http://sillybean.net reading, writing, web design, and the intersections thereof Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:53:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My presentation for OpenCa.mp this afternoon, WordPress Hidden Gems, is up on Slideshare. I’ll fill in some slide notes later, since it’s mostly screenshots and there’s much text in the transcript. Enjoy!

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I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Houston this Saturday. (It’s sold out, but HostGator is giving away a few more tickets this morning, so hurry over there if you want them!) My topic is WordPress as a…

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]]> http://sillybean.net/wordpress/call-a-navigation-menu-using-a-shortcode/ I’m moving some old posts over to a new post type now that I’ve upgraded the sites at work to WordPress 3.0, and I needed a way to convert hundreds of posts in a category. The Post Type Switcher…

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