Jeff Starr

Seattle, Washington, United States
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Jeff Starr is a professional developer, designer, author, and publisher with over 15…

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Publications

  • WordPress Themes In Depth

    Perishable Press Books

    WordPress theme development brings together many aspects of web design and development. WordPress themes tap into the power of WordPress, enabling developers to build with proven features and advanced functionality. From your first steps of learning about the theme template all the way through testing and distributing your themes to market, WordPress Themes In Depth brings it all together with just the right balance of theory, code, and explanation.

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  • The Tao of WordPress

    Perishable Press

    The Tao of WordPress teaches how to use WP's built-in settings, plugins, and themes to build awesome WordPress-powered sites. Learn how to get the most out of WordPress by using it for what it is, effortlessly and intuitively through the Admin Area. Take the journey to unlock the power of WordPress and use it like a zen master to build anything you can imagine.

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  • .htaccess made easy

    Perishable Press

    Book (PDF and Print editions) on mastering the .htaccess file. Focuses on configuration, redirects, security, usability and more. htaccess made easy brings it all together and includes the latest techniques for maximizing traffic, optimizing performance, and securing your website. Site membership includes private forum access, template files, and lifetime updates.

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  • Digging into WordPress

    Perishable Press

    Book and blog co-authored with Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks. Available in both eBook and Print format, Digging into WordPress goes in-depth into WordPress with a fun, engaging style and practical techniques. The book is over 400 pages of pure WordPress awesome, and the site continues the adventure with ongoing tips, tricks, and tutorials. The book includes free updates and is currently on the 10th edition.

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    • Chris Coyier
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Projects

  • BBQ Pro

    - Present

    BBQ Pro helps keep your WordPress site safe and secure by blocking bad requests. This helps to conserve precious server resources like memory and bandwidth. BBQ Pro runs silently in the background, checking all incoming traffic and blocking any URI requests that contain nasty stuff like eval(, base64_, and other malicious nonsense.

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  • SES Pro

    - Present

    Manage your own email campaigns and newsletters with 100% shortcode-based, Ajax-powered signup forms. Add a full-featured double opt-in newsletter to any page in seconds. Send unlimited emails with NO monthly fees and NO restrictions. SES Pro ships with 10 predefined form styles that are fully customizable via live CSS editor, so you can fine-tune or roll your own.

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  • USP Pro

    - Present

    USP Pro is the premium version of the User Submitted Posts plugin for WordPress. It enables you to create and customize infinitely many forms and display them anywhere on your site. USP Pro gives you fine-grained control to build the perfect front-end forms. Easily create submission forms, registration forms, contact forms, forums, and everything in between.

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  • WP-Mix

    - Present

    WP-Mix is a flow of code, snippets, and tutorials to help with WordPress development and web design in general. Site built with xy.css (responsive liquid matrix) and WordPress.

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  • xyCSS

    - Present

    xy.css is a lightweight CSS template for building responsive liquid-grid designs. xy.css neutralizes rogue browser styles and brings horizontal and vertical rhythm via synergized grid system for both typography and structure. xy.css helps you create clean, device-neutral designs without cluttering markup with non-semantic class attributes. Designed for HTML5, xy.css brings together the best CSS techniques from around the Web and integrates them into a single, powerful stylesheet template.

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  • eChunks

    - Present

    eChunks is a plush gallery/chill site for found photos, graphics, and videos. Curated by 88teeth & Perishable. Fun project site, no more, no less.

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  • Digging into WordPress

    Digging into WordPress is a book and website focused on WordPress. It's over 400 pages focused on making the most of WordPress. Used in over 100 colleges and classrooms around the world.

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    • Chris Coyier
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  • Perishable Press

    - Present

    Publishing company and website packed full of tutorials and information on Web development, design, security, WordPress, and more. Quality content since 2005.

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Languages

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • German

    Limited working proficiency

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