Author: Abul Khayer

I am a Professional Front End Web Developer and Content Writer. I worked on various industrial field on developing website and writing web contents and blog. Now I'm working on the e-Commerce sector in Bangladesh. I'm now working on Wordpress, Opencart, Prestashop and Magento CMS for developing websites.

Life Events

WordCamp Biratnagar 2018, Nepal: My Experience

Post author By Abul Khayer
Post date January 9, 2019
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WordCamp is always a momentous occasion for a WordPress enthusiast to participate. Being a WordPress developer, I also can’t lose the chance to attend one. I attended at WordCamp Biratnagar 2018 in Nepal on 22 December, 2018. It was my first WordCamp participation in my 5 years+ WordPress career. Besides my regular participation, I contributed as an international/traveling speaker.

What is WordCamp?

Before I share the in-and-out of my first WordCamp experience, it’s important to give an idea about WordCamp to them who don’t know. Well, WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. It held worldwide and once a year per city. WordCamps are inclusive, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. You can learn more about WordCamp from the official website of WordCamp Central. It’s an opportunity for people and organizations around WordPress ecosystem to give back to the community with their involvements in WordCamps.

Where & When WordCamp Biratnagar 2018 Was Held?

WordCamp Biratnagar 2018 was held in Biratnagar, the commercial capital of Nepal on Decemeber 22, 2018. Hotel Asiatique was the venue, near the domestic airport. It’s a quite place on Airport Road and easy to move from rest part of the city.

People Behind WordCamp Biratnagar 2018

There were a fantastic organizing team behind WordCamp Biratnagar 2018 with full of enthusiasm lead by Ganga Kafle. The teamwork is praise-worthy with no-doubt. Folks from different parts of the country came across and contribute as organizers and volunteers. It really takes a lot of efforts to organize a WordCamp. Specially, when it’s a first time WordCamp, challenges and barriers are even more than you can imagine. However, they could manage everything very well.

Organizers and Volunteers during Startup Launching Ceremony

Kamal Prasad Sah (Speaker Wrangler), Abi Rana (Design Wrangler), Sujit Jha (Sponsor Wrangler), Saroj Karki (Media/Publicity Wrangler), Parbat Raj Jha (Finance Wrangler), Bicky Tamang (Website Wrangler), Rishav Malla Thakuri (Volunteer Wrangler), Sagar Bahadur Tamang (Venue Wrangler), Siddhant Mandal (Print/Content Wrangler), Aakash Jha (Creative Wrangler) were the folks who worked day and night to make the WordCamp happen. I couldn’t name all here though, but don’t be limited to check this Organizers and Volunteers list.

Who Spoke at WordCamp Biratnagar 2018?

There were a handful of highly skilled and experienced local and international speakers contributed in this WordCamp. The sessions were undoubtedly knowledge worthy for the audience. Prakash Upreti, Saroj Karki, Ganga Kafle, Kamal Prasad Sah, Sunita Rai, Bibek Sapkota, Pratima Sharma, Prithu Singh Thakuri, Madan Panthi, Abhisek Rijal, Regan Khadgi, Vedanshu Jain, Liton Arefin, Fahad Murtaza, Utsav Singh Rathour and me were in the speakers line-up. Don’t forget to check the Speakers list to learn more about the awesome speakers.

How I Got Involved in WordCamp Biratnagar 2018?

The back story is pretty interesting for me. One fine day (probably September 01, 2018) I received a message on meetup.com from Ganga (the lead organizer of WC Biratngar). Since I’m one of the organizers of Dhaka WordPress Meetup it’s obvious to come get frequent messages. He invited me and other enthusiasts I know in our community to take part and contribute in WordCamp Biratnagar 2018. I found this to be the first WordCamp in Biratnagar and made up my mind to contribute in all possible way. I always have a soft corner for first movers which I can’t deny. I immediately respond to him and showed my interest of contributions. I started looking into the opened scopes of contribution and found speaking very exciting. I also asked few of our community members and companies I know to contribute by sponsoring or any other ways they find suitable.

After getting confirmation of my spot as a speaker I went to prepare presentation and other required staffs to travel. Note that It was my first ever trip to abroad and first ever WordCamp participation.

