July 17, 2010 — Over the past 3 years the WordPress theme landscape has changed dramatically. What started as a few key community members pumping out cool and interesting theme designs has turned into big business with huge turnovers and a truly worldwide scope.

This is a history lesson showing how the theme market has grown and how elements such as free themes, theme clubs, GPL and theme frameworks steered its evolution. There’s also a look at the future of the theme market and WordPress theme technology.

July 17, 2010 — David Coveney presents at WordCamp UK, Manchester 2010, discussing the impact of WordPress on big media

July 15, 2010 — Andrew Warner of Mixergy conducts an interview with Matt Mullenweg of Automattic and Chris Pearson of DIYThemes regarding the Thesis theme and the GNU Public License.

Special thanks to Mixergy for sharing this video with WordPress.tv.

July 10, 2010 — Jane Wells from Automattic gives the news on what’s coming next for WordPress. WordPress 3.0 has brought many new features to WordPress including menus, multiple site support, custom post-types and much more. Hear directly from Jane on the latest and get a sneak peak at what’s coming to the WordPress project, how you can get involved, and more.

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.

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?

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.

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.

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.

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.