WordCamp Asia 2026 is in Mumbai this week, at the Jio World Convention Centre (JWCC), and the WooCommerce team is going. Whether you run stores at scale or you are still on your first plugin, a few days in the same building as the people who write the code beats a month of forum threads.
A developer’s plan for WordCamp Asia 2026
I have been to enough WordCamps to know the sessions are rarely the best part. The hallway track and the sponsor hall are, and this year WooCommerce is running a community meetup on top of that. It is a low-key setting where you can talk to the engineers and product managers who work on the codebase.
I covered the wider event in an earlier post on why you need to be in Mumbai. If you cannot travel, the official live stream links will carry the Core announcements.
The Woo community meetup
The meetup runs during the event and it is open to anyone, agency developer or solo freelancer. Drinks and snacks are provided. Space is limited, so RSVP rather than turning up on the night.
The booth in the sponsor hall
The Woo booth sits with the rest of Automattic, next to WordPress.com and Jetpack, and that is where the Happiness Engineers and product managers will be. One thing to know before you plan your questions: the Developer Advocates are not on the ground this time.
So if your question needs a Dev Advocate, email developer-advocacy@woocommerce.com or DM @DevelopWoo on X instead. The people at the booth can still pass an introduction along, so feedback about hooks, filters or a REST API bottleneck reaches the right desk.
If your WordPress work is eating hours you would rather spend at the conference, I can take some of it on. I have been working with WordPress since the 4.x days.
What to actually do there
Skip the swag table and spend the time on people instead. Ask the product team what is really on the roadmap, and ask how the new database schemas hold up under load. With the Dev Advocates away this year, the booth is your route to them, so use it.
