No matter what kind website you create using wordpress, you always need to do lots of customization via themes & plugins. An attracktive design simply shortens the distance between our sites and visitors. Every site owner is trying to enable various functions for better success. We have collected 5 best rated plugins to beautify your wordpress site in minutes.

NO.1 Unique Cursor

This plugin allows you to replace your default mouse cursor from 50+ custom image files. It's extremely helpful if you operate a game related website. Screenshot as below

Plugin download: http://wordpress.org/plugins/unique-cursor/

NO.2 WP Google Fonts

It's connected to google's free font directory where hundreds of great fonts are provided. The fonts development never stops so we can always get big surprise when refreshing the page. Google fonts let developers do not have to make custom design in order to display special charactors and you don't have to upload various js files to web directory to slow down its response. Not only perfect for web developers but also great for users to setup a professional site

Plugin download: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-fonts/

NO.3 WP Login Pro

This is a commercial plugin developed by wploginpro.com site. Users got the opportunity to customize wordpress login page by multiple professional design. Logo, layout and background are all customizable with your needs. Take a look for example below:

The plugin can be purchased through http://wploginpro.com directly which costs you $17. However, not everybody would like to pay for such solution. Hence, there's an alternative solution provided by wordpress enthusiast. Just go ahead to download this package, unzip it then upload to your theme directory. Once done, open your theme's functions.php file then add the following:

include('login/login.php');

You can upload your own logo and background pictures with your preference.

NO.4 Auto Highslide

It's probably the best light weight image slider plugin for wordpress. By default, when we add an image by media uploader, it'll auto link via picture absolute path. When clicking on it, picture will be opened in seperate window. It's absolutely not what we wanted. Auto Highslide fixed the problem perfectly. Just get the plugin installed with no further configuration required. Once you image is clicked, it will be prompted up with slider option to view other pictures on same page.

Usage: <a href="http://www.yoursite.com/img.jpg"><img alt="highslide showcase" src="http://www.yoursite.com/img.jpg" width="500" height="300" /></a>

It's highly recommended you can define the picture width so it can render properly.

Plugin download: http://sharepic.googlecode.com/files/auto-highslide.zip

NO.5 Rconix Shortcodes

Developed by John Gardner. With this plugin you can easily add various kinds of styled boxes, buttons and tabs etc by short codes. See samples below:

The purpose of this plugin is to style your words and other elements in a color box for professional management. The advantage of Rconix shortcodes is you don't need complex setup for this effect, everything is done through multiple sets short codes. We can fully customize it with our personal skills.

Plugin download: https://wordpress.org/plugins/arconix-shortcodes