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 [...]

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 [...]

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!