WordCamp Rajasthan 2026 is bringing WordCamp to Jaipur for the first time, on 3–4 October at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jhalana Doongri, and I’ll be there. I’m co-leading a hands-on workshop with Hardik Sharma on Sunday, and I’ll spend the rest of the event in the hallways, at the chai counter, and anywhere people want to talk about AI and WordPress.
This is Rajasthan’s first state-level WordCamp. It brings the meetup communities of Jaipur, Ajmer, Udaipur, Kota, Alwar and Bhilwara together in one building, and the organisers expect more than 600 people. For a community that has been running meetups and Campus Connect sessions for years, this is a big moment, and I’m glad to be part of it.
Here’s where you’ll find me.
Contributor Day, 3 October
Saturday is Contributor Day, where people work alongside experienced table leads on code, design, documentation and translation.
If you’ve been curious about the Abilities API or the MCP Adapter and want to contribute, find me. There’s plenty of room for new contributors, and the best way in is to pick up one small issue and ship it.
On stage, 4 October
Let AI Operate Your WordPress Site, But How?
Deepak Gupta & Hardik Sharma · Track 2 · 1:30 PM IST · Hands-on workshop
This is not a talk where you watch slides. You’ll build it yourself, on your own laptop.
We start at the very beginning: what a WordPress site actually needs to run (a web server, PHP, a database) and why that setup used to stop most people before they started. Then we spin up a local site in about a minute and look at something almost no site owner has ever seen: the full list of things their site is willing to let a machine do.
From there, we cover the two pieces that make AI-operated WordPress possible:
- The Abilities API, introduced in WordPress 6.9, which lets core and plugins describe what they can do in a machine-readable way.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol), the open standard AI tools use to discover and call those abilities.
Then it’s hands-on. You’ll register your own custom abilities in code, expose them over MCP, connect an AI client like Claude, and ask it in plain English to publish a post, change a setting, and install a plugin. It will do all three.
The part I care about most comes last. You’ll switch one ability off, ask the AI again, and watch it refuse. Most people have never decided what they’d let an AI do on their site. By the end of this session, you will have, and you’ll know exactly where the off switch is.
You’ll leave with:
- A local WordPress site connected to an AI client
- Custom abilities you wrote yourself
- The ability to revoke AI access in under a minute
- A checklist you can apply to a live client site the same week
Bring a charged laptop. Whether you run client sites, a WooCommerce store, a content-heavy blog, or build plugins, you’ll walk out with working code, not just notes. See the full schedule or grab your ticket if you haven’t yet.
Why this topic, and why now
I build AcrossAI, self-hosted MCP tooling that lets AI assistants work directly inside a WordPress site without routing data through a third-party relay. Before that, I spent years as a senior engineer on high-traffic sites that handle live payments, like GiveWP.com and BuddyBoss.com. I also contribute to the WordPress MCP Adapter and join the Core AI team’s weekly meetings.
All of that has left me with one question I keep coming back to: where should the line sit between what an AI agent is allowed to do on your site and what it isn’t? The technology to let AI run WordPress already exists. What’s missing is the habit of deciding, on purpose, what it can touch. That’s what this workshop is really about.
Come say hello
Whether you want to talk about the Abilities API, MCP, connecting Claude or ChatGPT to a membership or LMS site, keeping member data on your own server, or just want to say hi, come find me. Some of my best conversations at WordCamps have started in the lunch line.
You can also reach me before the event on X, LinkedIn or WordPress.org. For event updates, follow @wprajasthan.
After Jaipur
If you miss us in Jaipur, I’ll be speaking at the WordPress Mumbai meetup on 10 October, and co-running the “Connecting WordPress and MCP” workshop at WordCamp Bengaluru on 22 November.
Padharo mhare desh. See you in Jaipur!