If you are a long-time Wordpress developer who understands all the ins and outs of theme development then this post isn’t for you.
OK, now we’ve got that out of the way, for those of you left, let’s try and decipher where the real value lies in theme frameworks. Help comes in the shape of a [...]

Andy Peatling from BuddyPress kicks off Wordcamp 2009 for me. So, what is BuddyPress? In another presentation, Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress founder describes BuddyPress as ‘Facebook in a box’ ideally suited to the creation of niche social networks. Features include in-depth profile pages, a life-stream, messaging, groups, albums, forums, blogs (obviously, given that it’s from [...]

Wordcamps are events organised by the Wordpress gang to pull together developers working on the popular blogging platform. The latest event took place recently in San Francisco, pulling together some of the top brass working on Wordpress. The affable inventor of Wordpress, Matt Mullenweg led the proceedings.
Wordpress sessions of interest:

SEO for Wordpress
Secret of virality
BuddyPress: Social [...]

Unfortunately I didn’t get to attend this session, but thankfully, through the beauty of blogging, there are numerous other accounts online.
BuddyPress grew out of a series of plug-ins that added social functionality to Wordpress MU (the multi-user edition). It is being touted as Facebook-in-a-box, ie. you can setup your own personal Facebook for your community.
More [...]

Stephan Spencer from Netconcepts led this well-attended session on how to maximise search visibility using Wordpress. Generally, blogs work well for search engine optimization (SEO) due to their emphasis on generating lots of regularly updated content. However, there are steps you can take to optimize the standard Wordpress installation.
Key points:
Internal linking
Try and ensure your internal [...]

OK, I thought there would have been a whole lot of documenation on this, but I’ve been trying to crack this for a while (read: find something useful from somebody clever online).
I’ve tried a few implementations of PHP and XML-RPC myself, with probably the closest approach being using Keith Devens’ XML-RPC classes using this [...]

It’s taken me some time to get on the tagging revolution, but I think it may just have happened.
Somebody introduced me to the SimpleTagging Widget for Wordpress. I guess for me the killer app was the type-ahead feature which helps you see what other tags have been used.

The other key advantage is the [...]