Tricks about wordpress themes and plugins:
Usually the get_calendar() function with the default argument of 1, which makes the calendar displays a little bit narrow. Just use get_calendar(0), which shows the day in the form of 3 letter instead of 1 letter and thus makes its display broad.
For random quotation, I’m using quotation collection. Acutally I can directly use the one coming with the installation: hello_dolly(), but this does not support multiline quotes.
Archives sidebar usually was displayed by month. To get a monthly post count, add show_post_count=1 after type=monthly, i.e., changing to wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly&show_post_count=1’)