The tools are Compass combined with Sass (which means Sytactically Awesome Stylesheets or some random crap like that).
Sass is cool because it lets you do a whole bunch of stuff with CSS that you couldn’t normally. It’s a kind of abstraction layer above CSS which means you can write normal CSS if you want, but then why wouldn’t you just write normal CSS instead of using Sass?
I’m getting slightly ahead of myself, but With Sass you can do awesome things like variable/placeholders which is awesome for things like defining core elements of a stylesheet such as a palette of colors.

В моём плагине не требуется вносить никаких изменений в шаблон - всё работает автоматически. Если же нужно отключить действие плагина локально в одном месте, то достаточно в шаблон вывода даты добавить «---».

MaxSite CMS предназначена для создания сайтов различной сложности. На текущий момент система полностью перекрывает возможности WordPress, а по производительности и скорости работы многократно его превосходит.

Powerful, clean, and well-noted code for efficient WordPress theme development

Custom Admin Branding Plugin allows you to not only re-brand the WordPress login screen, but also the admin header and footer with your own custom images. This will actually give your client an idea that the CMS is tailored specially for his business.

Продолжаем техническую подготовку проекта, а точнее будем конфигурировать наш движок для блога WordPress. И поскольку я решил всё таки работать во благо пост-советского информационного пространства (у буржуев своих писак хватает), то думаю, перевод интерфейса на русский будет совсем не лишним.

This template tag the_widget() displays an arbitrary widget as a template tag. It can be used anywhere in templates.

A WordPress plugin aimed primarily at events sites, where you want to be able to timestamp posts in the future but have them appear immediately (by default, WordPress will not display a future timestamped post until its go-live date rolls around). This plugin sets the post_status field to “publish” rather than “future” when publishing a post, even if its timestamp is in the future. Written by Ryan Boren – I’m just hosting it.

PrivateDaddy is the unobtrusive, graceful degradation solution for protecting email addresses

Hiding email addresses from spammers has a long history. There are some obvious golden goals, like making the process seamless to your visitors, and be practicable to implement. The one that often gets left out is accessibility, but in some areas this is actually a legal requirement.

Flexi Pages Widget is a highly configurable widget to list pages and sub-pages in WordPress sidebar. User friendly widget control comes with plenty of options. ‘Flexi Pages’ widget can be used as an alternative to the default WordPress ‘Pages’ widget.

This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more. To see this plugin in action, visit my sitemap page.

Breadcrumb NavXT is a WordPress plugin compatible with WordPress versions 2.6 and up. This plugin generates locational breadcrumb trails for your WordPress blog. These represent the hierarchy leading up to the current page rather than the actual path taken to arrive at the current page.

This plugin lets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. One way to use it is to wrap a part of your post in special tags (below) to prevent WordPress from converting newlines to HTML paragraphs, escaping apostrophes and so on. This is very useful if you need to add a CSS block or JavaScript to your post.

RawHTML will also add some new checkboxes to the "Edit" screen that will let you disable certain WP filters on a per-post basis. This way you can :

* Disable wptexturize (this filter creates smart quotes and other typographic characters).
* Disable automatic paragraph creation.
* Disable image smilies.
* Disable convert_chars (this filter converts ampersands to HTML entities and "fixes" some Unicode characters).

Featured Content Gallery is a WordPress plugin by iePlexus that creates an automated rotating image gallery of your posts or pages for use anywhere within your theme.