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 13, 2009 — Brent Spore of WHATABLOGGER teaches design fundamentals that can help you learn how to design effective WordPress sites.

November 13, 2009 — John Hawkins teaches the WordCamp Phoenix audience the basics of building a plugin in this short presentation.

November 12, 2009 — Tom Johnson gives a brief introduction to and instructions for getting started with WampServer for Windows to run WordPress on your own computer. Running WordPress locally allows you to test setups, themes, plugins, and more without the need of an Internet connection or trouble of setting up a dedicated test installation.

September 26, 2009 — Learn what BuddyPress is, what it can do, how to set it up, integrate it, and extend it. Get a preview of some of the features coming in BuddyPress 1.1, and learn why it is to your advantage as a WordPress developer to incorporate BuddyPress consulting into the services you offer in this session from Mark Jaquith. Also covered: why BuddyPress is a good model for the future of the WordPress plugin landscape.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 20, 2009 — Scott Porad from The Cheezburger Network talks about the design and business philosophy behind the Cheezburger network of sites and how those sites use WordPress to accomplish those things.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

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 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 — 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.