Themes & plugins Practical
Hunting horizontal overflow — the number will not find it
scrollWidth matches the viewport and yet the screen is visibly clipped. An ancestor absorbed the overflow — so measure element rectangles instead.
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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 Practical
What theme.json does: handing your palette to the block editor
theme.json is not a stylesheet, it is a channel. It hands your palette to the editing screen so editors choose from your system instead of a free colour…
Themes & plugins Practical
Beating theme styles without !important
You wrote the rule and nothing changed. The cause is usually order rather than specificity — and order is fixable without !important.
Themes & plugins Practical
Walking the site by keyboard: where the order breaks
Take your hand off the mouse and Tab through a page once; five minutes exposes most of it. Nearly always, the culprit is CSS having reordered the screen.
Themes & plugins Practical
When a grid track swells to fit its content — minmax(0, 1fr)
repeat(3, 1fr) does not promise three equal columns. One code block or unbroken string inside pushes its track wider, and the whole layout leaves the screen.
Themes & plugins Practical
Putting tokens into the theme with CSS custom properties
Declare the tokens in one :root block, have components reference nothing else, and the colour and spacing of the whole site move from a single file.
Themes & plugins Practical
Template overrides: the copy freezes the moment you make it
Copy a parent file into your child theme and yours wins. It also stops receiving the parent's fixes — you have taken on its maintenance.
Themes & plugins Practical
Taking payment in Korea: transfer, card gateway, or overseas
These are not substitutes for each other; they are separate paths with different requirements. Overseas payment in particular brings a currency problem you should not solve by converting.
Themes & plugins Practical
The three minutes before you press install
A plugin runs inside your site with the same privileges you have. So the criterion is not the feature but the trust — and trust is checkable before…
Themes & plugins Practical
Colours and fonts are not a per-page decision
Choosing a colour each time you build a page produces ten sites inside one. Putting them in one global place removes the problem entirely.
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You only need about five plugins to start
A plugin is not one feature — it is one maintenance liability. Install twenty at the start and you will never work out which one causes a problem.
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Never delete the focus ring: what outline: none removes
The default focus ring genuinely does not suit most designs. Delete it, though, and keyboard users lose their cursor entirely — the answer is to replace it, not…