customization - Display WordPress comments before the plugins? in WordPress

For Five Star Rating , the FAQ tells me you can leave out the shortcode from your articles (you added these to each article?), and then use echo five_star_rating_func('star') somewhere in your template. So this is a nice example of a plugin that offers both options.

For Simple Social , you need to disable the regular hook to the_content , and then call the function yourself. That could be done with the following code, which you can place in your theme's functions.php (or at the top of your single.php , if you only want it gone on single pages):

remove_filter(he_content', 'simple_social');

Then, to display it again where you want it, you call simple_social() with an empty content string (be sure to do this in The Loop, since it relies on the global $post variable):

echo simple_social('');