Execution-First AI for B2BRavi ChillaraConcert Hall · 15 min lightningAI as a Contributor: Et tu, Brute?Dr Rahul D AroraConcert Hall · 15 min lightning
Every title opens its session page. Found your picks? Star them on the schedule, and Starred shows only those, ready to print.
The law oftwo feet
Talk not for you? You can leave.
Nobody minds if you walk out partway. Open Space events call this the law of two feet. Try the other hall, get another coffee, or talk to someone in the corridor.
If there is a talk you came for, be in the room. Very few past talks from here ended up on WordPress.tv.
Coffee break, 30 min
The hallway track
At 11:00 the corridors fill up. Regulars call this the hallway track, and plenty of them say it is the best part of the day. You do not need an opener: "Which talk were you in?" is enough.
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A group standing in a circle leaves a gap for one more person, like Pac-Man’s mouth. See a gap, step into it. Standing in a circle yourself, leave one.
between sessions
by the booths
Wear your badge where people can read it. It saves a lot of introductions.
Everyone running the day is a volunteer. This year’s organizing team includes a school principal, a banker and a teacher, all giving up their weekends for it. Nobody bought a speaking slot either: WordCamps do not sell them.
Photos: WordCamp Bengaluru 2025.
Group photo, then lunch
The photo, then lunch
At 13:15 everyone heads out, and at 13:30 the whole conference stands together for the group photo. Stand anywhere. It is the only time the whole conference is in one place.
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at the first WordCamp Bengaluru had never been to a WordCamp before. About 120 of the 330 people who came.
The group photo, WordCamp Bengaluru 2023.
Lunch and networking, 45 min
Lunch is at shared tables, which makes it the easiest time of the day to meet people. Sit somewhere with an empty chair and ask the others what they do with WordPress. People switch tables halfway through.
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A first-timer at a WordCamp got lost in a talk, tried to slip out early for lunch, and tripped in the aisle in front of the whole room. Afterwards a stranger got talking to them and took them to lunch with his group.
A year laterThey were on stage, giving a talk of their own.
Quiz and raffle
The last hour
The afternoon talks start at 14:30 and run until 16:15, followed by a coffee break, the quiz, the raffle and closing remarks.
Coffee breakWordPress quiz30 minSponsor raffle15 minClosing remarks15 minOut onto Museum Roadwith the swag
No official afterparty this year. People make their own plans, usually somewhere on Church Street, and sort them out in the community WhatsApp group. If your lunch table is going, go.
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What people did next.
Four people who started out as first-timers, and where it led.
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2,965
members of the WordPress Bengaluru meetup, which is free and runs every month.
Not everyone you meet will be from Bengaluru, and there are WordPress meetups in cities across India. The groups are moving to WordPress.org, where you join with the same WordPress.org account you bought your ticket with.
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Doors at 08:00.
Sunday 22 November, St Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Museum Road. First time buying a ticket? The ticket guide shows every screen.
You do not need to be a developer. You do not need to know anyone. You only need to walk in.
₹800General AdmissionBoth days, lunch included
₹2,500Friend of #WCBLRAdds an invite to the networking dinner with speakers, sponsors and organizers, and keeps the other tickets cheap
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Photos of WordCamp Bengaluru 2023, 2024 and 2025 and of the WordPress Bengaluru meetup: the WordPress Bengaluru community.
Filter coffee: Vallari.a, Filter kaapi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.
Contributor Day table: priyawurm, WordPress Photo Directory, CC0.
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