You maybe a newbie to wordpress and not know exactly what you need to get your blog, site, or mini-site off the ground. Well here are 7 plug-ins that will not only improve the look and feel of your site but will also give you the edge you need for SEO and comprehensibility when using wordpress.

1. Akismet – This plug-in protects your blog or website from spam comments. You may not see spam comments for a while but once you site gets indexed in search engines or becomes popular you will see them by the thousands. This plug-in comes pre-installed with all wordpress installations so make sure you activate it.

2. All in One SEO Pack – This is the bread and butter of your wordpress site. The All in One SEO Pack is one of the most important plug-ins for you site because it puts everything you need to optimize your site all in one place.

3. cformsII - This is the most comprehensive forms creator out on wordpress right now. It is one click insert and a super simple to understand in creating and storing forms. Perfect for creating contact pages!

4. Google XML Sitemaps - This is another plug-in for optimizing your website. It will automatically creat a sitemap for your site and ping it off of google. Which in return lets the search engines know that you site is ready to be crawled.

5. Sociable – The most perfect plug-in for all of your social network needs. Allows you visitors or you to submit they article or site to various, by various i mean TONS, of different social networks and sites like DIGG or StumbleUpon.

6. WP-Cumulus – If you are a tags person this is the coolest plug-in for you. It will display all of your tags in like sort of a rotating ball that people can look through and play with. Definetly an eye catcher!

7. WordPress Mobile Edition – I know we have quite a few .mobi lovers out here so this one is for you. It will create a mobile version of the wordpress site. Along with that it will automatically detect the mobile browser and list of browsers can be customized.

Well there you have it, the simple list of essential plug-ins for every wordpress site out there. This is a pretty general list of “essential” plug-ins but it will get you off to a great start and let you hit the ground running. IF you want to look up some plug-ins just head on over to WordPress.org.

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