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Different Widgets for different sections.
Using the Widget Context Plugin
Giving your WordPress website different different sidebar widgets for different sections is easy enough to do using a plugin called “Widget Context“. Once you install this plugin you get some extra functionality in your dashboard’s widget menu. When you put any widget into your sidebar you can choose what sections of you website this widget will show up on. It can be displayed on your home page, blog page, single posts, single pages, search page, archive page and more. 
You can also use negative logic and hide that particular widget from certain sections. Whatever works best for your design. Here’s a look at the functionality block that gets added to your widget settings. Just select where you want or don’t want that widget displayed, save, and your all set.
One Theme, Different Headers
There are some WordPress Themes that come with different Header graphics and rotating headers or assignable headers by page or post. This functionality can be added to other themes also. There is a very handy plugin that works well for this called Dynamic Header by Nicasio Design & Development . It is also available in the WordPress Plugin area. There are a couple of steps to make this plugin work but its nothing that difficult. You need to make your header images first off. This means you have to open your graphics editor program of choice and create a couple of headers the same size as the one that is included in your theme.
After that, using FTP or file manager you have to create a new folder in your wp-content/plugins folder called /header-images and upload the new header files there. Upload your original header file there too if you want to use it. Install the plugin by uploading or through the WP dashboard and activate it. One more step. There is one string of code that you must copy and paste into your header.php file. Its usually placed right after the line that calls your original header graphic. There are more detailed instructions included. This plugin also supports flash headers.
Now in the page or post editor you will be able to select your header image of choice. Works well in Artisteer 2.4 themes.
Membership Websites using WordPress
If you want a website that allows for members to be able to view exclusive content and yet still have some content available for unregistered visitors then WordPress is the way to go. Using a plugin called WP-Members you can do just that. It even provides a registration form that includes additional personal information. You can block posts and pages so that they are available only to members and if a non member goes to one of the blocked pages they will get told it is exclusive content and they will be presented the registration form. We’ve tested the WP-Members plugin and in fact used it on a few business sites and it works very well. So here’s the answer to a membership website for your club, business, or association. We would be glad to help you develop your own membership website, just Contact Us.
Photo Galleries For Your Website
Pictures and graphics are one of the things people want on their websites the most. With our WordPress Websites we use the NextGen Gallery Plugin to create nice presentations. This great plugin lets you have photo galleries and then display them in posts or pages. You can display a gallery of thumbnails or a slideshow. You can use the individual photos in posts and pages also. All your photos can be stored away in galleries and albums so they are ready for use on your site any time. Totally integrated into your dashboard editor and all you do is select what you want. A little companion program is NextGen Smooth Gallery that lets you put a gallery slide show with different options in pages or posts also using simple short code.
Add Single Post Templates To WP
When you create a website or blog you want your visitors to get a variety of information. It’s always much nicer to have a 
few different styles to your pages and posts so you don’t bore people with the same look everywhere they go. This has always been possible with WordPress pages, where all you do is make a copy of your page.php file, rename it, add a little code to the top, upload it to the theme folder, and then when you create pages you get to select the page template you want to use. So by also copying your sidebar files and renaming those and also uploading them to the theme folder you can now call your different sidebars from your different templates. In your new sidebars you can code in different ads or widgets giving that page a different look to it. If you know what you are doing with the code you can also make page templates that display your page differently altogether like maybe full width and no sidebars at all.
Now you can do the same thing with your posts. Using the plugin called the “Single Post Template Plugin” , by Nathen Rice, you can do the exact same thing with your posts or articles. With this you copy the single.php file and insert the template code at the top just like in a page template. You can do the different sidebar thing or code in different ads to the top or bottom of your new templates. Just like a Page, when you edit or create a Post, you have a drop down to select the the post template you want to use.
This pluging does require a little extra work but it adds a nice touch to your blog or website and gives it additional functionality to set it apart from the rest.
Nathen Rice has some other nice plugins too and you can check them all out at http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/
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