Performance optimization Advanced
Auditing a theme: what it loads versus what it uses
Themes routinely ship assets for features you never use. Once you have the list, what can safely go and what cannot becomes obvious.
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WordPress guides for Designers
For designers who own the look and the experience: how theme choice, webfonts and image handling decide whether the design survives contact with the browser.
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Working with AI Practical
Before you put an AI-generated image on the web
Generating the image takes seconds. What comes after does not: matching tone across a set, getting the file weight under control, and deciding what you will claim the…
SEO Practical
Heading structure: two h1s blur page and index alike
Headings are a document's skeleton, not a type size. Once the size you picked and the level you assigned drift apart, the page loses its table of contents.
Themes & plugins Practical
Mobile navigation beyond the hamburger
The hamburger is the answer when there are many destinations. If three or four carry the traffic, showing them always beats hiding them.
Performance optimization Practical
The hidden cost of an embedded video
The player loads whether or not anyone presses play. A poster-first approach charges that cost only to the people who actually click.
Themes & plugins Advanced
Vendor tokens, your tokens, and one bridge file
Modern themes arrive with hundreds of their own tokens. Edit them and updates erase your work; ignore them and the screen splits into two systems. The answer is…
Performance optimization Advanced
Metric overrides: stopping the jump when the font lands
Text jumps when a webfont lands not because it was late, but because the fallback had different widths and heights. Match the two and the swap leaves the…
Themes & plugins Practical
What a page builder costs: convenience against portability
A builder does one thing very well, and in exchange your layout moves into the database. Where you draw the line decides whether that trade is bearable.
Themes & plugins Practical
Reduced motion: the content has to survive it
The reduced-motion setting comes from symptoms, not preference. And the bug where the page turns up blank for those users appears most often in code that was trying…
Performance optimization Practical
Where SVG belongs, and where it does not
Icons and diagrams need not be image files. Kept as vectors they need no size variants, and their colour can be driven from CSS.
Themes & plugins Practical
Tap targets — minimum size and spacing for fingers
A cursor is one pixel; a fingertip is not. How to grow the hit area without growing the visuals — and why hover-only affordances simply do not exist…
Performance optimization Practical
font-display: invisible text or shifting text
This property decides what happens in the few hundred milliseconds before a webfont lands. There are five values, but the real choice is between blank text and text…