: What WordPress plugins are "must have" for a site? I'm new to WordPress CMS and have just created a site+blog using it. What set of plug-ins do you recommend me to install? I believe there

@Heady270

JS and CSS Script Optimizer - combines your scripts and stylesheets into one document each for minimizing total HTTP requests. The web page generally doesn't render until all of the stylesheets have been loaded, so if you have several attached, this can really improve load time.

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@Becky754

Akismet has privacy issues, false positives, and is highly recommended by some blackhats I know (so they can spam you more) - go for WP Spam Free.
WP.com stats? seriously? Google Analytics with one of the many plugins combined with maybe Getclicky for live data. Well unless you are just looking at your stats for fluff and don't need to track goals.
Why tweetmeme? These days even they don't recommend their own buttons - far better either topsy or the new Twitter buttons depending on the control you need for redirects and messaging.

Real essential?

There is no such thing as an essential plugin other than one of the many backup plugins for when you get hacked. It will happen... plan for it in advance.

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@Pope3001725

Askimet is a must have for spam control

WordPress.com Stats is great for stats

WP Super Cache, or any other caching plug in, is good for performance

TweetMeme Retweet Button is good for getting users to tweet about a blog post

This is a list of the most popular plug-ins. That's probably because they're very useful in some way.

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