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Super pumped to finally launch Head Meta Pro! This is the premium/pro version of the free plugin hosted at WordPress.org, Head Meta Data. While the free version is great and serves many sites, there are more features that I wanted to add, like complete support for all the different page-views generated by WordPress. So with the free version, you can define one set of meta tags for the entire site. With the pro version, you can define unique sets of […]...

More than you might think, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) bots are crawling your site and scraping your content. They are collecting and using your data to train software like ChatGPT, OpenAI, DeepSeek, and thousands of other AI creations. Whether you or anyone approves of all this is not my concern for this post. The focus of this post is aimed at website owners who want to stop AI bots from crawling their web pages, as much as […]...

Pleased to announce a new update for my pet project, Wutsearch, a search launchpad that puts all of the best search engines on one page. So you can easily search your favorite engines with a few clicks. I use Wutsearch as my personal homepage on my local devices. It is lightweight, fully customizable, with no ads and is free forever. This year celebrates Wutsearch’s 5th year in service. Wutsearch is a launchpad with your choice of 19 search engines. ➡️ […]...

Good news! The 8G Firewall is updated to version 1.4. This latest update resolves numerous false positives and bugs that have been reported since version 1.3, when 8G was taken out of beta and officially launched last year. 8G Firewall offers lightweight, server-level protection against a wide range of malicious requests, bad bots, automated attacks, spam, and many other types of threats and nonsense. 8G is a lightweight (only 17KB) strong firewall that provides solid security and peace of mind. […]...

This year, Perishable Press celebrates 20 years on the World Wide Web. And, not counting the occasional minor bouts of site downtime, that’s 7,305 days, which is equivalent to 175,320 hours. Or 10,512,000 minutes. Or 631,139,040 seconds if you want to really be impressed. For me, two decades is a real milestone. But it’s not about the time duration, or even the monetary cost. It’s about the hours of human work that are poured into the site. Not just my […]...

For me, 2024 is all about simplifying workflow and removing any speed bumps in my routine. Next stop: Goodbye to my two long-lived Hotmail accounts. I’ve had these accounts since forever, set up way back in 1998. For the first few years, I used my Hotmail accounts for everything. Then I got into web development and learned how to host my own email. As time went on, I used the Hotmail accounts less and less. Until now they are mostly […]...

Quick tip that I want to keep for future reference: where/how to download the error logs for a site in Plesk. Normally in Plesk, to view a site’s error (and access) logs, you visit the Logs screen and select whichever logs, which then are displayed within the web page. So you can view all the log information within the Plesk UI. In general, the log viewer in Plesk works great and is configurable, etc. Shortcut: Jump directly to how to […]...