GD Star Rating is one of my favorite WordPress plugins – not just because it has a plethora of options and settings (uber-geek-factor), but also despite it’s overwhelming amount of options it is really simple to install and configure.
At first, the settings are overwhelming, yet easy to understand:
The plugin itself is self-explanatory and provides dashboards and widgets. It integrates with comments, pages, articles and fully supports other plugins (such as W3 Total Cache).