January 23, 2010 — The magic behind WordPress is how it processes queries and gives you the results via “The Loop.” The Loop can be hijacked for a variety of custom uses and these techniques can quickly expand the capacity of WordPress to present information in different ways. Mitcho covers The Loop, as well as PHP tips which help introspect WordPress during lower-level development.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

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

December 21, 2009 — A new global “Trash” feature, built-in image editing, better plugin updating and compatibility checking, and easier embed support make up the latest release of WordPress.org, revealed for you in this introduction.

November 15, 2009 — Beau Lebens of Automattic explains and demonstrates the IntenseDebate commenting system in five minutes.

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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 — Scott Kingsley Clark delivers a brief overview of the Pods CMS Framework in this quick six-minute presentation.

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November 15, 2009 — John Hawkins introduces the concept of canonical plugins in this just-more-than-two-minute talk from WordCamp NYC.

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November 14, 2009 — Using WordPress and free plug-ins, your team or organization can have a full-scale development tool that will increase your team’s efficiency and replace expensive and antiquated corporate intranets. In this session, you’ll learn how to set up WordPress for this purpose, craft strategies and best practices, and have the team collaborating immediately, harnessing its group genius.

Video courtesy ISOC-NY.

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 — In 2005, ComicPress was introduced as a simple theme to publish webcomics. Four years and over 1500 comics later, it has grown into a versatile package with plugins and widgets that give artists even more power to share their comics with the world. Learn about the current state of ComicPress and where it’s headed in the future from John Bintz.

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