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July 17, 2010 — Are you interested in WordPress template design? Find out how to create your own unique, flexible design to set your site apart from the crowd! This is an introduction to theme file structure and logic, followed by a look at a theme frameworks and how to modify them. It includes a heavy focus on child theming and framework design.

July 17, 2010 — Over the past 3 years the WordPress theme landscape has changed dramatically. What started as a few key community members pumping out cool and interesting theme designs has turned into big business with huge turnovers and a truly worldwide scope.

This is a history lesson showing how the theme market has grown and how elements such as free themes, theme clubs, GPL and theme frameworks steered its evolution. There’s also a look at the future of the theme market and WordPress theme technology.

July 15, 2010 — Andrew Warner of Mixergy conducts an interview with Matt Mullenweg of Automattic and Chris Pearson of DIYThemes regarding the Thesis theme and the GNU Public License.

Special thanks to Mixergy for sharing this video with WordPress.tv.

July 10, 2010 — Josh Byers, Kevin Conboy, and Kevin Menzie discuss the challenges and peculiarities of designing specifically for WordPress, including thoughts on full-stack development, methods and techniques for getting started and staying on-target, and how to design for clients’ needs.

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.

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.

May 1, 2010 — Stephan Spencer shows techniques and pointers for optimizing WordPress for search engines in this lightning session.

May 1, 2010 — Are you developing a WordPress theme? Yoav Farhi from Automattic teaches you the basics of right-to-left language support in seven minutes in this lightning session.

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.