Another week has passed, which means another issue of WordPress weekend resources.

How to Display Ratings with WordPress Links – This tutorial by Zach Dunn over at Build Internet goes over how to take advantage of a feature already built in to WordPress’ link management system. It goes over all the code you’ll need to display a star rating for link lists in WordPress.

Contextually changing your theme’s stylesheet – Justin Tadlock goes over how to dynamically change your theme stylesheet depending on which page you’re on through the functions.php file. Included in the post is all the code you’ll need, as well as an explanation.

10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks – This article by Jean-Baptiste Jung over at Smashing Magazine goes over several useful tips that have to do with WordPress comments. If you ever wanted to know how to display Twitter avatars in comments, or get rid of HTML links, among other comment-related hacks, check this post out.

Multiple WordPress Loops Explained – This post by Cristian Antohe at Cats Who Code explains how multiple WordPress loops work. If you’re not familiar with WordPress loops, I recommend you check out an earlier article I wrote here: The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Loop

If you know of any other recently published WordPress resources, be sure to let me know in the comments!

P.S. I just asked a question on Twitter about this week’s theme battle. If you’re on Twitter, be sure to let me know what you think.

Theme Battles are a first here at Theme Lab. Below are screenshots of two uncoded designs, both created by Anto. It’s pretty simple, vote for the theme you’d rather see coded into a WordPress theme. Next week, I’ll tally up the votes and start coding the winning theme.

Read on to vote, and get more information on this new event at Theme Lab…

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The release of WordPress 2.8.2 has been announced. This was a relatively unexpected release, however it fixes a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to comment author URLs not being fully sanitized. This could then cause you to be directed to another site from your admin panel.

I’ve been reading on Twitter that people haven’t had any problems upgrading, it looks to be a pretty simple fix. Just to be on the safe side, I’d recommend you take a backup before upgrading.