BettyJJ

<h4>Main features of the plugin:</h4>
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<li>It supports multi-byte language (such as Chinese). It will not produce gibberish as some other excerpt plugins do.</li>
<li>The html tags in the original posts, i.e., the font styles, colors, hyperlinks, pictures and such are preserved in the excerpt.</li>
<li>For better readability, it displays 300 characters for each post on the homepage and 150 characters for each post on archive pages.</li>
</ol>


WP-UTF8-Excerpt

This plugin generates a better excerpt for multi-byte language users (Chinese, for example). Besides, it keeps the html tags in the excerpt.

Tommy Ferry

<p>Bored of hunting down the edit button for your homepage?</p>
<p>This plugin adds an ‘Edit Homepage’ link to the WP admin sidebar. The edit link can be found in the admin sidebar: ‘Pages > Edit Homepage’.</p>
<p>If you don’t have a homepage set, the link will simply not appear.</p>


WP Edit Homepage

A simple solution to finding the homepage for quick-editing, especially useful when trying to find the homepage in a messy list of Pages, or when managing lots of websites

Simple solution to an annoying problem

Works a treat. You'll miss it when it is not there!

Super handy light weight solution

A simple WordPress plugin that adds a homepage edit link to the admin sidebar.

WP-UTF8-Excerpt vs WP Edit Homepage