WordPress Plugin Review: WP About Author

Wordpress Plugin About Author

 

So I decided to write a review about a WordPress plugin I have used and I bet at least %50 of people who are about to read this post have searched for a WordPress About Author plugin because I have done my homework and learned a few SEO tricks. Anyways, I’m about to comment on this little plugin I found on the internet. It’s called “WP About Author” and it does the job. However, I had to do a lot of stuff to get it working and at the end I gave up on some stuff.

-What does this wordpress plugin do? This plugin is for those of you who want to have a small box under your posts which contains your name, a quick little biography, a picture of you, and some links to your email and social profiles. You have to enter all the information mentioned in your WordPress profile (in user’s section) and it will automatically show up in its place (well not really in its place.. read on and you’ll know why).

- Installing the plugin was super easy since wordpress does the job for you and you dont have to worry about a thing!

- Activating the plugin is also super easy since you just click on “Activate” link and it will do so!

- Getting the plugin to work though… Its a super confusing thing to do for most of users! Why? READ ON! (gosh why am I yelling lol)

- Here is what I did: I typed all the information in my user profile in WordPress and what I saw was a badly resized picture of mine grabbed from Gravatar along with a white box showing on the left side of the page. My bio was okay and didn’t look too bad. The social icons were supposed to show up one after another in one line but they didn’t. Instead they were each in a separate line as a new paragraph. Links to my social network profiles wouldn’t work properly and etc!

- Here is what I think: Anyways, I’m not saying that this plugin is bad and not suitable for you use. All I’m saying is that this WordPress plugin needs a lot of work to get it working. As a matter of fact, it happens to be the best ‘about author plugin’ for someone who knows how to fix all these problems all by himself/herself. So you need to know how to change html and css codes in order to fix these problems since the developer of this plugin certainly will not help you out in the support area. How do I know? Cause I have posted questions and he has not replied and the only person who is actively helping others to fix these problems is really me Electric Shock

Personal Goals

I recently read somewhere on the net about decision making and all. It is apparently helpful if you have a sheet of paper which all your goals and dreams are written on it as a numbered list. I think I should do something like that on my blog so I can track them online and see which one of these goals I have achieved and which ones I have not achieved and most importantly what were the reasons to success of them.

So I will divide this list into two parts of public and private just for sake of privacy. Sharing positive experiences and thoughts is always a good thing so why should I keep those to myself.

GOALS… Here I come! Start counting people.

Pascal Programming – Learning Proccess

I have to learn how to do Pascal programming this term and to be honest with you I’m kind of lazy to do so. However, I think I can manage this by being a little proactive.

“Proactive: Creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened” – Google

So I decided to read a pdf book which our prof (well… not really a prof yet) emailed us, take notes and then I can share my notes on my blog. But this time not as a pdf file or scanned documents and pages. This time it will be just like blogging. I will be writing posts about Pascal programming as little special notes. So stay tuned for those.

I want to boost my GPA from 83% to higher than 85%… using my strength in some courses which others might not be interested in them. Fingers crosses… Wish me luck!

One Night, Two Movies

So I was bored and I watched two movies tonight… First one was “Jack Reacher” and second one was “Zero Dark Thirty”. All I can say is … GARBAGE! :P

Jack Reacher was a total crap. This movie was just trying to make a museum of American history all the way. GT Mustang (classic muscle car) and blond girls with Tom Cruse shooting a random bad ass Siberian prisoner called the ZACK (more like the sack lol), pardon my french!

All you see in this movie is an idea of an unbreakable military policeman with his code of ethics. Hes sharp, smart, good looking, strong, can drive a “non-automatic” car (WOAH! lol) who beats bad guys and can get any girl at the bar but he doesn’t lmfao. He saves the world at the end by bringing “so called justice” to a bad bad bad Siberian prisoner lol. Enough of this already…

JReacher

Then i decided to watch another movie so I can get this crappy movie out of my mind so i picked a pure military movie which has a lot of intelligence agents in it and stuff. Its supposed to be showing a true story about the progress of agents locating O$@M@ and a sketchy mission of taking tango down lol.

So yea pretty much that was all except it had some uncomfortable realities in it. Movie was trying to show that Americans are very sensitive people and they care about each other (but only for each other and no one else…). This is where I disagree with the whole movie. I think for some reason the director or the write of this movie made some of these events on purpose so the outside world just try and see if they can hate the Americans. I have American friends and they are very nice people, caring, funny, and smart people just like all of us.

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Don’t get me wrong! There are non-caring, unfunny, dumb people everywhere in every country and in every nation and not just in America. I have seen a lot of them in Iran too. Even in Canada! YES I SAID IT lol I know Canadians are nice and all but sometimes being too nice (fake-nice) just kills me man lol. What I’m trying to say is that just because I didn’t like two movies I shouldn’t judge the whole nation/culture thing! I’m sure a lot of soldiers liked this movie.

Anyways, if you are into military or spy movies go ahead and watch this movie cause you are going to like it a bunch!

I think I should go now. Next post is gonna be interesting for some people.

