Another couple weeks have gone by, so here’s another set of WordPress weekend resources.

How to disable scripts and styles – In this post, Justin Tadlock goes over how to disable scripts and styles added to your WordPress sites by plugins. This has a number of uses, for example if you don’t want the Contact Form 7 stylesheet to load on other pages besides your “Contact” page.

10 Most Wanted Category Hacks and Plugins for WordPress – This post over at WPBeginner goes over several useful hacks related to WordPress categories. Learn how to use category icons, exclude certain categories from your menus, and more.

Top 5 WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely Don’t Follow – This post by Brad Williams over at WPTavern goes over a number of useful WordPress security tips, such as not using the admin account. Some people in the comments mention that some of these methods are “security through obscurity” although the tips are useful nonetheless.

WLTC Contest WordPress Plugins – This is a list of plugins submit to the Weblog Tools Collection plugin competition of 2009. Some very interesting plugins are included such as the One Time Password plugin, and a bunch of Twitter-related plugins. All of them are up for download.

Thanks for reading. If you know of any other recently published WordPress resources, let me know.

Custom Theme is a project I’ve been working on for about a month now. Basically, I’m going to offer an affordable custom WordPress theme development service.

I’ve received a number of inquiries through Theme Lab asking if I offered custom theme design services. I’ve had to turn down these requests because, to put it simply, I don’t design.

I do code though, so when I came across the opportunity to acquire this perfect domain name, I decided to partner with a designer and offer a service like this.

The designer is Peter Mark of Hive Designs. You may know him as the designer of the Theme Lab theme (the one I’m currently using) as well as a few free themes here.

So, at these prices I’m expecting to get a lot of orders. If you want a custom WordPress theme, be sure to check out the site and make your order soon.

As predicted, WordPress 2.8.4 has been released. No surprise here, after news about the admin password reset “exploit” issue surfaced yesterday. Yeah, there’s some arguments over whether it’s a security issue or not, but it can be pretty annoying if you get hit by it.

It’s highly recommended you upgrade immediately. This is a pretty minor upgrade as it’s supposed to only fix the one bug. Anyone know the record of most point releases on a single branch?

By the way, if you ever come across an undiscovered WordPress security issue, make sure you know the correct way to report it. Blabbing about how you used it on sites you don’t own/administer under the guise of “proof-of-concept” is not the correct way,.