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 — jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript framework that’s extremely popular with Web designers and developers. Jim Doran presents an overview of jQuery and how to start using it and will show beginners how to start using jQuery and how to begin making WordPress themes.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

November 14, 2009 — Change the way you look at WordPress themes. Daryl Koopersmith talks about Elastic and the concepts behind today’s WordPress themes. Elastic is a plugin and theme framework that began development during GSoC 2009. Elastic isn’t just a parent theme; it represents a fundamental change to how WordPress themes work.

November 14, 2009 — Justin Shreve presents his Google Summer of Code 2009 project creating a WordPress search API. The rationale behind the project, the lack of power and flexibility in the existing WordPress search engine, and aspects of the development process are discussed. The presentation concludes with an overview of the enhancements made with this project and some Q&A.

November 14, 2009 — For front-end and user experience designers, tweaking WordPress themes to your liking has always been a cinch. But what happens when it’s time to upgrade your theme to include features in a new version of WP? Allan Cole introduces us to Child Themes which will allow you to speed up your development time and make future-proof theme edits, while also leaving the inefficient processes of trial & error behind.

November 14, 2009 — Library catalogs are big, database-driven websites with lots of metadata but little social interaction. WordPress is an outstanding platform for database-driven websites full of social interaction. Extending WordPress to replace library catalogs is easier than fixing library catalogs to support modern interactions. Scriblio adds faceted searching and browsing as well as structured metadata to make WordPress the most flexible and social platform for presenting any catalog data.

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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.

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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.