You run a website that runs on wordpress right? If  you do, you must know which wordpress plugins are the most important. With thousands of choices it can get a bit hard to sift through them all and find the very best. Have no fear because thats what the Guerrilla is bringing you today – the top 10 MUST HAVE plugins for wordpress that EVERY blogger should have.

Installing blogs almost every day helps me realize which plugins are used the most and which are just MUST HAVE for every blogger. Below are the ten must have plugins for every blog that you need to download and use right now.

WP Super Cache

from the plugin page: This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

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WP Security Scan

from the plugin page: Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.

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All In One SEO

from the plugin page: Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

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WP DB Backup

from the plugin page: WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

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WordPress Mobile Edition

from the plugin page: WordPress Mobile Edition is a plugin that shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device. Mobile browsers are automatically detected, the list of mobile browsers can be customized on the settings page.

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Google XML Sitemaps

from the plugin page: This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

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Akismet

from the plugin page: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. (this plugin comes prepackaged with wordpress).

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WP Page Navi

This plugin changes the normal “Previous / Next” links at the bottom of your wordpress blog pages into numbered links so people can easily navigate your site and find content.

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Contact Form 7

from the plugin page: Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

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Comment Relish

from the plugin page: Comment relish is a WordPress plugin developed to send an e-mail message to users who comment on your website who have never commented before. The message dispatched to the user is defined within the plugin’s preferences. Numerous tags have been integrated to allow for information to be included in the message easily (I.E.: timestamp, author name, comment, ETC.).

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