A talk tells you what’s possible. A workshop puts a laptop in front of you and doesn’t let you leave until you’ve built it. WordCamp Rajshahi 2026 has three of these lined up, and they cover ground most conference schedules treat as three separate audiences: performance engineering, AI agent workflows, and visual page building. This year, you don’t have to pick a lane, you just have to pick a seat.
What’s on the Workshop Schedule?
- Arafat Islam, Founder, Softias, The Hidden Performance Layer: Mastering Object Caching in WordPress
- Muntasir Sakib, Founder, BestInWP, How I Connected Claude AI to WordPress Using MCP
Key Takeaways
- Object caching, demystified: Arafat takes you below the surface of “install a caching plugin” and into how object caching actually behaves on a live WordPress site, and where it quietly decides whether a site feels fast or sluggish.
- An AI agent, wired into WordPress, with zero code: Muntasir walks through connecting Claude AI to WordPress using the Model Context Protocol, built around a real agency workflow rather than a proof-of-concept demo.
Meet the Workshop Leads
1. Arafat Islam – Founder, Softias
Workshop: The Hidden Performance Layer: Mastering Object Caching in WordPress
Arafat founded Softias, the company behind a growing lineup of developer-focused products including XeroWP, Depnix, SiteBot, and Wooless, after years spent deep in WordPress, WooCommerce, and server performance work, including time at weDevs contributing to Appsero and Dokan Cloud. Object caching rarely gets its own session at conferences because it sits below the surface, buried under the plugins and dashboards everyone actually sees, which is exactly why he built a workshop around it.
Expect this one to skip the marketing pitch for caching plugins and go straight into how object caching behaves under real traffic, and the specific decisions that make or break a site’s speed once you understand it properly.
2. Muntasir Sakib – Founder, BestInWP
Workshop: How I Connected Claude AI to WordPress Using MCP, A Real Agency Workflow Without Writing a Single Line of Code
Muntasir has six-plus years in WordPress, including four and a half at Ollyo, and runs BestInWP, a YouTube channel built on a strict no-paid-reviews policy and honest plugin breakdowns. In 2026 he pivoted hard into agentic AI, and this workshop is the direct result: a live build connecting Claude AI to WordPress through the Model Context Protocol, designed around how an actual agency would use it day to day.
Come prepared. This is a live, hands-on build, so to get the full value, bring:
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Laptop | Windows or Mac, with internet access |
| Claude Desktop app | Free download at claude.ai/download |
| WordPress site | Staging or local (LocalWP works fine), with admin access |
| Novamira account | Free, set up in advance at novamira.ai |
Optional but helpful: Elementor and RankMath active on the same site. No coding experience needed, if you can install a WordPress plugin, you’re ready for this one.
Why These Workshops Matter
Talks are where you collect ideas. Workshops are where you find out whether those ideas survive contact with a real codebase, a real WordPress install, and your own laptop. Three different rooms, three different skill sets, one shared outcome: you walk out having built something, not just having heard about it.
Bring a laptop, charge it fully, and pick the workshop that matches what you actually want to walk away knowing.
Contributor Day: 2nd July 2026 | Conference Day: 3rd July 2026 | 📍 RUET Auditorium, Rajshahi