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"The Rating-Widget Ratings plugin allows you to create and manage ratings from within your WordPress dashboard. You can embed ratings into your posts, pages or comments. PLUS, you can embed ratings into your BuddyPress activity updates and comments. In extra, the rating support BP's bbPress forum posts ratings. All Rating-Widget ratings are fully customizable, cross-browser, support multi-language, CSS3 compliant and hosted by Rating-Widget.com. You can create unlimited ratings and collect unlimited votes. The rating editor allows you to fully customize your ratings and its placement on your blog's layout. You can also avail of the the 'Top Rated' widget that will allow you to place the widget in your sidebar. This widget will show you the top rated posts, pages and comments."

"Plugin allows you to set up advanced rating and review system for post types and comments in your blog using single, multi and thumbs ratings. GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings along with thumbs based ratings. Plugin supports use of cache plugins and dynamic loading of data using ajax."

2011 was a great year for web developers and designers, lots of new and exciting plugins comes in this year. For me the best WordPress Plugin in 2011 are as follows, hope you will be agree with me. Plugin are important part of WordPress Development and WordPress Design.

"Slick social share buttons adds facebook, twitter, google +1, linkedin, digg, delicious, reddit, stumbleupon and pinterest pin it social media buttons Add facebook, twitter, google +1, linkedin, digg, delicious, reddit, stumbleupon and pinterest pin it social media buttons to your website in either a floating or sliding panel and see summaries of all your social metrics in the admin social statistics page"

"Security has become a foremost concern on the Web in the past few years. Hackers have always been around, but with the increase in computer literacy and the ease of access to virtually any data, the problem has increased exponentially. It is now rare for a new website to not get comment spam within days of its release, even if it is not promoted at all."

"Adds shortcodes to easily create columns in your posts or pages Adds shortcodes to easily create columns in your posts or pages. Sometimes you just need to divide your page into different columns. With this plugin you just select a column shortcode and it will add the column to the page. There are 9 different column widths available from which you can make all combinations"

"Wrap block of text with shortcode. It will be split into columns. Automagically. You need to display your articles in magazine or newspaper style. Use this plugin. You don't have to change your theme files or add styles - just use "table" splitter. Features fully automatic splitter; create columns in table or div's; tag-aware; splits long paragraphs and unordered lists; keeps text with headers;"

"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."

"Recently, reader Luke Knowles asked how to customize the sort order of his posts in WordPress. Looking into a solution to this question proved quite enlightening. Within moments I was able to discern 4 methods for modifying post order, and then several days later I discovered 2 additional custom sorting techniques. After updating the reply to Luke's comment, it seemed like some good information that other WordPressers may find useful. So, here are six ways to customize the sort order of posts in WordPress."

"Ultimate newsletter plugin. Works with 3rd-party newsletter services like Aweber and YMLP. includes sign-up checkboxes, widget forms and form shortcod This plugin adds various sign-up methods to your WordPress website, like sign-up checkboxes in your comment form and a sign-up form to show in posts, pages or widget areas."

Displays information about your site, mostly gathered from the information you supply in your User Profile and General Settings WordPress Administration Screens. It can be used anywhere within a template file. This always prints a result to the browser. If you need the values for use in PHP, use get_bloginfo().

"In this article, I'll show you in a few short steps how to get started with modifying the login screen so that users experience a customized, branded look and feel. I went over the top with this design just to show how dramatically the login form can be stylized using a simple mod to the functions.php file and some CSS."

"Responsive Lightbox allows users to view larger versions of images and galleries in a lightbox (overlay) effect optimized for mobile devices. Responsive Lightbox allows users to view larger versions of images and galleries in a lightbox (overlay) effect optimized for mobile devices."

An XSS vulnerability was found in WordPress 4.2. The issue resulted in a quick update and critical security release. WordPress 4.2.1 is now available.

"Generate dummy Lorem ipsum text in posts and pages with shortcode. Includes a generator for unique and random customisation. Lipsum is a highly configurable plugin that generates shortcode that'll permit you to display dummy Latin (and non Latin) Lorem ipsum text in posts/pages with shortcode."

"Add reviews and testimonials to your website and easily display them in posts, pages or widgets using search-engine-friendly Schema markup. Add reviews and testimonials to your website and easily display them in posts, pages or widgets using a search-engine-friendly Schema markup. This plugin will output reviews using Schema.org markup to help search engines like Google identify and integrate the reviews with your listing."

"Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress' default way of creating excerpts. Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included) Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count Only the 'real' text is counted (HTML is ignored but kept) Customizes the excerpt length and the ellipsis character that are used Completes the last word or sentence in an excerpt (no weird cuts) Adds a read-more link to the text Ignores custom excerpts and use the generated one instead Theme developers can use the_advanced_excerpt() for even more control (see the FAQ) Most of the above features are optional and/or can be customized by the user or theme developer."

"My WP Backup is the best way to protect your website in the event of server loss, data corruption, hacking or to migrate your WordPress data easily. My WP Backup is the best way to protect your data and website in the event of adverse server events, data corruption, hacking and more. With the option to create whole site backups or database backups and have them delivered via FTP, Dropbox, and Google Drive, you can sleep easy knowing you're protected."

I decided to install a WordPress plugin to enhance the backend search in WordPress. My choice fell on a new free plugin called Admin Command Palette.

"Make comments management easier by applying some of the simple hacks the Yoast team uses. Make comments management easier by applying some of the simple hacks the Yoast team uses. This plugin adds some small hacks around core WordPress comments to make them more bearable: Cleaner comment notification emails. The option to disallow comments below a certain length. The option to redirect first time commenters to a thank you page. An input field on the comment edit screen to change the comment parent ID. Links in the admin comments section to email individual commenters. A button in the WP toolbar to email all the commenters on a post. See the screenshots to get an even better idea of the plugins functionality."