One of the best and easiest ways to connect with readers outside of your website is through Twitter. By adding a “follow me” badge or image to your sidebar, you’ll find that other twitterers who call by your blog will very often add you to those they already follow.

Plugins add so many new functions to wordpress, but there are so many available, it’s hard to know where to start. I use more than just ten plugins on each of my own wordpress blogs, but if I had to choose just ten, then these would definitely be it.