April 24, 2010 — Drew Strojny from The Theme Foundry leads a workshop-style session on customizing WordPress themes, from basic best practices to the beginnings of more advanced customizations.

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April 24, 2010 — Pete Mall presents an overview of the new Multisite functionality in WordPress 3.0, including system requirements, differences and how to upgrade from WordPress MU, and how to get started with a Multisite installation.

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April 24, 2010 — Steve Zehngut discusses working with WordPress developers to build successful sites using WordPress as a content management system. Learn “How to Speak Geek” and work with a WordPress developer to complete a successful project in this session.

April 24, 2010 — Austin Passy discusses the advantages and flexibility of using theme frameworks with your WordPress site.

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.

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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.