Weptile Image Slider Widget is a nice little slider for widget areas. I wanted something quick and simple for adding a little color to the sidebar. This slider has a number of transitions to choose from. You can set the image size and some other things. Oh, and it’s responsive! You can do all this…
Display Widgets is a very cool plug in. It will let you choose which pages or posts for any (most) given widget to appear on. I think this should be a default WordPress function. I am used to this kind of control using Joomla and find it indispensable.
This plug-in displays a list of tagged articles. It’s a widget for the sidebar and is very configurable. I was looking for a way to list articles by tags and not having to use the tag cloud, which is cool but not what I was after.
I wanted to add a widget area to the header of this theme. Pretty easy to do once you put all the pieces together. I am using a child theme made from Twenty Twelve. To add the new widget area you register it in the function.php file. Then put the div where you want it…