December 3, 2010

October 30, 2010

January 23, 2010 — You’ve heard the rumors- MU is coming to WordPress Core in 3.0. Learn what this merge means to you and what it means for Automattic. Hear from Jane Wells about what UI changes are expected and what prompted the change from WordPress.

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

January 23, 2010 — Is your WordPress or WPMU install beginning to feel a bit lethargic? In this session Daniel Collis-Puro shares real, honest-to-goodness, rubber-hits-the-road tips on performance optimization, nginx front-end proxy caching, and optimizing the LAMP stack. Feed your need for speed and your love of WP at the same time, and leave other WP admins in the dust.

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

November 15, 2009 — Andrea Rennick gives a brief 5-minute overview of the capabilities and extensibility of WordPress MU.

Video courtesy ISOC-NY.

November 14, 2009 — Using WordPress MU, WNET partnered with Tierra to launch 50+ non-blog sites supporting WNET television programming, reducing costs, improving traffic and streamlining their production across multiple Thirteen and PBS teams. This session covers the business objectives for the project, why WNET selected WP, technical challenges in re-launching dozens of sites using one common platform, custom plugins and templates, and other issues.

Slides from this presentation are available here.

Video courtesy ISOC-NY.

September 19, 2009 — Shayne Sanderson of S-Tastic Designs talks about integrating WordPress MU and the WP E-Commerce plugin from Instinct Entertainment. He covers the features and benefits of using WP E-Commerce with WPMU, gives a demo and overview of the process, and takes questions from the audience.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 12, 2009 — Shayne Sanderson of S-Tastic Designs talks about integrating WordPress MU and the WP E-Commerce plugin from Instinct Entertainment. He covers the features and benefits of using WP E-Commerce with WPMU, gives a demo and overview of the process, and takes questions from the audience.

September 12, 2009 — Beau Lebens talks to the WordCamp Los Angeles crowd about the extended family of products built from WordPress: WordPress MU, bbPress, BuddyPress, and BackPress.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

February 6, 2009 — BuddyPress is a suite of 8 plugins, currently in beta, that will transform any installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform. In this <4 minute intro we take a look at the key components.