My 10 Base Install WordPress Plugins

There are some plugins that are standout candidates to be rolled into the core of WordPress as ‘canonical’, ‘core’, ‘anointed’ or whatever Automattic end up calling them. I just think of them as essential.

For now you’ll just have to install them manually. These are the plugins that I install into a WordPress site as soon as I set it up, with a little explanation of what it does and why you want it.

To install a plugin, go to the ‘Plugins > Add New’ page in your WordPress Admin area.

WP Supercache
It’s all too easy to go overboard with WordPress plugins but each of them takes time to process a post, slowing down your blog. QP Supercache helps speed things up by storing cached pages. There are some confusing advanced settings and for maximum compatibility I tend to leave it on ‘half-on’ for the WP Touch plugin.

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