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Jeff Starr

Boss at Monzilla Media and Perishable Press Books

@specialk Here and now. joined Dec 2005

perishablepress.com Slack: @Jeff Starr

    Bio

    Professional web developer and book author with two decades of experience. Enjoys all aspects of web design and development, with focus on WordPress and security. Projects include shapeSpace starter theme and 8G Firewall. Books include Digging Into WordPress, The Tao of WordPress, and WordPress Themes In Depth. Writes dev tutorials at Perishable Press and DigWP.com. Sells premium WordPress plugins at Plugin-Planet.com. Always learning new things. Loves helping others succeed with WordPress.

    Interests

    Offline, Jeff enjoys hanging out with family and friends. His favorite pastimes include drawing, photography, listening to music, watching movies, and contemplating the deeper things of life.

    WordPress Origin Story

    Started working with WordPress back in 2005 and haven’t looked back 🙂

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    Current Job

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    Monzilla Media and Perishable Press Books

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

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    Contributions

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    July 2026
    Jul 03 Fri · 17:50
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    Posted a reply to Setting up user submitted posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi jimt4383, I hope you got this sorted. It’s been a while with no reply…
    Jul 01 Wed · 18:00
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    Posted a reply to Free BBQ blocks CiviCRM Ajax requests — breaks admin functionality, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi foreclosurepedia, I hope you got this sorted. It’s been a while with no reply…
    Jul 01 Wed · 17:56
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    Posted a reply to 403 Error for very specific site search string, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Glad to help. To allow any pattern (instead of blocking), use the free and simple…
    June 2026
    Jun 28 Sun · 20:29
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    Posted a reply to Bots do not seem to be decreasing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Yeah maybe, you would need to research further to find out, what's possible etc. It's…
    Jun 28 Sun · 18:52
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    Posted a reply to Bots do not seem to be decreasing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    "If unwanted bots follow robots.txt directives for Googlebot, doesn’t this plugin prove ineffective?" That's a…
    Jun 27 Sat · 20:07
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    Posted a reply to Bots do not seem to be decreasing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Btw most of what we are discussing here is explained in the plugin docs, the…
    Jun 27 Sat · 20:02
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    Posted a reply to Bots do not seem to be decreasing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    "Then what about deleting the robots.txt altogether?" Not recommended unless you really understand what you…
    Jun 27 Sat · 19:47
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    Posted a reply to Bots do not seem to be decreasing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    "you mean most bots ignore that part of the robots txt directives?" It depends on…
    Jun 25 Thu · 18:52
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    Posted a reply to Bots do not seem to be decreasing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Glad to help, and it's a great question. Basically: there are many types of bots…
    Jun 21 Sun · 19:32
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    Posted a reply to Free BBQ blocks CiviCRM Ajax requests — breaks admin functionality, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @foreclosurepedia, just wanted to follow up with this. It’s been a while with no…

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