For a long time I was planning to change the layout of the Archives page on BioTecK.net. If you don’t have an Archives page and you don’t know how to create one; then you could follow the steps mentioned in “How To Create An Archives Page“.

At first I wanted to use the Accordion function of the jQueryui.com but as that didn’t worked out as I wanted too and I decided to look for another solution. The main goal for doing this was… Continue reading here »»

WordPress 3.0 is out and I just updated my version to 3.0 and I got to say: It’s great! If you’re running a WordPress blog then you really should consider to updating it! More information on WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” can be found here.

We all know the importance of having backups of our files such as pictures, mp3′s, documents etc so I’m not going into that but as a blogger…Do you also make backups of your WordPress database? If not, you really should!

Making a backup of your WordPress database is also very important. I mean you don’t want to loose all your posts, comments, pages etc, do you? Well I don’t. So that’s why I have this very handy plugin installed:  WordPress Database Backup.
This plugin enables you to backup your core WordPress database tables as… Continue reading here »»

I just updated the gallery page by using jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries plugin. This plugin makes the WordPress galleries to use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images. This looks much better then the Slimbox which I had installed till a couple of minutes ago!

Just wanted to say that I really love the Akismet Spam filter!
So far it has caught more then 19,000 spams and I just deleted 700 spam comments. Imagine getting all of those emails in your inbox!

So if you haven’t Akismet running on your blog and you want to have a spam free blog, then you really should give it a try.  The installation is very easy; Download the plugin (via the plugin page in the admin part if you’re using WordPress), get your API Key & activate Akismet and you’re good to go!

Before I start explaining how you can get rid of the encoding in a theme’s footer, I have to say that if your theme’s license (paid theme!) doesn’t permit this, then don’t do it. If that’s the case you can find plenty other (free) WordPress themes!

I don’t know why, but some theme authors embed links in an encoded footer. Now it’s not that we don’t like to give credits to the theme authors, but what if the theme author has placed a lot of sponsor links which doesn’t have to do with your blog (or with the… Continue reading here »»

I just updated to WordPress 2.8.5… Installation went easy (as usually)! If you have a WordPress powered blog, make sure you’re running the newest version. Ow yeah, don’t forget to backup your stuff first! Click here to find out more about the latest release. Now I’ll go and update BJ-Alborz.com!

For a long time I was looking for a way to display Miniposts. Miniposts (or asides) are actually small blog posts that live outside of the usual hierarchy of postings. Miniposts are posts with let’s say 1 or 2 sentences in length, so that’s why the call it Miniposts!

In the past I had tried some plugins but they didn’t do the job as I would like to. While surfing on the net today, I found the solution to my “problem”. The solution is actually a plugin called: Miniposts. Kinda obvious! So from today… Continue reading here »»