Contributor Day at WordCamp KL 2018

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We are very excited to announce that WordCamp KL 2018 will feature a Contributor Day on Sunday, November 18th!

Please extend a warm welcome and a big THANK YOU to our Contributor Day Event Sponsor: DOJO KL, a dynamic, community-focused coworking space in downtown KL.

DOJO co-working space logo

DOJO empowers the creative and entrepreneurial community by creating inspiring workspaces, organizing educational and social events, and providing personalized services to help members grow. They take a people first approach, and we are very happy to have their support!

DOJO Boardroom

What is Contributor Day?

WordPress is an open source software project, which means that it relies on volunteers to contribute their time to maintain and advance the project. One of the ways to do that is to get more people involved – that’s where Contributor Day comes in!

Those who are ready to contribute will all meet at DOJO KL on Sunday the 18th (the day after WordCamp KL) where we will be guided in how to give back to WordPress. If you have never contributed before, this is a great chance to learn! If you have experience, you can apply it by helping others get started 🙂

Some examples of things we’ll be doing:

  • Setting up your WordPress.org profile and joining the Slack channel
  • Replying to open support tickets on WordPress.org
  • Testing Gutenberg
  • “Un-conference”, impromptu presentations

In addition to all that, FREE LUNCH will be provided!

To attend Contributor Day at WCKL2018, please RSVP to the event at the WordPress KL Meetup page.

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Thank you to our Silver Sponsors!

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We want to thank all of our Silver Sponsors for making this event possible!

We couldn’t offer an amazing WordCamp experience without our wonderful sponsors. The contributions of our sponsors help to offset the large expenses involved with organising an event. Their generosity and support make it possible to bring the publishing community together for two days of learning, collaboration and fun.

Please visit our Silver sponsors;

GoDaddy

GoDaddyGoDaddy Pro offers a robust suite of free tools to web developers & designers to help them save time managing all their clients and sites. With GoDaddy Pro, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage all their WordPress websites from one place.

When you pair GoDaddy Pro with GoDaddy hosting products, the benefits are even greater.

Check out the Free Tools

Bluehost

BluehostBluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.

Cleverus

CleverusCleverus is one of the most talented experts with a range of skills that have come together to elevate the presence of businesses through excellent marketing services with no sacrifice to the quality of work. As the leading expert in the region with experience in both digital marketing and search engine optimization (SEO), Cleverus Consulting has a proven track record of satisfied customers around the world and various awards won.

WP Developer

WP Developer

WPDeveloper is a dedicated marketplace for WordPress plugins, themes, and subsystems. The underlying technology of WP Developer marketplace makes the delivery and maintenance of WordPress products easier for both developers and users.

Essential Addons For Elementor
Twitter Cards Meta
WP Scheduled Posts
Flexia – Versatile theme for WordPress 

Get connected with WP Developer on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

WordCamp Kuala Lumpur Speakers: Round Three

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We’re honored to announce the third round of the WordCamp Kuala Lumpur 2018 speakers! If you missed the previous announcements, you may view them here: Round One and Round Two.

Lee Wai Hong

Lee Wai Hong has been using WordPress for more than 10 years. He runs a small web design firm in Kuala Lumpur and has created more than 200 websites.

He is also a former Ketua Pemuda for KLSCAH (Kuala Lumpur & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall). They did a crowdfunding project within the GE14 called “UnidRabu.com” to fund free bus transportation for voters.

You can find Wai Hong on Facebook.

Ivan Kristianto

Ivan Kristianto is a Senior Web Engineer at 10up, a global technology agency serving enterprise clients from various industries.

As part of the team, his focus is mainly in WordPress and React. Ivan is active in the Indonesia WordPress community and has organized and spoken at both meetups and WordCamps there.

Ivan has spent the last 10 years developing web applications, mostly for digital agencies. He loves to explore new web technologies—like AMP, PWA, Service Worker, Docker, and React, and has been a major contributor to some WordPress plugins and WordPress Core.

