July 24, 2009 — In this short video for self-hosted WordPress blogs, we walk you through the process of adding Twitter updates to the sidebar of your widget-enabled theme, using the Wickett Twitter plugin

July 22, 2009 — This video walks you through a quick way to add your latest Twitter tweets to the sidebar of your blog, via the built in Twitter Widget. For self-hosted blogs, check out this video

July 22, 2009 — If you’d like to bring the content of your WordPress blog into your Facebook notes stream, this quick tutorial will show you how.

July 17, 2009 — The recent addition of the PollDaddy Ratings widget to WordPress.com blogs allows you to add star and thumbs-up, thumbs-down ratings to your blog posts, pages and comments. This video walks you through the basics. For more information check out this support page. A WordPress.org plugin version is in the works.

July 15, 2009 — Chris Pirillo’s presentation on web communities, recorded at WordCamp San Francisco 2009.

Video by Dave Curlee and John P. Post production by Dave Curlee.

July 12, 2009 — Jeremy Clarke talks to users at WordCamp Montreal who know how to blog but have not yet figured out how to control the way their blog works at the theme level. He explains how the files in your theme folder work to define different kinds of content and how to identify WordPress “template tags” and move them around in your theme.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

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.

July 12, 2009 — Jane Wells of Automattic discusses the future of WordPress. Surprise: it’s not all about features.

Slides from the presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

July 11, 2009 — Jeremy Clarke presents on why your site might be going slow and show you how to squeeze more out of your cheap hosting (and avoid upgrading to expensive dedicated servers!), including a look at caching plugins to help you in case of a traffic spike and tuning plugins to help you identify expensive features that need work.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

July 11, 2009 — Andy Peatling of Automattic talks about the WP social networking system BuddyPress at WordCamp Montreal and gives practical advice for people considering it as a platform.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.