This presentation will discuss the benefits of adding a Vanilla Forum to your WordPress site/blog. We will walk through the basics of Vanilla Connect (Single Sign On) in order to manage users across both platforms. We will also demonstrate the ease of theming and integrating Vanilla with WordPress.

WordPress is NOT just a blog anymore!

For the seasoned WordPress developer or anyone coding in PHP, CSS, and jQuery, we will look at how you can take your theme to the next level. I will explain how theme architecture works, how to extend this architecture with custom template files, and how to create custom functions. I will also walk through the some interested CSS frameworks, like 960grid, implementing intermediate to advanced jQuery features, and how to customize the back end. Finally I will briefly discuss how to take your theme mobile using WPTouch and WPMobile.

WordPress to go – Learning how to create simple mobile themes for WordPress using WPTouch and WPMobile.

Looking at how WordPress uses its own brand of PHP for custom plugins, themes, and backend design. I will walk through the basic theme architecture using template tags and understanding how they relate to PHP and how to customize and extend them. I will also show you how you can convert a basic PHP function into a plugin. Finally, I will introduce basic/intermediate customization of the dashboard, how to create custom panels, login screens, etc.

Not just a blog anymore!

Focused on design and development. We’ll cover the essentials of setup and  installation. We’ll learn how to build custom themes using CSS and PHP. We’ll also jump into custom code and template files, best practices for design and management, how to build and install WP and custom plug-ins, and a look at the future of WordPress with WPTouch and WPMobile.

WordCamp Montreal is a small conference about the world’s most popular blogging software WordPress taking place July 11-12 2009 at the SAT. Developers, designers and users will come together for talks, workshops and socializing about WordPress and publishing on the web.

FlashPress Presentation
FlashPress is an extension to WordPress, which allows the ability to use an essentially PHP based CMS to communicate with a Flash site. The FlashPress project aims to develop a new WordPress bundle that will allow anybody to download, install, choose a template, and be up running with a fully CMS backed Flash site or blog in minutes. As part of this project we will be publicly documenting the process, code, and challenges along the way.

The benefits of integrating Open Source alternatives in their commercial projects by using tools such as WordPress. I will also discuss how to optimize your web presence with Social techniques like twitter and Facebook, how to build a community around your brand, and what it takes to organize and manage large Open Source projects and communities such as PHUG.

“Plug-ins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.” In this workshop we will cover the following areas, Extending WordPress, Customizing WordPress Plug-ins, Tips On Writing WordPress Plug-ins, Writing WordPress Plug-ins, and Essential WordPress Plug-ins. Plus, that isn’t enough, we will build a simple Flash plug-in by the end of the workshop that you can take with you!

In this workshop, we will show the process of taking an HTML & CSS designs and PhotoShop templates and converting them into a fully working WordPress theme. Along the way, we’ll look at the main aspects of WordPress theming, some best practices and a few tricks. WordPress 2.6 and 2.7 makes the whole process easier than ever, so get started making your WordPress site look not like a WordPress site!