Pce :)

Tehran, Norouz 1392

Happy Norouz and Happy New Year to all of you! Wish you all a successful, hopeful, wonderful, blabla new year :)

There are just too many things to write about. I have been away for a month now. I have tried to come here and write something just so my blog doesnt stay full of nothing but I was just too lazy. Many things took place during this time. Here is a list of these things:

1. I went to Zanjan (Iranian Province/City) with my uncle who works in my dad’s company to get a cheque for their construction project. The government’s buildings are just too shiny and clean for Iran. I find it very interesting that such ministries are not that efficient but they have a clean working space and all. They have their own choppers, flags, parking spaces, blabla here is a pic of their parking with their flags up lol.

Parking Lot

2. I will be heading home around 6:30 pm from university and that would be the busiest time of traffic. One of those days happened to be the openning day of a long a $ $ tunnle which connects Tehran’s east to its west. Anyways, You either know or dont know how crappy Tehran’s traffic is. I almost fell sleep behind wheels on that night. here is a pic of that heavy traffic.

Tehran's Traffic 1IMG_20130218_1819483. Yea I forgot about the snow. For some reason where ever I go (Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Tehran, Seattle, DOESNT MATTER WHERE!) suddenly sky decides to snow the $hiz out of me. Here is a pic of that in Tehran.

Tehran Snowing

4. My father and I went outside of Tehran City to visit this factory (they design and build steel structures of buildings, beams, columns and etc) and on my way there I saw this familiar view of a cement factory which I saw many times all around this city but it never felt so good to see one. CAUSE I HAVE NOT PLAYED DAYz (its a game) like 4EVA! lol man Im addicted to multi-player games! Here is a pic of that factory… not that its anything cool to see lmao

Cement Factory5. Last but not least, after the first day of Iranian New Year (Norouz 92) I decided to go for a walk around Milad Tower (or skyscraper or whatever you wanna call it). There is this park called Pardisan Park which the cityhall has managed to build all these walking routes n stuff. There are some bridges which connect to walking routs together from up top of highway roads. This highway goes to another part of the city. Here is pic.. have a look.

Tehran HighwayAnyways, I think I have made it up to you.. Ill be quiet now lol Peace and Happy Norouz! :P

Android Gets Google Input Tools (Transliterations)

Google Input Tools

I have been typing words, sentences, and huge essays on my computer for a long time now. However, all these typing was and is in English. My speed in typing is actually pretty good (don’t want to be cocky but its true). But again I need to type Farsi words and letters and I’m helpless. My speed of typing Farsi words is like a turtle trying to pick up a hot babe by playing beach volleyball.

Anyways, I use these tools to type Farsi words in English (which over here in Iran they call it Finglish or Pinglish) and the software (web application mostly) transforms it into Persian/Farsi words. First website who started giving this services was Behnevis. However, Google began to jump in and start its own branch of “Transliteration” software (that’s what Google named it anyway).

Behnevis has this extension for Microsoft Word software which allows you to type Farsi by typing words in English and of course it allows you to do the same online on its website. (find here: Behnevis.com)

Google used to give this service both online as a web application and also as a software for windows. This software could be installed on your computer and then you could switch language and just start typing Finglish. HOWEVER! They have recently updated their webpage and turned it into a bigger thing called “Google Input Tools”. Google Input Tools gives you this ability to install Google Transliteration on your Google Chrome, Android Phone, Android Tablet, and of course install it on your PC (PC = Windows computers/Personal Computers and not MAC).

 

Websites

  • www.behnevis.com
  • www.google.com/inputtools

End of Reading Break

Huh, who thought reading break would end this soon.. this late.. I dont know how it ended. I dont know if Im happy or sad. I should be sad but I dont feel sad since I had nothing better to do during the reading break. I enjoyed a few days of clean weather in Tehran. I took some photos from the last day of our final exams.

I chose my courses for this term. I was very stressed out during the registration since the stupid website wouldn’t let me go passed the login page. I dont know understand how Iran’s top university has such problems. It was a very stressful day that day. My registration time was 10 am, but I got in around 2 pm. Thats 4 hours difference! Everything is pretty much jammed up in Iran. Traffic, Weather, Economy, “SOCIAL SKILLS”, Office work, etc.

Let’s hope a day comes which we dont need to nag about things like that in our society. Oh yea btw! I need to take down a so-ci-al network link on my site. Apparently its against the rule of law to link your website to a so-ci-al network website in Iran. The law is in effect at this moment. :[

Erfan Final Notes

Here are my Erfan Notes taken in his class (all included but the second class which he talked about Philosophy and Sharia and etc.)

 

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Erfan Final Notes (80)

 

Good luck to you all.

-Kaveh.

English Vocabulary

Hey,

Im sorry, I was busy studying English myself. But I did manage to type some of the most important vocabulary meanings (or synonyms) in an excel document. This is the best I could do in 30 minutes since I didnt put a lot of time into studying really.

 

downloadEnglish Vocabulary (99)

 

Anyways, good luck. Peace homies… ;)

English Grammar Package (With Answers)

So here is the English Grammar Package with Answers included as I promised. Well not promised really… I was kind of forced to put it up here. Anyways, Thanks to one of my friends I got my hands on this package and scanned it for you guys with his permission. Again, this is not my answers since I have been absent for two sessions and my answers are incomplete. These answers belong to a friend of mine.

 

downloadEnglish Grammar Package (Answers Included) (129)

 

Also, I have finished typing all the words with their meanings (close meanings) in an excel document. However, I will be uploading that tomorrow.

Thanks, and good luck with the exams.