Journey To Biratnagar, Nepal

It’s really hard to describe the journey in a nutshell. I flew to Kathmandu, Nepal on December 20, 2018 keeping 2 days ahead on hand. It took around 1 hour and 45 minutes to reach Trivuban International Airport, Kathmandu from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka. I had domestic flight from Kathmandu to Biratnagar the same day. After having back to back flight I reached Biratnagar around 6:00 PM in local time. I called Ganga and asked for help to find a hotel nearby. He immediately sent Rishav to pick me to hotel. It was really so sweet of him. He took me to main city where few other organizers were working hard to find suitable hotel for me and other traveling attendees. It’s worth saying that I mostly had interaction with Ganga, Kamal and Rishav in the organizing team. They are such a wonderful guys I can’t explain in words.

Traveling from Dhaka to Kathmandu to attend WordCamp Biratnagar 2018

They brought me to Hotel Eastern Star who really provided best value to stay. I stayed there two days and then moved to the venue hotel on 22nd due to having flight in very early morning the next day.

Pre-Party with Speakers, Organizers and Volunteers

WordCamp Biratnagar 2018 was split into different segments; Pre-Party, Main Event and After Party. On December 21, 2018 at 7:00 PM I attended the pre-party and meet the awesome contributors of WordCamp Biratngar 2018. It was held at Purple Haze a walking distance from the main venue.

We had chat, fun, food over there. We shared knowledge and experiences among us. I made many new friends over there. Some good mention would be Vedanshu Jain, Fahad Murtaza, Liton Arefin, Roy Jme, Prakash Upreti and many others.

WordCamp Day

On 22nd December the main event of WordCamp started. Check in started at 7:45 AM local time and attendees were offered with delicious breakfast. The inaugural ceremony started at 8:50 AM in Nepali tradition which I really loved. Guests, Speakers and Organizers were greeted with due respect.

Right after the inaugural ceremony, the sessions started in two different hall; Danfe and Laligurans. My talk was in Laligurans hall. It was the last session of that hall right after the lunch. During other sessions and lunch break, we took photos around the place, had chat with many attendees, coffee and refreshments and lot of fun.

My Presentation

My talk was on “WordPress Security Fundamentals“. Considering mix audience, I tried to prepare that for both developers and non-developers. I was really very exited for my session for being that my first WordCamp speaking experience. Before that I had pretty much speaking experience though. But not in any WordCamp. I could conducted things well. Honestly speaking, I didn’t feel any hesitation to speak. There was no such feeling inside that I’m speaking in somewhere too far from my neighborhood. It felt like home for me to be in Biratnagar.

I must acknowledge the interest, enthusiasm and coolness of audience at WordCamp Biratnagar 2018. It’s praise worthy how disciplined they are. I saw audience in very few events I’d been like them. Calm, quite and attentive people! You may not need an ice breaker if you speak in Biratnagar. I’m not being biased just because I’d been to there. They really are such attentive audience. I saw them to be in the hall till the end of whole WordCamp.

I took around 25 minutes for my talk. Here’s the slides of my presentation on WordPress Security Fundamentals.

https://www.slideshare.net/MyselfKhayer/wordpress-security-fundamentals-wordcamp-biratnagar-2018

My Presentation Slides on WordPress Security Fundamentals

Wrapping Up WordCamp Biratnagar 2018

The closing ceremony of WordCamp Biratmagar 2018 was very exciting. Organizers gave away “Token of Appreciation” and “Token of Love” to all the organizers, speakers, sponsors and volunteers. I was thrilled to be present at the closing ceremony and receive the honor. I saw happiness and satisfaction in every face.

Wait, it’s not ended yet. Right after the closing ceremony, there was After Party at Purple Haze, the place where the Pre-Party was held. It was a great networking opportunity among organizers, speakers, volunteers and attendees. I got to know new people over there and made new friends. We had snacks there, many photos and fun!

What I’ve Learnt?

WordCamp Biratnagar 2018 was like a learning institution to me. Although I spoke but I’m not geek of all. I learnt a lot from the fellow speakers, representatives of sponsors, organizers and not but the least the audience. I got the chance to be an audience of few sessions. I came across to learn on different topics which was completely new to me. It was a worth lesson for me to learn how you should be positive in hardest and challenging time seeing the organizers. I have to admit that organizing a WordCamp is not an easy task at all to deal with. It’s undoubtedly clear that WordCamp Biratnagar 2018 organizers were capable enough to handle things.

What I’ve Achieved?

