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January 23, 2010 — A beginner’s guide on how to edit/manipulate WordPress (themes, plugins, etc) files to accomplish what you want without having to hire a developer from Shayne Sanderson.

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

November 15, 2009 — Daisy Olsen demonstrates how to edit a single file to create a child theme for an existing theme, requiring no alterations to the original theme itself.

Video courtesy ISOC-NY.

November 14, 2009 — For front-end and user experience designers, tweaking WordPress themes to your liking has always been a cinch. But what happens when it’s time to upgrade your theme to include features in a new version of WP? Allan Cole introduces us to Child Themes which will allow you to speed up your development time and make future-proof theme edits, while also leaving the inefficient processes of trial & error behind.

September 26, 2009 — Eric Amundson teaches quick, free, and effective ways to make WordPress installations more usable, accessible, secure, and satisfying—all in one five minute session.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

March 6, 2009 — If you have multiple levels of categories in your blog and wish to have them styled differently, Tom Johnson of I’d Rather Be Writing walks you through the process in this CSS-based tutorial.

January 23, 2009 — In this final part of his three part series on designing for WordPress, Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks.com walks you through putting the finishing touches to your WordPress theme, including adding dynamic social media content, such as Twitter updates, to your theme. You can find additional content links and downloadable video at the original CSS-Tricks post