September 20, 2009 — John Hawkins demonstrates the basics of constructing a plugin, designing it to make the changes you want, and then using that plugin to alter your WordPress site in a persistent way. Includes some basic discussion on hooks and functions, as well as some sample code.

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 — 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.

September 18, 2009 — Amit Agarwal gives a quick tutorial on how to move a blog from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress while minimizing damage to search rankings or results.

For more information on this process and the source for the file mentioned in the video tutorial, please visit Amit’s site at labnol.org.

September 13, 2009 — HookPress allows you to set up webhooks so that a specified URL (a public service or something you set up) is requested when certain WordPress actions occur. Possible uses include generating push notifications or using non-PHP web technology to extend WordPress. This introduction by the plugin author, mitcho, gives you a brief overview of HookPress and a couple of examples for getting started.

September 12, 2009 — John Hawkins runs through the basics of creating a WordPress plugin, with code examples and an explanation of the basic principles behind plugin creation and interactions.

September 12, 2009 — Ben Huh discusses the beginnings of the Cheezburger Network, the principles and ideas behind the network, some lessons learned, and how those things can inform you when planning a business venture.

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.

September 11, 2009 — Screencast décrivant la procédure d’installation d’un nouveau thème / design pour votre blog. Aucune intervention via un client FPT n’est requise, l’opération s’effectuant directement via l’administration de WordPress.

Video courtesy WPChannel.com.

September 11, 2009 — Screencast décrivant la procédure d’installation automatisé d’un plugin WordPress à l’aide de l’interface d’administration. Aucune intervention via un client FTP n’est requise dans ce cas de figure. Pour gagner du temps, gardez à portée de clic vos identifiants de connexion au serveur FTP.

Video courtesy WPChannel.com.