September 19, 2009 — Tyler Sticka talks about creating and maintaining a WordPress site to serve as a portfolio to both show and describe your work, including plugin and theme ideas to get you started easily. The talk also includes code snippets and suggestions for optimizing your theme for serving a portfolio.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 19, 2009 — Duane Storey of BraveNewCode talks to WordCamp Portland about opportunities for WordPress and mobile devices, including the history of the mobile internet, the opportunities presented by mobile web users, plugins and themes available to facilitate mobile use of WordPress, how to test your site for mobile use, and more.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 19, 2009 — Shayne Sanderson of S-Tastic Designs talks about integrating WordPress MU and the WP E-Commerce plugin from Instinct Entertainment. He covers the features and benefits of using WP E-Commerce with WPMU, gives a demo and overview of the process, and takes questions from the audience.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 19, 2009 — Matt Mullenweg of Automattic answers questions from the WordPress community, including making money from open source products, migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, the history of WordPress, the roles system in WordPress, core vs. plugins, blog comments, WordPress security, and more.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 19, 2009 — Cami Kaos and Dr. Normal from Strange Love Live talk about podcasting content, how difficult it can be to keep podcasts going, where to find content and how to interact with a greater community, and how to be entertaining.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 19, 2009 — Jason Grigsby of Cloud Four discusses the bloat that’s crept into web site design processes and how to combat it to keep your WordPress installation lean and optimized. He shares tips and tricks for caching, choosing the right resources for your blog, compression, and other optimization strategies for your WordPress-powered site.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 18, 2009 — Amit Agarwal gives a quick tutorial on how to move a blog from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress while minimizing damage to search rankings or results.

For more information on this process and the source for the file mentioned in the video tutorial, please visit Amit’s site at labnol.org.

September 13, 2009 — HookPress allows you to set up webhooks so that a specified URL (a public service or something you set up) is requested when certain WordPress actions occur. Possible uses include generating push notifications or using non-PHP web technology to extend WordPress. This introduction by the plugin author, mitcho, gives you a brief overview of HookPress and a couple of examples for getting started.

September 12, 2009 — John Hawkins runs through the basics of creating a WordPress plugin, with code examples and an explanation of the basic principles behind plugin creation and interactions.

September 12, 2009 — Andrew Warner discusses how easy and inexpensive it is to create video that can be added to a blog, including ideas for hardware, suggestions and demonstrations of software packages for managing video, and basic techniques for video-making.