July 17, 2010 — Over the past 3 years the WordPress theme landscape has changed dramatically. What started as a few key community members pumping out cool and interesting theme designs has turned into big business with huge turnovers and a truly worldwide scope.

This is a history lesson showing how the theme market has grown and how elements such as free themes, theme clubs, GPL and theme frameworks steered its evolution. There’s also a look at the future of the theme market and WordPress theme technology.

July 15, 2010 — Andrew Warner of Mixergy conducts an interview with Matt Mullenweg of Automattic and Chris Pearson of DIYThemes regarding the Thesis theme and the GNU Public License.

Special thanks to Mixergy for sharing this video with WordPress.tv.

July 10, 2010 — Josh Byers, Kevin Conboy, and Kevin Menzie discuss the challenges and peculiarities of designing specifically for WordPress, including thoughts on full-stack development, methods and techniques for getting started and staying on-target, and how to design for clients’ needs.

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July 10, 2010 — You want your WordPress site to be fast, use less server resources, and be able to handle increases in traffic. WordPress’ output and object caching are there to help everyone realize these goals. This talk from Chris Scott and Sean O’Shaughnessy cover the differences and interactions between these two types of caching, benchmarks of common caching plugins, and tips for ensuring your themes and plugins are taking advantage of caching.

May 1, 2010 — Stephan Spencer shows techniques and pointers for optimizing WordPress for search engines in this lightning session.

May 1, 2010 — Are you developing a WordPress theme? Yoav Farhi from Automattic teaches you the basics of right-to-left language support in seven minutes in this lightning session.

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May 1, 2010 — Allan Cole gives a brief introduction to child themes and explains their benefits and advantages in this lightning session.

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May 1, 2010 — Jane Wells uses real examples to demonstrate how to best design your WordPress user experiences to mesh with those of the core software and fulfill the expectations of your users.

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April 24, 2010 — Colin Loretz discusses specific methods for using WordPress as a content management system, including when WordPress is best for your site and how you can optimize your WordPress use for a complete site.

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April 24, 2010 — Drew Strojny from The Theme Foundry leads a workshop-style session on customizing WordPress themes, from basic best practices to the beginnings of more advanced customizations.

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