October 17, 2009 — Hiromichi Koga’s presentation “Megumi GPL / Commercial Theme” at WordCamp Kyoto 2009 in Japan.
「め組テーマ (GPLとcommercialテーマ)」 小賀浩通氏講演 ワードキャンプ京都2009 (日本語音声)
Video by Hiro Shinohara & Ian Cheung (Messaliberty).
October 17, 2009 — Ode’s presentation “Thematic: A WordPress Theme Framework” at WordCamp Kyoto 2009 in Japan.
「Thematic: A WordPress Theme Framework のススメ」おで氏講演 ワードキャンプ京都2009 (日本語音声)
Video by Hiro Shinohara & Ian Cheung (Messaliberty).
October 13, 2009 — Matt Mullenweg gives an overview of the GPL and how it benefits WordPress, why WordPress is licensed under the GPL, how the GPL fosters innovation, affects themes and plugins, and creates value.
The directory of premium theme authors who support the GPL as mentioned in the interview is located here.
September 26, 2009 — Donald DeSantis teaches starting with a bare-bones WordPress theme and building it into something more in this five minute presentation.
The demo site from the presentation is available here.
Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.
September 26, 2009 — Chris Molitor gives a five-minute rundown on how to start finding a theme that’s right for your WordPress site.
Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.
September 26, 2009 — Aaron Hockley talks about the numerous steps used during the recent launch of SocialPhotoTalk.com, including planning and site setup, theme and plugin configuration, launch steps, and basic publicity.
Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.
September 19, 2009 — Tyler Sticka talks about creating and maintaining a WordPress site to serve as a portfolio to both show and describe your work, including plugin and theme ideas to get you started easily. The talk also includes code snippets and suggestions for optimizing your theme for serving a portfolio.
Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.
September 19, 2009 — Duane Storey of BraveNewCode talks to WordCamp Portland about opportunities for WordPress and mobile devices, including the history of the mobile internet, the opportunities presented by mobile web users, plugins and themes available to facilitate mobile use of WordPress, how to test your site for mobile use, and more.
Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.
July 12, 2009 — Jeremy Clarke talks to users at WordCamp Montreal who know how to blog but have not yet figured out how to control the way their blog works at the theme level. He explains how the files in your theme folder work to define different kinds of content and how to identify WordPress “template tags” and move them around in your theme.
Slides for this presentation are available here.
Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.
July 11, 2009 — Andy Peatling of Automattic talks about the WP social networking system BuddyPress at WordCamp Montreal and gives practical advice for people considering it as a platform.
Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.