This plugin creates a small photo album in the sidebar of your weblog and shows thumbnails of your photos using visual effects (javascript). The unique feature is a special shuffle mode and/or loop mode, that ensures that the order of pictures in the photo album is different from page to page, but remains the same for a given page (even if this page is reloaded).
Furthermore the order and picture selection changes for each page every day, so that over the time all photos from your collection will be displayed. As a bonus, there will be daily updates on pages that do show this sidebar widget. Your photo collection and the number of photos in the album is configurable in the admin section. Some OpenContent photos are included in the album and can be used for your experiments. Have a lot of fun …

Dynamic-Photo-Album

This plugin creates a small photo album in the sidebar of your weblog and shows thumbnails of your photos using visual effects (javascript).

stephenbaugh

This plugin gives you the ability to add a category introduction to each post. I have multiple topics I blog about and therefore want to put the post in prespective by sharing the category I added it to. No editing of themes is required to use the plugin and a default layout is setup on install. Play with the html layout until you get exactly what you want. 3 tags are provided to give you access to the category data [categoryID], [categoryTitle] and [categoryDescription] also optionally you can use php if you are an advanced user.
Tags are evaluated first, then php before the results are returned.
For more detailed information and installation information please visit this plugins <a href="http://www.stephenbaugh.com/blog/wordpress-plugins/category-intro-post/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page</a>
The html layout has 3 tags available
<ol>
<li>[categoryID] </li>
<li>[categoryTitle]</li>
<li>[categoryDescription]</li>
</ol>
<h3>Support</h3>
To ask questions, find answers to issues & make requests visit my <a href="http://www.stephenbaugh.com/blog/forums/" rel="nofollow ugc">forums</a>

Tui's Category Intro For Post

This plugin has been written to insert a category introduction to each post, based on its main category and that categories despription.

Dynamic-Photo-Album vs Tui's Category Intro For Post