If you’ve read my posts previously, you’d know how gaga I become over community events and, moreover, WordCamps! The last one was WordCamp Pokhara 2025, and before that, WordCamp Asia 2025.
WordCamp Asia 2025 in the Philippines was special. Really special. Special enough that before I had even properly processed that trip, I had already set my eyes on the next edition, particularly because it was set to happen in India. Perfect, right?
Read about my experience at WordCamp Asia 2025
Except, I couldn’t make it.
There were a lot of things lined up around that time and, somewhere along the way, I ended up taking a break from the community. Which meant watching WordCamp Asia 2026 happen in India from the sidelines. FOMO? Can’t even explain.
But now when I’m back, with all my usual fervour, I think I have found the perfect excuse to make my way back through: WordCamp Rajasthan.
Happening on 3–4 October in Jaipur, this is going to be a particularly fun one for me. I’ll be emceeing, for one, but honestly, that isn’t even the bit I’m most excited about. I’m excited to meet people again, catch up with people I haven’t seen in a while, finally meet folks I’ve only known through screens, and make some new friends along the way. I have a feeling there will also be the usual five completely unplanned conversations between two sessions.
And, of course, I’m excited about the food.
I’m visiting Jaipur for the first time, and I refuse to believe I’m going to leave without trying a ridiculous amount of Rajasthani food. There is also a history walk planned, which is very much my kind of WordCamp side quest. A new city, its history, good food, and a bunch of WordPress folks? I’m sold.
I think I’m also secretly looking forward to recreating a little bit of the WordCamp Bhopal 2023 and WordCamp Asia 2025 magic. Different city, different people, different event, but hopefully that same feeling of being surrounded by people who are building, creating, contributing and generally doing interesting things.
And there’s plenty happening at this one.
WordCamp Rajasthan is the first state-level WordCamp for Rajasthan, bringing together the local WordPress communities from Jaipur, Ajmer, Udaipur, Kota, Alwar and Bhilwara. These communities have collectively been building the ecosystem through meetups, workshops and contributor activities, and now they’re bringing everyone together for a state-level event. With 50+ meetups and 1,000+ members across these city communities, this feels like a pretty exciting moment for the Rajasthan WordPress community.
The event spans two days, with Contributor Day on 3 October and the main conference on 4 October at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur. There are two tracks, 20 talks and workshops, and 22 speakers from India and beyond, covering a rather wide mix of WordPress, AI, development, marketing, accessibility, SEO/AEO/GEO, WooCommerce, plugin development, agency workflows and more.
The speaker list is also an interesting mix of people from across the ecosystem, including international speakers. Jamie Marsland, who leads the WordPress YouTube channel at Automattic, will be there, as will Kotaro Kitamura, founder and CEO of TechBridge in Osaka.
Kotaro is particularly fun for me because I actually got in touch with him while I was deep in my WordCamp Asia 2026 FOMO. He was attending the event, I wasn’t, and we somehow ended up talking. He also happens to love India. And I’m a fan of Japan. So, naturally, I’m looking forward to finally meeting him in person.
There are several other veterans from the WordPress ecosystem joining in too, alongside people working across AI, development, agencies, marketing and open source. Its gonna be a pretty cool of a family reunion.
And if you’re a student, please look at the student ticket option. I genuinely think WordCamps are one of those spaces where you can get far more than what is on the conference schedule. You can meet someone whose work you’ve been following, find a mentor, stumble upon your next project, discover open source, or simply realise that there is an entire ecosystem outside your classroom that you didn’t know existed.
You also don’t have to know everything before you show up. Contributor Day is a particularly good place to start if you’ve been curious about contributing to WordPress, with opportunities around areas like code, documentation, translation, support and more.
For me, though, I’m mostly just excited to be back.
Back in rooms full of people. Back to spontaneous conversations, the chatter. Back to the slightly chaotic, slightly exhausting, very rewarding rhythm that comes with community events. Back to meeting people I haven’t seen in far too long and, hopefully, coming home with a whole new set of stories.
And this time, with a new city to explore.
So, if you missed WordCamp Asia this year, have never been to a big WordCamp, or are simply looking for an excuse to head to Jaipur in October, WordCamp Rajasthan is worth checking out.
You can find all the details and register here: WordCamp Rajasthan 2026.
I’ll see you there — somewhere between the stage, the food, the history walk and probably a conversation that was supposed to take five minutes.