Prasanth Nadarajah

Prasath Nadarajah is currently working as a WordPress Engineer at Humanmade. He has more than 8 years of experience working with WordPress, including 6 years of enterprise experience.

He previously worked at Automattic, Penkse Media Corporation and 10up. He has also contributed to WordPress Core and been credited in a couple of WordPress releases.

Tickets for WCKL 2018 On Sale!

WordCamp KL 2018 tickets are still available! Get yours today!

Thank you to our Gold Sponsors!

Posted on by Sam Suresh

We want to thank all of our Gold Sponsors for making this event possible!

We couldn’t offer an amazing WordCamp experience without our wonderful sponsors. The contributions of our sponsors help to offset the large expenses involved with organising an event. Their generosity and support make it possible to bring the publishing community together for two days of learning, collaboration and fun.

Please visit our Gold sponsors;

Themeum

ThemeumThemeum is a WordPress based products company with a devoted team of expert professionals aiming to offer quality themes and plugins. With a good number of nicely designed themes and powerful plugins, the company serves a huge number of customers around the world. Themeum is always keen on bringing new WordPress products that help the community build a great web presence.

Some of the most notable Themeum products are:

Find Themeum on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Medium, Pinterest

Exabytes Network

Exabytes NetworkMalaysia Web Hosting, Domain Name, Server, Website Design And Digital Marketing We provide an All-in-One solution to grow your business online. Affordable Online Solutions for any types of business! Our web hosting plans provide emails, websites and more to kickstart your online presence; high specs servers and digital marketing services to improve your website traffic and conversion; domains to establish your online brand; web design services to make your website go live within 7 days!

RunCloud

RunCloudRunCloud is a SaaS platform that makes managing Cloud Servers and deploying PHP Web Applications easier than ever before.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.

Jetpack

JetpackTransform how you work with your WordPress sites and rest easy knowing they’re always firing on all cylinders. Jetpack connects your site to the global services, community, and support provided by WordPress.com so you can focus on the stuff that matters.

Make your site work for you. Get your Jetpack today at Jetpack.com

TELEAWAN SDN. BHD

TELEAWAN SDN. BHDTeleawan helps clients to plan and execute successful programs in the area of IT security, database maintenance and management, backup solutions and cloud solutions through our vast experience and capabilities, consultation, training and support. Our services were offered to government agencies and department, and enterprise clients. Teleawan Sdn Bhd. is a subsidiary of Astiostech Sdn Bhd.

WordCamp Kuala Lumpur Speakers: Round Two

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*Drumroll* Here comes our second announcement of WordCamp Kuala Lumpur 2018 speakers! This round we have three speakers to introduce. If you missed the previous announcement, you may view it here.

Suraya Zainudin

Suraya is an independent communications consultant specialising in online content creation and management. She is popularly known as the blogger behind personal finance blog Ringgit Oh Ringgit, where she chronicles her personal finance journey as a Millennial Malaysian.

Aisyah Rozi

Aisyah Rozi is the Operation Manager at Laman7, where she manages a team of graphic designers and web developers. She started out as a self-taught web designer and blogger in her hometown of Shah Alam, and now Aisyah has over a decade of experience in the field of design.

Besides web design, Aisyah studied architecture and worked at a top Malaysian architecture firm. Today, she is focused on design and digital marketing, helping create engaging content and improvements in UX design. 

Lorna Timbah

Lorna is a huge fangirl of WordPress since she discovered it in 2007, further solidifying her love for building on the Web. Her 20 years of back-end development experience consists of LAMP (16 years) and MEAN (5 years, leaning towards AngularJS) stacks, with Cordova added to the mix. She spends her free time teaching coding and tech topics to communities for free, specifically on Google and open source solutions, with a focus on women and youth groups, in hopes of increasing inclusion in the tech industry.

She’s a proud K-pop fan and jams to GOT7, BtoB, WINNER, and 2NE1 (RIP) while she codes.

