Themes & plugins Advanced
Why sticky quietly dies — one overflow line on an ancestor
position: sticky throws no error when it fails. Check three things in order — a threshold, room in the parent, an ancestor's overflow — and the cause is…
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Themes & plugins
Choosing themes and plugins, vetting them, finding alternatives, and understanding their performance cost — what a wrong choice charges you later.
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Themes & plugins Advanced
Measure and vertical rhythm: body text that gets read
How many characters sit on a line, and how the gaps between elements stack, decide whether a long article gets finished. Hangul is wider, so the Latin character-count…
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.
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…
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
The form works, so why does no mail arrive?
The form is rarely the problem. The mail is being blocked at sending or filed as spam — and once you understand the structure, this is a solvable…
Themes & plugins Intro
Free or paid theme: what the money actually buys
What a paid theme actually buys is a year of updates and support — which is why the decision comes back around every twelve months.
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…
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…
Themes & plugins Practical
Taking the colour picker away from editors
Leave the picker open and in six months the site carries colours a shade off the brand. That is not the editor's fault — the system asked.
Themes & plugins Practical
Plugin count is a budget, not a feature list
The plugin ecosystem is WordPress's greatest strength. But each one you enable adds an item to check every month, and that budget is finite.
Themes & plugins Practical
Labels and errors: a placeholder is not a label
Text that vanishes the moment you type cannot be a label. Forms that hide labels and forms that signal errors with colour alone lose people in much the…