July 17, 2009 — The recent addition of the PollDaddy Ratings widget to WordPress.com blogs allows you to add star and thumbs-up, thumbs-down ratings to your blog posts, pages and comments. This video walks you through the basics. For more information check out this support page. A WordPress.org plugin version is in the works.

July 15, 2009 — Chris Pirillo’s presentation on web communities, recorded at WordCamp San Francisco 2009.

Video by Dave Curlee and John P. Post production by Dave Curlee.

July 12, 2009 — Jeremy Clarke talks to users at WordCamp Montreal who know how to blog but have not yet figured out how to control the way their blog works at the theme level. He explains how the files in your theme folder work to define different kinds of content and how to identify WordPress “template tags” and move them around in your theme.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

July 12, 2009 — Brendan Sera-Shriar explains FlashPress to WordCamp Montreal. FlashPress is an extension to WordPress. The FlashPress project aims to develop a new WordPress bundle that will allow anybody to be up and running with a fully CMS backed Flash site or blog in minutes.

Slides from this presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

July 12, 2009 — Jane Wells of Automattic discusses the future of WordPress. Surprise: it’s not all about features.

Slides from the presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

July 11, 2009 — Jeremy Clarke presents on why your site might be going slow and show you how to squeeze more out of your cheap hosting (and avoid upgrading to expensive dedicated servers!), including a look at caching plugins to help you in case of a traffic spike and tuning plugins to help you identify expensive features that need work.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

July 11, 2009 — Andy Peatling of Automattic talks about the WP social networking system BuddyPress at WordCamp Montreal and gives practical advice for people considering it as a platform.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

July 11, 2009 — Jérôme Paradis and Kim Vallée address the how, the why and the benefits of carrying out a large-scale migration, including why you would move to Wordpress, demystifying the good and the bad of changing all our URLs, migration tools and techniques and a migration checklist. From WordCamp Montreal.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

July 11, 2009 — A question and answer session from WordCamp Montreal with Matt Mullenweg. Questions were submitted by WordCamp attendees and also asked during the session, and cover such topics as tags on WordPress.com, the WordPress upgrade system, multilingual support in WordPress, and more.

July 11, 2009 — Brad Williams talks about how to keep your WordPress-powered website secure from hackers and exploits.

Slides from the presentation are available here.

Video Production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.