The Advanced WordPress LA meetup group met up on Saturday. This is a link dump of some things we talked about.

We saw a jQuery plugin to convert SVG in <img> tags to the source XML:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11978995/how-to-change-color-of-svg-image-using-css-jquery-svg-image-replacement/11978996#11978996

We talked about grunt and gulp, for rolling your own task runners:
http://gruntjs.com/
http://gulpjs.com/

We looked at Help Scout for managing support tickets:
http://www.helpscout.net/
http://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-help-scout/
(and briefly mentioned an alternative)
https://www.groovehq.com/

This plugin helps customize outgoing emails:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-better-emails/

These plugins might be helpful for websites where membership is a central feature:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/
https://www.memberpress.com/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/paid-memberships-pro/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

This plugin helps control how and when certain plugins are loaded:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/

These plugins were mentioned as frequently-used by various folks:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpcore/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/edit-flow/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/public-post-preview/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-media-replace/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/intuitive-custom-post-order/

If you want to build your own plugin, this boilerplate could be a good start.
https://github.com/tommcfarlin/WordPress-Widget-Boilerplate

While a lot of people use Advanced Custom Fields, there are alternatives that are worth looking at:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/cmb2/
http://metabox.io/

Template redirects as an action people should be aware of:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/template_redirect

These plugins can help with keeping your site secure:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

Clef is a third-party authentication service with an accompanying WordPress plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpclef/

This article on securing WordPress is frequently-updated and very helpful:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

This font automatically redacts silly buzzwords using the power of OpenType:
http://www.sansbullshitsans.com

This JavaScript library contains a lot of dumb jokes:
http://letsgetrandy.github.io/DICSS/

This website ended the meetup with a bang:
http://www.lingscars.com/