WordPress

Basics

• Docs
  • Theme Development
  • Stepping Into Templates
  • Template Hierarchy
  • Template Tags
  • The Loop
  • Site Design and Layout

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar#New_way_of_adding_sidebars
  • http://stackoverflow.com/a/1398524

Plugins

• Plugins
• Plugin API

Post Extras

• Another Related Posts Plugin [1]

Widgets

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-page-widget/ [2] - breaks external link output (even with a tag allowed). no support or development.
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-on-widget/ - passes through images, ignores read more cut
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/2046s-widget-loops/ - no excerpt length option
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-in-widget/ - passes full page, 'show more link' no works.
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-custom/ - adds an extra sidebar, not widget?!?
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spectacula-page-widget - cannot alter excerpt length
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-page - cannot choose which tags to pass
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-excerpts/ - doesn't actually give excerpt field or related widget..
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-page-widget/ - really basic, only option is page id
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-and-page-excerpt-widgets/ - no length option, etc, broken plugin links

oh FFS wordpress plugin ecosystem....

Template

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/improved-include-page/

Theming

• http://pippinspages.com/wordpress/wordpress-font-uploader-plugin/

not tried

and some i'm not going to bother trying...

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/ - excerpt without html stripped.
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-content-blocks/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-widget-area/ - no idea how this goes beyond adding a new sidebar the regular manner
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/site-layout-customizer/ - alternate layouts. using a SHORTCODE?!

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wysiwyg-widgets
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-sidebars/ - page specific sidebars

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-countdown-widget/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress/

Countdown

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/countdown-timer/ - has been used on beltane.org. event title is not widget title, leaves extra space by default, cannot remove "in " before time.

• http://www.wpmanage.com/uji-countdown/ - nice looking, html5/js, cannot disable seconds, tho you can animate them..

• http://mycountdown.org/wordpress-countdown-clock-plugin/ - limited colour settings, cannot turn off theme..

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recurring-timer-widget/ - nice time setting interface but cannot change "minutes", "seconds", etc. which have no space between them and the number.

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-count-down/ - text, days only

Flickr

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/awesome-flickr-gallery-plugin/
• http://www.slickrflickr.com/

Analytics

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/

SEO

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

Contact

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/