July 10, 2010 — You want your WordPress site to be fast, use less server resources, and be able to handle increases in traffic. WordPress’ output and object caching are there to help everyone realize these goals. This talk from Chris Scott and Sean O’Shaughnessy cover the differences and interactions between these two types of caching, benchmarks of common caching plugins, and tips for ensuring your themes and plugins are taking advantage of caching.

March 15, 2010 — Take a look behind the curtain of WordPress and its theme engine, and get a step-by-step road map of how to use Expression Web 3 with WordPress to take a boring standard blog theme and make into a functional CMS site design in this talk by Morten Rand-Hendriksen.

Video courtesy Microsoft and MIX10.

September 26, 2009 — Eric Amundson teaches quick, free, and effective ways to make WordPress installations more usable, accessible, secure, and satisfying—all in one five minute session.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

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.

July 11, 2009 — Jeremy Clarke presents on why your site might be going slow and show you how to squeeze more out of your cheap hosting (and avoid upgrading to expensive dedicated servers!), including a look at caching plugins to help you in case of a traffic spike and tuning plugins to help you identify expensive features that need work.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.