November 15, 2009 — Daisy Olsen demonstrates how to edit a single file to create a child theme for an existing theme, requiring no alterations to the original theme itself.

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November 15, 2009 — Ted Mann from Gannett talks about using WordPress for “hyperlocal” journalism using injersey.com as an example.

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November 15, 2009 — In five minutes, Jim Doran talks about the power and versatility of jQuery and why you should be using it in your projects.

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November 15, 2009 — Daryl Koopersmith introduces a new way of creating WordPress themes with the Elastic editor, and creates a basic theme—all in five minutes.

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November 15, 2009 — Jeremy Clarke gives an overview of choosing a good IDE for development of PHP applications in this five-minute talk.

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November 14, 2009 — jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript framework that’s extremely popular with Web designers and developers. Jim Doran presents an overview of jQuery and how to start using it and will show beginners how to start using jQuery and how to begin making WordPress themes.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

November 14, 2009 — For front-end and user experience designers, tweaking WordPress themes to your liking has always been a cinch. But what happens when it’s time to upgrade your theme to include features in a new version of WP? Allan Cole introduces us to Child Themes which will allow you to speed up your development time and make future-proof theme edits, while also leaving the inefficient processes of trial & error behind.

November 14, 2009 — Learn how to write a great WordPress plugin using intermediate plugin development techniques. These techniques include splitting the plugin into separate files, using classes in plugins, localization, WordPress cron, WordPress rewrite, Ajax and more.

November 14, 2009 — José Fontainhas on the global nature of WordPress, benefits of preparing your project to support translation, how to prepare your project, what resources are available, and a short introduction to GlotPress.

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.