As I mentioned earlier, WordCamp Biratnagar was my first WordCamp to date. So, participating that is itself an achievement for me. Speaking at first WordCamp is a bonus! I made friends who were kind enough and lovable. I’ve received at least 50 messages from organizers, fellow speakers, volunteers and participants after returning back to home. They just asked if I could reach safely. Such caring people, so sweet of them.

Attendees from Dhaka with team Everest Theme

All International Speakers with One of the Organizers

Fun Time at After Party with Prakash Upreti

I spent most of my time with Vedanshu Jain, Liton Arefin, Roy Jme, Fahad Murtaza, Prakash Upreti, Kamal Prasad Sah, Ganga Kafle, Rishav and some others. Vedanshu was with me till my boarding of flight to Dhaka from Kathmandu. We became very closed friends during WordCamp Biratnagar. We shared many things between us, we were neighbor in hotel. There are many sweet memories.

Returning from Biratnagar to Kathmandu with Vedanshu Jain

Prakash Upreti is a broad hearten guy who offered all the traveling speakers for trip to some tourist spots in Nepal. Although me and Vedanshu couldn’t make it due to having our return ticket booked. He took other guys. The day we were leaving, Prakash came to pick us to the Airport. He stayed with us till our check-in. We had coffee and lot more discussion in that very early morning. I must take great care of these guys when they visit Dhaka in future. I really learnt from him how to treat your guests. Great man indeed.

Final Words

My experience of WordCamp Biratnagar 2018, can’t be explained even in 10 articles. However, it’s a little effort from me to acknowledge the honor and love I’ve received from Biratnagar and Nepal. I would love to travel more in Nepal in coming days. Nepal is really a piece of beauty. Not only the nature the people who really matter. WordCamp Biratnagar was yet another a successful and last WordCamp of 2018. I feel proud and privileged to be a part of this. It helped me to learn tons of things and encouraged me to increase my involvement in community contribution. I’m hopeful to see those wonderful faces soon again.

That’s all from me now. I’ll share more of my activities in my next blogs. Thank you so much for having your patience to read this article. I wish a prosperous and happy new year to people around the world.

You can watch some beautiful moments of WordCamp Biratnagar in this video created by Focus.

If you want to learn more about me, you can check the About Me page. Need to ask any question? Feel free to ask from the Contact Me page.

Tags Biratnagar, Nepal, Speaker, WCBRT2018, WordCamp, WordPress

Life Events

How’s Our Very First Radio Interview

Post author By Abul Khayer
Post date November 4, 2018
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Audio archive of #Backstage on Radio Dhol 94.0 FM

We the Search English founders were invited for a radio interview today at Radio Dhol 94.0 FM. Before I write my experience I should mention that it was a group interview and my first ever radio interview to date.

This was a special show as part of the celebration of our Founder & CEO, Razib Ahmed‘s selection as fellow for the Facebook Community Leadership Program. The host Abdullah Al Mehedi is an old industry colleague of ours. So it was quite comfortable for me and my fellow co-founders Razib Ahmed and Neyamot Ullah Mohan to be adjusted with.

How’s The Whole Radio Interview?

It was a 2 hours long show from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM local time here in Dhaka. And luckily it’s weekend here and we could reach the studio earlier. Since the host was our industry colleague, we exchanged our greetings and had some photo session before starting the show. I immediately published a post on my Facebook profile to inform our audiences.

Razib Ahmed started as the first story teller in the interview and shared some highlights of our journey as a startup, getting positive responses from our community members, success stories we’ve got so far and achievements of Search English, specially the Facebook Community Leadership Program.

When It Came To My Turn?

Right after the first break, it was then my turn to share my words and shed some lights to our technical developments. I started with sharing the technology we’ve developed and opened for users so far. Our website, self-learning courses, webinar platform, reading portal, more or less everything we have were covered. I’ve also given a sense of what type of tech products for the future we’re currently working on. With that, my first round wrapped up followed by Neyamot Ullah Mohan.

He shared about the challenges exists in building career for millions of youth in Bangladesh right now. We have a ton of skilled man power in various field but they are not getting the right job for lack of communication skills over English he addressed.

After another break, microphone spines around for one more time, we three shared more facts and fictions in between.

Right before the final countdown, we brought one of our group members on-air who came to meet us from all the way Dinajpur. He shared how he’s been being benefited from Search English.

How’s My Experience?

In a word, it was immense pleasure to get a floor and share my thoughts with audience who were in touch with us for couple of years. I agreed for another episode for this show next month where we will likely to bring 7-8 success stories from Search English. After returning from the show, I tweeted my feelings and acknowledged the honor from Radio Dhol.

