Regardless of whether you are running a simple personal blog or using WordPress as a full-featured corporate content management system (CMS), you should seriously consider adding all of these plugins. These plugins help you control spam, optimize your site for search engines, track site visits and other metrics, allow you to display related posts throughout…

In my first article about WordPress, I’ll show you how to easily add a page to your WordPress site that allows your users to invite their Facebook friends to check out your website. You’ll first need to have Facebook Connect up and running on your site. More on that later. What I did was  make…