May 25, 2013 — Slow websites are bad and as websites grow in traffic, slow websites get slower. It’s often a wise move to invest a small amount of time in the early stages of a site’s life to think about performance and scaling. How you can work with larger sites when it comes to caching, file management (version control), SQL performance and front-end optimisation.

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January 23, 2010 — Is your WordPress or WPMU install beginning to feel a bit lethargic? In this session Daniel Collis-Puro shares real, honest-to-goodness, rubber-hits-the-road tips on performance optimization, nginx front-end proxy caching, and optimizing the LAMP stack. Feed your need for speed and your love of WP at the same time, and leave other WP admins in the dust.

Special thanks to the Microsoft NERD Center for hosting WordCamp Boston.

September 26, 2009 — Josh Harrison gives a lightning five-minute presenation on wp-config. What is it? How does it work? What changes can you make and how will they affect your install? This video presents some simple tips and tricks.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Learn what BuddyPress is, what it can do, how to set it up, integrate it, and extend it. Get a preview of some of the features coming in BuddyPress 1.1, and learn why it is to your advantage as a WordPress developer to incorporate BuddyPress consulting into the services you offer in this session from Mark Jaquith. Also covered: why BuddyPress is a good model for the future of the WordPress plugin landscape.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 24, 2009 — Screencast décrivant la procédure de mise en oeuvre du plugin d’anti-spam de WordPress.

Vidéo proposée par: WordPress Channel.

September 11, 2009 — Screencast décrivant la procédure d’installation d’un nouveau thème / design pour votre blog. Aucune intervention via un client FPT n’est requise, l’opération s’effectuant directement via l’administration de WordPress.

Video courtesy WPChannel.com.

September 11, 2009 — Screencast décrivant la procédure d’installation automatisé d’un plugin WordPress à l’aide de l’interface d’administration. Aucune intervention via un client FTP n’est requise dans ce cas de figure. Pour gagner du temps, gardez à portée de clic vos identifiants de connexion au serveur FTP.

Video courtesy WPChannel.com.

July 12, 2009 — Brendan Sera-Shriar explains FlashPress to WordCamp Montreal. FlashPress is an extension to WordPress. The FlashPress project aims to develop a new WordPress bundle that will allow anybody to be up and running with a fully CMS backed Flash site or blog in minutes.

Slides from this presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.