Addicott Web has a great little article online that goes in depth on the uses of WordPress conditional statements. The Conditional Tags can be used in your Template files to change what content is displayed and how that content is displayed on a particular page depending on what conditions that page matches. These statements enable a wide range of flexibility when it comes to when and where to display content. In fact, I use conditional tags all the time with my use of the Widget Logic plugin. I tell the widget which page I want it to be displayed on with a conditional statement and it only shows up on that page. I love these things. Let me know in the comments what you’ve been able to achieve using them in your own theme or widgets.

WordPress 2.9 New Features: Barbara Vaz has put together a seven minute video on the new Trash feature and the new image and media manipulation features in WordPress 2.9 but the video is in Portuguese. Since I don’t understand the language, even a muted look through the video was interesting. Also of interest is a series of posts by Ronen Hirsch about getting started with WordPress. Topics are as simple as straightforward as what one can do with WordPress, where to get and use WordPress and some of the simpler features of WordPress.

CMSWire in partnership with Water And Stone has released their 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share report. The report is free if you care to dive in and look at look at the results which were comprised of over 1,000 respondents. I don’t think anyone will be surprised to know that the top three systems represented in the survey are Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. However, unlike last year, all three switched top metrics with Joomla taking the popularity prize. However, WordPress dominated the brand strength category. According to CMSWire, they think that having two projects with the same name contributed a large part to the branding strength of WordPress. WordPress.com the free hosting service enables users to get their feet wet encouraging them later on to take the plunge to self install WordPress. To veterans in the WordPress community, this branding is a nightmare but it’s obviously had a positive […]

WordPress 2.8.5 has officially been tagged and is now available for download. If you don’t see the upgrade nags in your administration panel already, give it a few hours and upgrade when it becomes available. This release has been dubbed a security hardening release meaning, more preventive measures have been taken to secure WordPress. Worthy of note though is an issue that was addressed dealing with a trackback spam denial of service attack which was discussed on the WP-Hackers mailing list the other day. This exploit takes advantage of the WP-Trackback.php file which would exhaust a servers resources when used. This has specifically been addressed in 2.8.5. Thanks goes out to Steve Fortuna for releasing a fix to this 0 day exploit. The release also contains a few bug fixes as well.

The WordPress.com has announced that mobile friendly themes will be turned on by default for all WordPress.com blogs. Blogs will be displayed using 2 themes, based on the type of phone used for browsing.

wpFolio Two column, widget ready theme available in five colors twitter feed, Jquery featured carousel and a help document. Modern Style Two column theme with an options page and two 125×125 banner ads in the sidebar ready for use accompanied by social networking icons. WordPress Debug Theme This is a theme with a difference. This theme will help you debut your blog in case there is a problem. NOTE: This is not for live sites. Blue Steel The Blue Steel WP theme, spruced corporate style for a WP powered site with the brandnew revamped Blue Steel WordPress Theme theme, featuring a two column fixed layout, third and spiced up version of the Blue Steel 3.17 WordPress Theme, enabled with flickr support, pagenavi support, frontpage slider, options panel, related posts and recent comments are built into the theme. Are you a theme author? If so, read how you can submit your […]

Back in August, I asked the following question: Why Is Gravatar Still Not Mainstream?. You folks supplied a wealth of answers to the question but many of the answers suggested something along the lines of making it easier to obtain a Gravatar through registration if they didn’t have one. While I’ve yet to see news on such an integration, there is a plugin that has been developed by Milan Dinic called Gravatar Signup Encouragement which enables you to encourage Gravatar registration to anyone who is not a registered member on your WordPress powered site. Message can be shown to: unregistered commenters when they leave text input field for e-mail address registered commenters to whom their registered e-mail address is checked registered users on their profile page, to whom their registered e-mail address is checked users who fill registration form when they leave text input field for e-mail address You can […]

New Plugins Community Links Feed Community Links Feed plugin for WordPress allows your blog or website’s community users to submit their favorite links to your website. Upon submission, the community links appear in the Dashboard where the administrator can approve or reject them as appropriate. Once approved, the community links feed appears in a customizable sidebar widget. Admiyn Juitter This plugin will show in your posts pages what the people are talking about the “Search Object” at current time in the twitter and will update the page in a interval of time that you can specify; See that my plugin offer to you the option to choose what use as a “Search Object”, the option supported are “Author Name”, “Post’s Category”, “Post’s Tags” or “Post’s Title”, this stuff is very useful because there are a lot of kinds of usage of the WordPress, and each type requires different options. Instant […]