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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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One clamp() instead of re-declaring sizes at every step
Re-declaring heading sizes at every breakpoint only adds maintenance. clamp() puts the minimum, the fluid middle and the maximum on one line and removes it.
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What keep-all gives Korean, and takes from other languages
One CSS line stops Korean words splitting mid-word. That same line, in Japanese or Chinese, means "there is nowhere to break" — and produces horizontal scrolling.
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A spacing scale, and what one exception costs
Eyeballing spacing puts 12, 13, 14 and 15 on the same screen. A scale makes the decision faster and tidies the layout for free.
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What belongs in the Customiser and what belongs in CSS
The same colour change can end up somewhere the next person finds it, or somewhere they never will. The criterion is discoverability, not taste.
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When you genuinely need a shop system
WooCommerce is a fine piece of software. It is also a great deal of machinery to maintain for a single one-off product. Start by naming what it actually…