So, when I saw recipes for pizza sauce and dough on Smitten that originally came from Mario Batali, I figured they were worth a shot. And Michael came home with two huge bunches of asparagus the other day (one white, one green), so I thought we’d try the asparagus pizza too. We recruited a couple friends to help with the baking and the eating, and… well, NOM. We were a little short on mozzarella, but we grated some white cheddar to fill in, and that made a great combination. For the sauce, I decided to start with canned peeled tomatoes, since it’s already getting hard to find good fresh ones. That worked; I just let it cook down while we waited for the dough to rise. I kept adding red pepper flakes to make the sauce spicier. (I wasn’t kidding about wanting a kick. Michael: “Who are you, and what have you done with my wife?”)

Our guests brought peaches that were a little underripe, so they fixed that by caramelizing them with butter and brown sugar, and we dumped them over the fresh batch of vanilla ice cream I’d just put in the freezer.

At the end of the month, I’m speaking at OpenCamp Dallas on the hidden gems of WordPress. When I showed early drafts of my content management and theme chapters to some friends, I got several “I didn’t know that!” responses from people who’d been using WordPress for years, so I think this session will be helpful for newbies and pros alike.

And coming up soon, I’ll be hosting a webinar on custom content types and taxonomies in 3.0 for HigherEdExperts.com. We’ve just decided to reschedule this, so I’ll post the registration details when we set the new date.

I went prowling in Office Max to see if one of their business card holders would work. They didn’t have any I liked, but they did have some sign holders on clearance. At 2-for-1, I figured I could afford to mess with them.

I bought the 5″x7″ version of this Rolodex sign holder, although I suspect the wooden base is the same and the only difference is the plastic piece. I tossed out the plastic part and handed the base to Michael, who disappeared into the garage for a while and returned, covered in sawdust, to show me what he’d wrought: a widened groove that holds the narrow end of the Dodo.

My slides are up on Slideshare, if you want a copy. The fonts are screwy, but I’ve just accepted that I can’t fix them. Apparently Slideshare doesn’t do Clarendon. There’s also a Ustream video of my talk. (Oh, you guys. Have I mentioned how much I hate having my picture taken? Video is SO MUCH WORSE.) I’ll extract the audio later and add it to the Slideshare file.

This was my first keynote speech, and I didn’t get tweckled, so I suppose it went well! It was also the only event all summer where I wasn’t talking about WordPress. (In fact, stay tuned later today for my complete schedule of August WordPress events.) I can’t make it to the national HighEdWeb conference this year, and I’m going to miss those folks something fierce, so it was great to get my annual dose of higher-ed camaraderie a little early. It was also great to see the friends I made in May at WordCamp Fayetteville. I hope this group does it again next year!

function print_menu_shortcode($atts, $content = null) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array( 'name' => null, ), $atts));
	return wp_nav_menu( array( 'menu' => $name, 'echo' => false ) );
}
add_shortcode('menu', 'print_menu_shortcode');

Place this in functions.php, then use [menu name="main-menu"] to call the menu in your content (replacing "main-menu" with your menu’s slug, of course).

You could adapt this to accept any of the other arguments available for wp_nav_menu(), but this served my purposes.

This is a utility for converting lots of posts or pages to a custom post type (or vice versa). You can limit the conversion to posts in a single category or children of specific page. You can also assign new taxonomy terms, which will be added to the posts’ existing terms.

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