Migrating a GeneratePress Site to Brndle: Hooks You’ll Replace with Blade Views
GeneratePress’s real hook system, confirmed against the free theme’s own PHP source, mapped to Brndle’s Blade views and token-panel settings: what becomes a tok…
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Zero-JS by Default: What Happens to Interactivity When a Visitor Has JS Disabled
Brndle’s “~0KB JavaScript on content pages” claim, stress-tested against the real source of all six frontend scripts. Two genuinely break without JS (mobile nav…
Dark Mode Architecture: System Preference Detection vs the Manual Toggle
We traced Brndle’s real dark-mode source end to end: the server-rendered data-theme attribute, the CSS media query that handles system detection, the localStora…
JSON-LD Schema Emission in Brndle: FAQPage, Breadcrumbs, and What’s Still Manual
Brndle’s FAQ block emits FAQPage JSON-LD and nothing else does. Reading the real source: what the theme deliberately leaves to Yoast or Rank Math, and where the…
Keyboard-Testing the FAQ Block’s Accordion: Focus Order, aria-expanded, Escape
We pulled Brndle’s real faq.blade.php, confirmed it’s a native details/summary accordion with zero JavaScript, then drove it with a real keyboard. Tab order, En…
A Pre-Migration Checklist for Agencies: What to Freeze Before Switching a Client’s Theme
The step before the rebuild: a battle-tested pre-migration checklist for agencies covering content audit, technical audit, client communication, SEO preservatio…
8 Header Styles Compared: Sticky, Transparent, Glass, and When Each One Hurts LCP
Brndle’s 8 header styles, read from the theme’s own source: which ones are position:relative with zero backdrop-filter cost, which run unthrottled scroll listen…
The brndle/css_variables Hook: Injecting Design Tokens Beyond the Admin Panel
The real brndle/css_variables filter, confirmed from source: it filters the final minified CSS string, not an array, right before Settings::cssVariables() cache…
Vite 7 + HMR in a WordPress Theme: What Changed from webpack-Based Themes
What changes when a Sage 10 or @wordpress/scripts developer runs npm run dev on Brndle: Vite 7’s native-ESM dev server, true CSS HMR, and the laravel-vite-plugi…
Astra vs Blocksy vs Brndle: Customizer Controls, Container Layouts, or Tailwind Tokens
Astra’s WordPress Customizer, Blocksy’s container-based header builder, and Brndle’s REST API behind Tailwind tokens are three different places a theme’s design…
BuddyBoss vs Brndle: Why a Marketing-Site Theme Shouldn’t Try to Be a Community Platform
BuddyBoss is built to be a community platform, Brndle is built not to be one. The architectural case for keeping those two jobs in separate codebases, with Reig…
Extending Brndle’s 20 Native Blocks: Adding New Functionality That Matches the System
Registering a new Brndle block is additive; extending one of the 20 shipped ones isn’t. A real worked example, grounded in the actual pricing block source: addi…