July 10, 2010 — Usability is vital to website success; if people can’t use it, they won’t. Steve Martin will show you that little usability changes can make a BIG difference and teach you how to run user testing sessions on your own. He’ll also be conducting a usability test live with the audience.

July 10, 2010 — This is an introduction by Lisa Sabin-Wilson into the use of BuddyPress on an existing WordPress-powered web site, including a comprehensive overview of its features, installation, setting up features and extended member profiles, and customizing your theme for BuddyPress by using its inherent Parent/Child theme framework. This session also gives plugin recommendations for BuddyPress and a showcase of existing installations.

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.

July 10, 2010 — This is live WordPress development without a net. Alex King and Shawn Parker from Crowd Favorite take you through the full process of creating a new feature/add-on/customization for WordPress; from concept to architecture to code.

July 10, 2010 — Jim Turner, Beth Hayden, and Bethany Siegler discuss common questions related to business blogging. Is blogging really a necessity for my company? How do I get the most out of blogging? How can WordPress help to market our products or services? How can we make sure it actually reaches our target clients? What should we write about and/or how can we find content to include? What should we not write about or include on a business blog?

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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 — Jeff Finkelstein delves into the fundamentals of how search engines work, what they look for, and what you can do both on your website and external to your site to enhance your search engine optimization efforts. Learn about page rank, keyword density. inbound links, and more.

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.

July 10, 2010 — From writing style to comment moderation strategies, guest blogging to advertising, it’s a lot harder to create a popular blog than to learn about the nuts and bolts of coding, style and SEO. Dave Taylor, Doyle Albee, Aimee Giese, and Holly Hamann share their experience and knowledge to help you in this panel session.

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July 9, 2010 — What does an orange have to do with WordPress? Michael Fields uses the metaphor to explain how taxonomies work in WordPress and what that means for your site.

July 8, 2010 — Jesse Luna gives a quick two-minute overview on how easy it is to embed a presentation into a WordPress.com blog using Slideshare.