Creating a conditional sidebar widget in Wordpress turned into an odyssey of discovery. How an obscure usage of query_posts will bork your is_home() conditional tags.

Just a quick post to announce the rebirth of the blog here at Webstractions. As mentioned in an old post, I am switching over from an FTP based Blogger account to Wordpress and that day finally came.
The theme is a little bare right now. Lots of work to be done, so excuse the mess (or [...]