April 24, 2010 — John Hawkins teaches the basics of developing a custom plugin for WordPress to move your custom code out of your themes and into plugins.

April 24, 2010 — Most WordPress Plugins are little more than small utilities but there are a growing number of them that can dramatically augment the way WordPress behaves or give WordPress advanced new features.

Blair Williams demonstrates an effective way to develop your own platform-modifying plugin (PMP) using a Model View Controller (MVC) approach with some additional tips and tricks learned from coding and supporting two different PMPs.

April 24, 2010 — Jonathan Dingman demonstrates his choices for WordPress plugins that should be standard issue for new installs and methods for squeezing the best performance out of your new WordPress blog.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

April 24, 2010 — Scott Elkin discusses the basics of integrating WordPress installations with forum software packages, specifically bbPress, phpBB, and VBulletin.

Presenter’s notes on this talk are available here.

April 24, 2010 — Jane Wells from Automattic provides the keynote address at WordCamp Orange County 2010, covering the updates coming in WordPress 3.0, how you can get involved with WordPress development, and the mission of the WordPress Foundation.

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.

April 16, 2010 — Brendan Sera-Shriar talks WordPress as a CMS, the power of jQuery, and more in this interview from the ConFoo Report by Christian Aubry.

April 14, 2010 — Jesse P. Luna demonstrates how to add a slideshow to a post on WordPress.com in this quick and easy tutorial.

April 2, 2010 — Matt Mullenweg of Automattic talks about WordPress 3.0, the future of WordPress, and the many uses of WordPress in this interview with the hosts of WPGirls.

March 15, 2010 — Take a look behind the curtain of WordPress and its theme engine, and get a step-by-step road map of how to use Expression Web 3 with WordPress to take a boring standard blog theme and make into a functional CMS site design in this talk by Morten Rand-Hendriksen.

Video courtesy Microsoft and MIX10.

March 9, 2010 — Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, founding developers of WordPress, discuss the history of WordPress, the open source philosophy behind it, and their backgrounds in this interview recorded at WordCamp UK 2009 by Gurbir Singh.