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Development workflow Intro
add_action and add_filter write into the same registry. Only one thing separates them: a filter must return a value, and one that forgets silently nulls the thing it…
Themes & plugins Intro
Every child theme task starts with the same question: which file is drawing this screen? There is a way to confirm it instead of guessing.
Development workflow Intro
The three options differ less in convenience than in what they share with production. Once you know which differences matter to this project, the choice is quick.
SEO Intro
A contact form alone only catches the few who have already decided. To reach the many who are still weighing things up, you have to hand them something…
Working with AI Intro
A generated alt text describes the picture. A correct one describes the information that picture carries in this context. Those are often not the same thing.
SEO Intro
If the dashboard keeps growing but no decision ever changes, that dashboard is a cost rather than an asset. Choose metrics by what you would do differently if…
Performance optimization Intro
"A second of delay costs this much conversion" is a number from somebody else's site. Once you know the three routes from speed to money, you can measure…
SEO Intro
Overstate the differences and you spend effort where it changes nothing. The fundamentals are one set; what genuinely differs is the tooling and how results are laid out.
Development workflow Intro
Hand over twenty screens and the developer asks about the twenty-first. What lets them build the screens you never drew is a set of rules — and rules…
SEO Intro
There is a reason the post count grows while traffic does not: every post is fighting alone. The fix is not writing more, it is grouping what you…
Development workflow Intro
You cannot protect a page that is not on your list. Three inventories — pages, templates, top entry screens — settle both the scope and the schedule.
SEO Intro
"We are not in search" is not one problem. Each stage fails differently, and only by naming the stage do you get a request an engineer can act…
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Working with AI
Writing a CLAUDE.md — teaching an AI coding assistant your project
AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot do better work the more precisely they know your project. Here is a structure and a set of principles that hold up.
Working with AI
Prompting an AI for UI design — drafting with Claude and GPT
Asking an AI to "make a nice button" gets you a disappointing button. Structured prompts that carry constraints, references and a defined role get you the design you meant.
Themes & plugins
SCSS from the ground up — variables through module structure
The core syntax of SCSS (Sass) and what it solves that plain CSS cannot: variables, nesting, mixins, @use and module structure — organised around patterns you can use immediately.
Themes & plugins
Design tokens and theme colour systems — brand identity in SCSS variables
How to turn a colour palette from a pile of hex codes into a system that means something — semantic token structure and SCSS variable patterns, from a real project.
Performance optimization
Designing a responsive typography system — the science of readability
Hard-coded pixel font sizes are over. Type scales, fluid sizing with clamp(), Korean webfont optimisation and line-height ratios — building typography that reads well on any screen.
Development workflow
From Figma to SCSS — a designer-developer handoff guide
Minimising what gets lost between a Figma file and the code: extracting tokens, naming components, keeping the spacing system in sync — the whole workflow, step by step.