January 23, 2010 — You’ve heard the rumors- MU is coming to WordPress Core in 3.0. Learn what this merge means to you and what it means for Automattic. Hear from Jane Wells about what UI changes are expected and what prompted the change from WordPress.

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

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.

January 23, 2010 — Creative yet inexpensive Internet marketing techniques such as blogging can build a company’s online presence, spawn brand loyalty, and generate leads/results. Because a corporate blog is a place for customers, prospects and like-minded individuals to share ideas, it reinforces a company’s image and brand as a thought-leader. Karen Rubin discusses what kind of content you can create to attract your customers, how to bring people to your blog and how to keep the momentum going.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

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

January 23, 2010 — Boone Gorges talks about the structure of BuddyPress and how the parts work together. He demonstrates a few examples of how you can use plugins, config files, and child themes to make BuddyPress work for your unique and freakish purposes.

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

January 23, 2010 — The Parent/Child theme structure allows website owners, designers, and developers the ability to create custom theme designs quickly. Daisy Olsen discusses various aspects of this useful theme creation technique.

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

January 23, 2010 — Rob Larsen shows you how to create cross-browser, HTML5 enhanced WordPress themes using nothing more than a little extra JavaScript, basic WordPress knowledge and some knowledge of the new elements.

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

January 23, 2010 — Is your WordPress or WPMU install beginning to feel a bit lethargic? In this session Daniel Collis-Puro shares real, honest-to-goodness, rubber-hits-the-road tips on performance optimization, nginx front-end proxy caching, and optimizing the LAMP stack. Feed your need for speed and your love of WP at the same time, and leave other WP admins in the dust.

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

January 23, 2010 — jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript framework that’s extremely popular with Web designers and developers. Jim Doran presents an overview of jQuery and how to start using it, including a case study that uses jQuery with a new, homemade WP theme and layout techniques, animation effects, DOM manipulation and AJAX/JSON.

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

January 23, 2010 — Daniel Jalkut presents a high-level overview of the two major APIs that WordPress supports for remote integration: XML-RPC and AtomPub. He discusses a variety uses for these APIs ranging from desktop apps to cross-site integration to specialized iPhone clients. This talk is aimed at designers and plugin developers who might get use out of the API, or whose knowledge of it might help them make better implementation choices.

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

January 23, 2010 — The magic behind WordPress is how it processes queries and gives you the results via “The Loop.” The Loop can be hijacked for a variety of custom uses and these techniques can quickly expand the capacity of WordPress to present information in different ways. Mitcho covers The Loop, as well as PHP tips which help introspect WordPress during lower-level development.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

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