Sam Gamdschie

SPS-Suite is the successor of “SPS -Sidebar Page Switcher”. It enhances your page-list and your archive-list in the sidebar as well as your search function. This plugin is useful for blogs with many static subpages and the wish of a small sidebar. 
Please take a look at the screenshots or at the pages mentioned below for a better understandig of the plugin’s functions. 
The plugin includes a widget for your widget-ready sidebar and is now compatible up to WP 2.8. 
There are several options implemented in the plugin: 
1. You can have the sidebar-page-list be more smart, e.g. only pages of the top level and all useful level are displayed, additionally you can hide pages from being displayed in the sidebar. 
2. You can extend your search function with a fulltext index, this search uses articles and pages and is restricted to MySQL 4.0 or higher. 
3. Addionally to the sidebar function this plugins allows you to display a navigation bar, which can help your users to maneuver through many sub- and subsubpages. 
4. Last not least this plugin shortens your archive list to a maximum of month displaying also all years.
Feel free to look at <a href=”http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de>http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de or <a href="http://www.hobbingen.de" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.hobbingen.de</a> (German only) for a detailed picture of the functions (both pages use the plugin intensively). 
(Also compatible to WP 1.5 to WP 2.0 with an old version of the plugin, see plugin homepage)
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Please contact me if there any issues with this plugin.
Version History: 
1.4.0 Update for new admin panel and some minor bugfixes 
1.3.4 corrected issues with query replacements for static pages (introduced by 2.5/2.6) 
1.3.3 corrected issues with standard language (english) in admin pages 
1.3.2 corrected some issues with unknown pages 
1.3.1 added support for widgets 
1.3. initial release of the current stable trunk

SPS-Suite

Suite for enhancing your 'static' pages and archives. This plugin hides pages from the page list, displays a navigation row and more.

iamgarrett

Google’s Blogger tool has a great blogroll gadget, which I’ve always wanted in WordPress. I tried a few plugins that advertised similar behavior but was never quite satisfied – so I made my own.
This will grab all your links with a category of ‘sidebar’ and show them in a list on your sidebar. Specify each link’s RSS/Atom feed address and it will grab the latest post, a link, and reorder the list based on when these posts were written. It only requires that you have jQuery and PHP and uses the Links and Widget section already included in WordPress.

Good Reads

An ordered blogroll widget for your sidebar that displays your favorite blogs, what they're writing, and when.

SPS-Suite vs Good Reads