Not a plugin but easy to integrate into your wp theme: jQuery Image Gallery with jCarousel. You’ll just have to insert special queries to get the images commimg from posts or even special categories or even custom post type ‘featured’.
I use Easy Fancybox. It has a number of great features that allows for auto-detection of image files, and fancybox allows for HTML or inline, which is what you are looking for. It also allows for it to automatically popup, just attached the fancybox-auto class
You may want to consider Cart66. I bought a single site license a few weeks back as I was looking for something along a similar line to you. It doesn’t force a bunch of bespoke templates on you, instead, you have to create each product through a custom post (which is what you are doing … Read more
The user automatically gets a profile page, in the form of http://example.com/author/user-name When a user has no posts, most themes display the 404 template. But it’s perfectly possible for a theme to customise the author.php template to display more than just a list of posts by that user, even when the user doesn’t have any … Read more
I am a front-end developer working full time with Event Espresso. This is by far the most flexible, feature rich platform if you want to work exclusively with WP without using an external booking manager. Its relatively easy to develop for.
Here’s a quick shortcode I put together for your functions.php file if you want to use it as a starting point. or it can be converted to a plugin if you prefer. function wpse27961_show_tagged_posts( $atts ) { extract( shortcode_atts( array( ‘tags’ => ”, ‘number’ => 5, ), $atts ) ); $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => … Read more
rename your intro html file front-page.php and put it in your template directory, then create a dummy ‘intro’ page in WordPress and set that as your front page.
You can use the built-in WordPress attachments to accomplish this. You can add a template file called image.php to your theme. The best place to start is open the Twenty Eleven theme and look at the file named image.php. It has all of the code you need to get started. I would then use the … Read more
You can use the default Gallery Shortcode within your post by specifying a post ID. ID == the original post the photos to which the photos are attached. Hope this helps.
Assuming your happy to accept a solution involving one of the plugins you listed under the “Partly woking:” heading. Widgets of Posts by Same Categories http://svn.wp-plugins.org/widgets-of-posts-by-same-categories/trunk/widgets-of-posts-by-same-categories.php Only need literally 1 or 2 lines of code, depending on how you want to handle the “post does not have a thumbnail” scenario. Around this area of the … Read more