We were invited for the show #Backstage on @radiodhol hosted by Abdullah Al Mehedi this afternoon. It was immense pleasure for me to share some glimpse of our journey with @GoSearchEnglish on-air. pic.twitter.com/d4WNYlS9BJ
— Md Abul Khayer Sarder (@MyselfKhayer) November 3, 2018

Also published a post on my Facebook page to acknowledge the honor.

That’s all for today, I’d love to share more stuffs happening around regularly. So, stay in touch till my next blog, may be tomorrow!

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Motivation

5 Characteristics Can Change Your Life

Post author By Abul Khayer
Post date April 27, 2016
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Characteristics that can make a huge change of your life. I’m not a motivator but sometime I saw typical things which is very essential for almost everyone. I think that I should share these with others so that they can also apply these changes in their attributes. If I don’t share this message with others, I will be found guilty at a certain time.

Who don’t want to be successful? I think, almost everyone want to be successful. But in real life, how much people you see to be successful? Definitely very less number, right? Do you know the cause, why rest of the people can’t be successful? You may find so meany reasons. But I’ve found some particular reasons. This causes for lack of some qualities in their characteristics.

Let’s know about 5 characteristics that can change your life and push you on the verge of success.

Honesty: There’s a common proverb that Honesty is the best policy. only honesty can bring a person to the top stair of success. If you make sure your honesty in everywhere you deal with, I swear that none can deface you ever. So honesty is the first priority in your characteristics that you must have to be a successful person.

Hard Work: My second pick is “Hard Work”. If you are a hard working person, be confirmed that your future is bright. How can I say this? Very simple. You are trying hardly for a cause with honesty, even God will not upset you seeing your strong morale.

Self-Control: Controlling yourself in hard time is a must needed attribute of a successful person. If you become frustrated in a little trouble, how can you survive your whole life in lot of problem? Behind every success story there are lot of complications. So, to become successful, you have to control yourself from in from little arguments. You have to focus on your goal, not about what people are thinking and saying behind you. Always remember one thing, they don’t have the ability to take over you that’s why they like to mess with you. Never react on their dispute, you will go a long way.

Self-Respect: As you are a social human being, you must care about your self-respect. Never let any erroneous occurrence to be happened that will affect your personal image. Try to say the word “No” which task is not possible to do. Try to respect on their efficiency. Never think that which thing you can not do that is impossible for all. Always respect others and people will also treat you with full respect.

Ambition: There’s a says that intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. So you must have a strong ambitious mind to become successful. If you don’t know where’s your goal, then how will you move on? It’s totally impossible. Set a goal first and then move upon it with well balance.

These are the 5 characteristics that can really change your life. Hope you’ve got my points. Thank you for reading this article and stay connected with my blog to get such kind of articles regularly.

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Web Development

How to Install WordPress?

Hello Everyone,
Welcome to “How to Install WordPress”. This the 4th episode of my series tutorial “How to Learn Web Development”. From this part I will start the main guideline of developing a website on WordPress. I hope most of you might have been heard about WordPress. Let’s have a short overview about WordPress.

WordPress: WordPress is an opensource Content Management System (CMS) which is mainly used to develop a website. WordPress is the most popular blogging platform and can be used to develop any kind of website like Blog, News-portal, e-Commerce, Classified, Directory, Social Network, Contraction, Event and all other corporate and industrial purposes. WordPress enables web developers to develop a website very quickly and easily. It has a lot of features which will allow you to make any kind of customization on your website without changing any script. So, even a non-programmer can develop a website using WordPress, if he/she learn the uses of WordPress properly.

Now, let’s see how to install WordPress easily within a few minutes.

Installation: Installing WordPress is very easy and time consuming. There are different techniques and methods of installing WordPress. You may follow anyone which seems easy to you. To install WordPress you just need some tools depending on which method you will follow. You may install WordPress on your hosting and also on your local host computer using some local server tools like WAMP, XAMPP etc. In my case, I will show you how to install WordPress using web hosting (cPanel)

Tools: Domain, Hosting, FTP Client (Optional), WordPress Installation File

Process: To learn how to install WordPress on your cPanel, watch this video bellow. in this video I’ve shown the step by step process in very simple and easy method. I hope anyone will be able to understand my presentation. However, if you have any further question, feel free to ask me. I’ll try my level best to answer your question. If you find this video helpful, don’t forget to like and share. If you want to get all my tutorials video updates regularly, don’t forget to subscribe my channel. So, let’s watch how to install WordPress on your hosting cPanel.

