Form Styling Is Moving Into theme.json: What Works Today and What 7.2 Adds
WordPress 6.9 quietly added textInput and select elements to theme.json, and 7.2 plans to put form styling in the Global Styles UI. What generates today, where …
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Popovers Without JavaScript in WordPress Block Themes
The HTML popover attribute and invoker commands now handle open, close, light dismiss, stacking and focus natively, and WordPress 6.9 and 7.1 allow them in cont…
Your Design Tokens Should Outlive Your CSS Framework
Tailwind Labs joined Shopify and nothing broke. That is exactly why it is the right moment to ask where your design tokens actually live, and to make framework …
aria-current: Marking the Current Page in Navigation
Most navs answer “where am I” in a class name, which nothing but the stylesheet can read. One attribute fixes it, and the URL matching underneath is…
The Page Specification We Gate Every Page With
Nineteen per-page items and eleven per-site ones, with a pass or fail rule and the commands to check them. The standard we block releases on, published in full.…
Why Your Logo Looks Thicker in Chrome
A 15px logo renders heavier in Chrome than Firefox, and it is not a bug. Partial IDCT scaling, what it discards, why design systems feel it most, and the format…
Five New CSS Properties Just Landed in WebKit
Safari Technology Preview 250 adds text-decoration-inset, white-space-trim, wrap-inside, content on ::marker and ruby-overhang spaces. Three have no MDN page ye…
How We Run brndle.com on Astro and Cloudflare Workers
A static Astro build, a 360-line Cloudflare Worker handling contact and newsletter forms with no PHP, WordPress kept as the editor, and the four failures that t…
7 of 11 Themes Failed Contrast. The Fix Could Not Live in PHP.
Adopting the host theme’s brand colour failed WCAG AA on 7 of 11 themes. PHP could not fix it because the colour only resolves in the browser. How we deri…
Logical Properties: Block Theme CSS That Survives RTL
Physical CSS properties break the moment your block theme meets an RTL locale. What writing-mode actually does, why margin-inline beats margin-left, and how to …
How to Audit and Optimize Block Theme Rendering for Sub-Second Load Times
A complete block theme rendering audit workflow: profiling block render times with Query Monitor, measuring DOM complexity, caching dynamic blocks, and validati…
How to Generate Critical CSS for Block Themes to Improve First Contentful Paint
A step-by-step guide to extracting, inlining, and automating critical CSS for WordPress block themes — eliminating render-blocking stylesheets and cutting First…