Other less exciting facts that nevertheless makes her a lot of money: Lorna is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Google Cloud Platform consultant, and HRDF Certified Trainer.

Tickets for WCKL 2018 On Sale!

WordCamp KL 2018 tickets are still available! Get yours today!

WordCamp Kuala Lumpur Speakers: Round One

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Since the callout for WordCamp Kuala Lumpur 2018 speakers, the organizing team has received a welcoming response from the community. We would like to thank everyone who submitted an application and we appreciate your enthusiasm in contributing to the WordPress community!

In the next few weeks, we’ll be announcing all speakers for WordCamp Kuala Lumpur 2018. That starts today, with our first round of confirmed speakers.

Justin Kopepasah

Justin is a Senior Web Engineer at 10up. His first experience with computer technologies was in grade school. His love for technology never faded and led to a long-term passion for open source and the World Wide Web.

Having worked with enterprise clients and top-level products in the Web industry, his knowledge of both backend and frontend development has made him a talented full-stack Web engineer.

Justin spends his free time continually learning and growing in his field, but his other hobbies include photography, cooking, disc golf and exploring new places.

M Asif Rahman

M Asif Rahman is a long time WordPress Enthusiast, Serial Entrepreneur, and Tech Evangelist. Since 2004, he has been contributing towards the community and working closely with WordPress. He was the CEO of weDevs, a large WordPress product company, just recently retired.

It’s not just about selling WordPress product, Asif is very well spoken about business in the WordPress industry. Apart from weDevs, he is the founder of ARCom, Analytify, Alo Ventures, WPDeveloper (a WordPress product marketplace) and many more.

Asif proudly appeared in nearly 100 WordCamps all around the world and spoken in over 20 WordCamps.

And most importantly, he is a blessed Dad of two super cute little princesses, and husband of a lovely wife! Though he mostly lives in Orlando, Florida, but he’s originally from Bangladesh.

Interestingly, M Asif Rahman has retired this year by the age of 34. He announced his retirement via a 10,000-word semi-autobiography in HeroPress.

Adrian Oh

Adrian Oh co-founded ecInsider.my (formerly known as eCommerceMILO.com), a content site focused on eCommerce, providing insights, know-how and inspiration with the goal of driving the eCommerce industry forward.

He also co-founded Neowave Solutions, makers of the eCommerce platform webShaper, which empowers merchants to build their own branded stores and sell via multiple channels by connecting to the region’s top eMarketplaces like Lazada, Shopee etc.

In 2017, He founded a new multichannel data platform – Zetpy.com, with the goal of enabling merchants to sell across the region’s Top Marketplaces and utilize the data to scale their operation and business.

He is passionate about building community, having founded MECA (Malaysia Ecommerce Aspiration) – an active Facebook community of eCommerce players, currently with over 5000 members.

A computer science graduate with a deep passion for eCommerce, retail & online payments, he occasionally blogs at adrianoh.com.

Tickets for WCKL 2018 On Sale!

WordCamp KL 2018 tickets are still available! Get yours today!

Happy 55th birthday to Malaysia!

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55 years ago on this day, the Federation of Malay united with Sabah (known as North Borneo then), Sarawak and Singapore to form Malaysia. Though Singapore is no longer a member of the federation since 1965, Malaysia has always fought hard in developing the country for its residents and to gain a worldwide recognition.

Image from User:SKopp, distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

On this special day, we would like to share with you 10 fun facts about Malaysia.

Continue reading “Happy 55th birthday to Malaysia!” →

Welcome to WordCamp Kuala Lumpur

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We’re happy to announce that WordCamp Kuala Lumpur is officially on the calendar!

WordCamp Kuala Lumpur will be November 17, 2018 at Royale Chulan Bukit Bintang Hotel.

Here’s how YOU can help us have a super event:

  1. Subscribe to updates using the form at the bottom of this page. You’ll get emails from us when we post #WCKL news on this site.
  2. Apply to be a speaker at #WCKL! We encourage everyone to apply to speak at WordCamp.
  3. Buy your ticket!