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Web Development

How to Buy Domain and Hosting?

Post author By Abul Khayer
Post date March 28, 2016
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Hello Everyone,
Welcome to my third part of the series tutorial of “How to learn Web Development”. Reading the article topic and title you might have already been understood that in this part I’m going to show and discuss about how to buy domain and hosting before developing a website.

First of all let me clear to all of you that domain and hosting is the core and inseparable part of a website. So before learning web development, you must learn about domain and hosting and how to buy domain and hosting. Let’s take a look what is a domain and hosting.

Domain: A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). Any name registered in the DNS is a domain name. Domain names can also be thought of as a location where certain information or activities can be found.

Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. In general, a domain name represents an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, a server computer hosting a web site, or the web site itself or any other service communicated via the Internet. In 2014, the number of active domains reached 271 million. (Source: Wikipedia)

Hosting: A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server owned or leased for use by clients, as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for other servers located in their data center, called colocation, also known as Housing in Latin America or France. (Source: Wikipedia)

So, these are a short definition about domain and hosting and I hope you’ve understood that it’s not possible to run a website or a program on the internet or intranet without domain and hosting. And it’s a point to be noted that you can not purchase a domain and hosting service forever. You are only allowed to get domain and hosting, specially the domain for a lease. But you can buy the copyright of a domain name as long as you want. Now let’s see how to buy domain and hosting instantly.

Different people has different opinion about buying domain and hosting. Someone suggests some over rated and popular domain and hosting service provider company like Godaddy, Hostgator, bluehost and somany others. I also prefer such kind of prominent company to buy domain and hosting. But for some support and service reason sometime I suggest others to buy domain and hosting from a well known and trusted local company who are providing their level support to the customers. In my case, I always suggest NR Hosting to buy domain and hosting because of their great customer support and boundless services. Let’s see how to buy domain and hosting from NR Hosting in five minutes.

Step-1: First type www.nrhosting.com on the address bar of your web browser to visit the official website of NR Hosting. And take a quick look over all the package and plan of their services and decide which package is suitable and reasonable for you. One thing I’ve forget to mention that NR Hosting provides Cloud Hosting Services which is very rare. You may have a question that what is the benefit of Cloud Hosting? Well, it’s more flexible and secured than normal shared hosting. I will describe more about the comparison between normal hosting and Cloud Hosting later, if I get enough chance.

Step-2: From the main navigation menu of the website click on the “Domain” page as like the image bellow. Then it will redirect you to the domain checker page.

Step-3: You will find a search box on just center area of the domain page. In this search box, simply type the domain name you are looking for. Then click on the search button.

If your domain is available for registration a congratulations message will be shown up in green color. There will be also pop-up some new options bellow the search box. Click on the “Add to Cart” button from the right corner of the new appeared options list.

If you want to buy hosting or any other services as well, just click on the “View Cart” options from the top header menu. Or if you want to buy just a domain, click on the “Go to checkout” button from the appeared option list bellow the domain search bar. In my case I’m going View Cart page to continue my shopping.

Step-4: On the cart page, you will see your order summary and find a options called “Continue Shopping”. Click on this option and it will redirect you to the product selection page.

From the product selection page select your preferred hosting package and plan by clicking on the “Cloud Hosting” option.

Step-5: Now select your package and click on the “Order Now” button from the bottom of package description.

Step-6: Then it will redirect you a specified product selection page that you have already selected.

Now select the product again one by one and click on the “Go to checkout” option to complete your shopping.

Select some free maintenance and management services from the service provider if you want.

Step-7: You will need to full fill some required field with all your personal information and login id password. if you are not registered member of the service provider website.

Just simply enter your information and select the payment method to confirm your order.

Once every step done completely you will receive a confirmation email from the service provider with your account login information. Congratulations you have successfully purchased your new domain and hosting.

Note that you will get a domain verification link to verify that you are the real owner of this domain within next few minutes. You must have to verify your ownership of the domain by visiting to the verification link. If you miss it, you can not be able to use your domain or the domain will not be active at all.

So, these are the easy steps to buy domain and hosting from anywhere anytime. I hope now you don’t have any question about how to buy domain and hosting. Follow my all tutorials to know more about web development and many other technical topics. Thank you for reading this article. Goodbye.

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