Social media buttons
Displaying too many social media buttons and links all over the place imho makes you look desperate and frankly kinda sad.
Web Dev + WordPress + Security
USP Pro: Unlimited front-end forms for user-submitted posts and more.
Thought Bucket
233 thoughts
Security scanner
Interesting and insightful domain security scanner. Could spend hours playing.
Spam attack
Seeing massive increases in spam and malicious attacks across the board. Nothing out of the ordinary, just a LOT more of it.
User is king
Content is king? No. The user is king.
Custom Avatars
Super useful post about making custom avatars in WordPress.
Bookstore progress
Making good progress on the new bookstore subdomain here at Perishable Press. Aiming for launch early Summer :)
Online Strategy
Playing the long game.
Weaponized Idiots
They have weaponized the idiots.
Never steal focus
Good software never steals focus from the user. Even during startup.
Post It Notes
After 10 years running my own business, I still manage schedules and tasks using old school post-it notes, sometimes simple sometimes very elaborate.
Pumping visitors full of ads
You know those sites, where you’re trying to just grab a quick bit of information but the page is shifting all over the place as it loads up 3 million advertisements.
WP domains for sale
Selling two of my top WordPress domains, wp-zen.com & zen-wp.com $300 for both. Aged 9 years. Drop a line if interested.
Typing vs pasting
Never force your users to type out a password (or any long string of characters) by blocking the paste function. Typing long strings leads to MORE errors than simple copy/paste.
Checking In
Checking in to anyone listening. Stay safe. Pay attention. Don’t get lazy.
Plesk looking whipped
What’s up with Plesk UI lately? Especially on Chrome it looks just awful, all kinds of broken. Come on Plesk devs get it together.
Power of prayer
Things get stressful, I try to pray. Not always easy, but always helps to relax and regain focus.
Welcome
Perishable Press is operated by Jeff Starr, a professional web developer and book author with two decades of experience.
Here you will find posts about web development, WordPress, security, and more »
Digging Into WordPress: Take your WordPress skills to the next level.
Thoughts
Launching my new plugin, Head Meta Pro 🚀 Complete meta tags for WordPress.
Migrating sites to a new server, so far so good. Please report any bugs, thank you.
Arc browser looked good but lost me at “account required”. No browsers do that.
Finishing up the pro version of Head Meta Data plugin, launch planned this month.
Finally finished my ultimate block list to stop AI bots :) Blocks over 400+ AI bots!
After 10 years working late at night, my schedule has changed. I am now a “morning person”, starting my day at 6am or earlier.