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 …

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 …

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. …

Time for a new post.. Yeah, this are very busy times for me as I’m getting married on the 4th of September! We still have 3 weeks to go and we still have to arrange some little stuff so that’s why this blog doesn’t get updated that much!
You can visit our wedding blog at: BJ-Alborz.com for more information and updates on our wedding!
Anyway, in the meanwhile I had some time to update the gallery page! A lot of people and friends didn’t liked the way the gallery worked …

When setting up a new wordpress blog, most people pay more attention to the design of there blog; Editing the CSS file, thinking about how to arrange the sidebar, placing adsense codes on the blog, signing for a Feedburner account and placing the Feedcount somewhere in the sidebar along with a RSS icon.
However people seem to forget to update the feed links in the header section of the blog. The feed link in the header section is used by the autodiscovery feature on most browsers such as Firefox and Internet …

Two days ago I wrote a post called: “New CommentLuv – Found Here Badge“. In the post I explained that CommentLuv can increase your traffic & readership and that’s also good for your pagerank.
Anyway, It’s time for a BIG list of blog which have the CommentLuv plugin installed. (Ok, The list isn’t that big yet, but I’m sure it will be!)In case you want to show your visitors that you’ve CommentLuv installed, then you can use the badge here below.
If you don’t have the plugin installed yet, click here to …

If you’ve left a comment on my site then you might have noticed that I use this plugin called: “CommentLuv“.
The CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment, this way you can encourage people to join in the discussion of your posts and give something back straight away.
With this pluging I like to encourage people to comment, joining in the discussions of my post and giving something back to the commentator straight …