Figma to WordPress: How to Turn a Figma Design Into a Block Theme
Figma to WordPress for block themes: map Figma variables to theme.json tokens, components to patterns and template parts, and frames to templates. A workflow, n…
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A Shopify Design System: Sharing Tokens Between Shopify and WordPress Themes
A Shopify design system for a WordPress team: Polaris is for admin apps, theme settings hold storefront tokens, and one token file can feed both platforms.…
Screen-Reader Testing the Pricing Table Block: What VoiceOver and NVDA Announce
Brndle’s real pricing.blade.php mapped against HTML-AAM and WAI-ARIA 1.2: no table at all, a genuine role=radio toggle, and a Most Popular badge that reaches ze…
Reading and Writing Settings with Settings::get() and the brndle/v1/settings REST Endpoint
The complete Settings::get()/save() PHP API and the full brndle/v1/settings REST contract, confirmed from source: every route, the manage_options auth gate, and…
Import/Export Site Settings via the REST API: A Multi-Client Rollout Script
The real /settings/export and /settings/import REST routes, confirmed from Brndle’s source, plus a worked Node.js script that clones one client’s design tokens …
6 Footer Styles Compared: Big vs Minimal vs Stacked for Different Content Depths
Brndle’s 6 footer styles, read from the theme’s own source: which ones ship a fixed DOM regardless of site size, which scale directly with configured footer men…
Caching Plugins and the Acorn View Cache: Making WP Rocket or W3 Total Cache Play Nicely
WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, and WP Super Cache cache finished HTML, not Acorn’s compiled Blade views. The real two-layer explanation, how to tell which cache is …
A Client-Multisite Workflow with Brndle: One Admin-Panel Config, Many Sites
WordPress Multisite gives every site its own independent settings by default. We read Brndle’s source to confirm it adds no network-aware code, then built two r…
WooCommerce on Brndle: Which Templates Are Blade, Which Are Still WooCommerce’s Own
An honest, source-code check of Brndle’s WooCommerce compatibility: a real but narrow PHP integration, confirmed absent template overrides, and the open questio…
SEO Plugin Stack-Up: Yoast vs Rank Math vs Brndle’s Own JSON-LD, What Overlaps
Yoast and Rank Math each build a full schema graph by default. Brndle emits exactly one type, FAQPage. Here’s where all three can collide and the decision frame…
What Is Tailwind CSS? A Plain Guide for People Building WordPress Themes
What is Tailwind CSS? A plain explainer for WordPress theme builders: utility classes, v4 setup, the @theme block, Preflight and the tradeoffs, from tailwindcss…
Atomic Design in a WordPress Block Theme: From Tokens to Templates
Atomic design maps cleanly onto a block theme: tokens in theme.json, atoms as styled core blocks, organisms as patterns and template parts, templates as files, …