Top 5 Polished Premium Plugins for Wordpress

1. Events Calendar Pro

The Events Calendar Premium plugin for Wordpress enables you to rapidly create and manage events using the post editor. Features include Google Maps integration as well as default templates such as a calendar grid and event list for streamlined one click installation.
The plugin is greate addon for your Wordpress if you have to manage a distributed team or just put some info about your gig on a band site. Adding events never was so easy – it’s like posting on your blog – something you already do with Wordpress.

The Premium Events Calendar Plugin features:

• Manage event details in the Events post type
• Upcoming Events Widget
• Provides full template to complement the 2010 theme out of the box (month and list view)
• Extensive template tags for customization
• Google Maps Integration
• Calendar Month view with tooltips
• Detailed List view
• In Depth Screencast and Documentation included just to be safe!
• Includes support for venue, cost, address, start and end time, google maps link
• Support for international addresses, time and languages
• If you’ve been searching for a way to manage events, band gigs, concerts, charity events, conferences, tour calendar, or any other time based event inside Wordpress, this is the plugin you’ve been searching for! Install the plugin in minutes and start managing your events now!

Events calendar - best calendar plugin for Wordpress

2. uBillboard

If you post a lot of articles with photos (with you do if you are successful bloger) sooner or later you will need a slider. It should be easy to use, fast and need to look very good.
uBillboard is a slider for Wordpress. Authors have been developing sliders for our Wordpress themes for over a year now, and all that experience has been distilled into this one slider plugin. It is a premium quality jQuery-based slider with a nicely polished Wordpress admin.
Features:

• Sleek slider front end and admin
• 23 transition effects + Random
• Transition effects based on scaling, square and column animation, fading, etc.
• Paginator, that lets you easily switch among slides
• Loader that displays real loading progress
• Customizable resolution
• Automatic image scaling
• Great looking and easy to use admin interface
• Per-slide options like showing time, description layout, transition effect and more
• Support for HTML markup in descriptions
• Extensible, add your own filters to the billboard

Developers believe that with a feature set like this it will be of great value to both, new Wordpress users as well as seasoned expert users and developers, that would like to include it with their own themes.
With that in mind it supports the widest variety of platforms possible. Plugin support all Wordpress versions back to 2.8. and all major browsers.

uBilboard - premium slider with premium features

3. UberMenu

If you ever have problems with creating menu in Wordpress theme you should search no more.
UberMenu is a user-friendly, highly customizable mega menu WordPress plugin. It works out of the box with the WordPress 3 Menu Management System, making it simple to get started but powerful enough to create highly customized and creative mega menu configurations.
You could rapidly develop Mega Menus from your pages, posts, custom links, or any content with No PHP coding required!

The plugin is also highly Customizable – it includes :

• 21 Style Presets
• Easily customize colors and font sizes through the Control Panel, or use your own CSS styles
• Vertical and Horizontal Menus
• Supports both Slide and Fade Effects for Sub Menus
• Choose from Click or Hover Trigger
• Add an Image to any Menu Item through the Featured Imageinterface
• TimThumb (optional) to easily size and crop images to a standard width and height
• Add Descriptions to any Menu Item at any level
• Supports shortcodes for complete customization potential
• Menu is fully widgetized with unlimited widget areas!
• Drag and drop Widgetsinto the Menu areas with ease
  • Search
  • Contact Forms (requires plugin like Contact Form 7)
  • Latest Posts (Shortcode supporting featured images included)
  • Google Maps
  • Image Galleries (requires plugin like Slickr Flickr)

And much more!

UberMenu - a lot of options, a lot of Wordpress menus with few clicks

4. Font Uploader

Do you ever have problems with template where you would like to change fonts only? And you needed to go straight to css code to set the new fonts manually.
This plugin lets you upload your own font files and apply them to any element of your website without requiring a knowledge of html or css.

Use your own fonts with any Wordpress theme.

This plugin will work with any and all wordpress themes, commercial and free a like.

Features

• All .otf, .ttf, and .eot font files are supported
• 100% Cross browser compatible
• Control the fonts of every aspect of your wordpress site
• Font Size Control for all elements
• Compatible with Wordpress 2.6+
• Google webFont Support
• Easy to use
• Advanced section for those with html / css knowledge

Font uploader - for easy fonts in wordpress themes

5. Lightbox Evolution

Sooner or later you would also need a gallery for your blog or page. Why not to use the best lightbox plugin on the market?
Lightbox Evolution is a tool for displaying images, html content, maps, and videos in a “lightbox” style that floats overtop of web page. Using Lightbox Evolution, website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.
Futures:

• Can display images, HTML elements, SWF movies, Maps, and Ajax requests
• Customizable through settings and CSS
• Groups related items with navigation buttons
• Amazing animations!