November 14, 2009 — How using WordPress in university courses sets up a solid base for later creativity in post-graduation life, the possibilities for interaction between academic and non-academic WordPress communities, and the ways in which students at UMW are taking advantage of their university blogging system by re-imagining it in new contexts.

Speakers: Serena Epstein and Shannon Houser.

November 14, 2009 — Library catalogs are big, database-driven websites with lots of metadata but little social interaction. WordPress is an outstanding platform for database-driven websites full of social interaction. Extending WordPress to replace library catalogs is easier than fixing library catalogs to support modern interactions. Scriblio adds faceted searching and browsing as well as structured metadata to make WordPress the most flexible and social platform for presenting any catalog data.

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November 14, 2009 — Using WordPress and free plug-ins, your team or organization can have a full-scale development tool that will increase your team’s efficiency and replace expensive and antiquated corporate intranets. In this session, you’ll learn how to set up WordPress for this purpose, craft strategies and best practices, and have the team collaborating immediately, harnessing its group genius.

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November 14, 2009 — Learn how to write a great WordPress plugin using intermediate plugin development techniques. These techniques include splitting the plugin into separate files, using classes in plugins, localization, WordPress cron, WordPress rewrite, Ajax and more.

November 14, 2009 — José Fontainhas on the global nature of WordPress, benefits of preparing your project to support translation, how to prepare your project, what resources are available, and a short introduction to GlotPress.

November 14, 2009 — In 2005, ComicPress was introduced as a simple theme to publish webcomics. Four years and over 1500 comics later, it has grown into a versatile package with plugins and widgets that give artists even more power to share their comics with the world. Learn about the current state of ComicPress and where it’s headed in the future from John Bintz.

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November 14, 2009 — Using WordPress MU, WNET partnered with Tierra to launch 50+ non-blog sites supporting WNET television programming, reducing costs, improving traffic and streamlining their production across multiple Thirteen and PBS teams. This session covers the business objectives for the project, why WNET selected WP, technical challenges in re-launching dozens of sites using one common platform, custom plugins and templates, and other issues.

Slides from this presentation are available here.

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November 14, 2009 — John Hawkins’ introduction to writing a plugin, with a real-world example showing how to create a plugin with an options page, shortcodes and a dashboard widget.

November 14, 2009 — Jane Wells and Steve Bruner welcome participants to WordCamp New York City 2009.

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November 13, 2009 — Clintus McGintus of I Do It Digital shares his experience in video blogging and marketing, giving tips, tricks, and recommendations for getting your start in using video to enhance your blog.