May 1, 2010 — Niall Kennedy kicks off the developer track of WordCamp San Francisco 2010 and gives an overview of how using and developing plugins can extend and enhance your WordPress-based site.

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April 24, 2010 — Steve Zehngut moves beyond the basics of plugin creation and demonstrates more advanced plugin development by creating a new media management plugin for WordPress live in this presentation.

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April 24, 2010 — Blair Williams shares his experiences with developing and publishing premium WordPress plugins, including how to distribute them, strategies for charging and how to charge for them, and how to market your plugin to reach new users.

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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.

February 23, 2010 — If you’re a freelancer, a web design agency or simply a WordPress consultant, Technical Support for WordPress is a way to provide quality support to your clients. After setting up a WordPress powered website for your client, install the Technical Support plugin, which will enhance your client’s Dashboard with a new widget for submitting support tickets directly to your e-mail. Konstantin Kovshenin leads you through a demo of this plugin, available in the Plugin Directory here.

January 23, 2010 — Learn how to keep your WordPress-powered website secure from hackers and exploits. Brad Williams from WebDevStudios.com shows examples of hacked sites, shares tips and plugins for keeping WordPress secure, and talks about his experiences with WordPress and security.

Special thanks to the Microsoft NERD Center for hosting WordCamp Boston.

January 23, 2010 — A beginner’s guide on how to edit/manipulate WordPress (themes, plugins, etc) files to accomplish what you want without having to hire a developer from Shayne Sanderson.

Special thanks to the Microsoft NERD Center for hosting WordCamp Boston.