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How far the block editor gets you, and where it stops
Knowing what the built-in editor already does saves money before you buy a builder — and the signal that you need one arrives later than you think.
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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 Intro
What free covers, and what you should pay for
Compare feature tables and the paid tier always wins. The founder's criterion is not features but the weight of your data — what you lose if the tool…
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Do not choose a theme by how it looks
Every theme demo looks good. What decides whether it still works a year from now is maintenance history and speed — both checkable before you buy.
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Content decides your breakpoints, not device names
Breakpoints named after devices go stale every year. Widen a component slowly, note where it stops working, and that width is your breakpoint.
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Why 16px is the baseline for body text — and when it is not
16px is not a trend somebody picked; it is the default browsers and users already agreed on. Take it as the baseline — and know when Korean long-form…
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Deriving a full colour scale from one brand colour
One brand colour cannot draw an interface. Derive hover, pressed, tint and disabled states by rule and you stop picking new colours on every screen.
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Building a child theme: one header line and the load order
Two files is all it takes. Get the Template header line or the stylesheet load order wrong, though, and no amount of CSS will change the screen.
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Contrast: where grey body copy fails
Light grey body copy looks best in the mockup and reads worst on a real screen. Three threshold values let you judge it at the moment you pick…
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Mobile-first is a question of order, not taste
Starting narrow leaves you fewer decisions. Starting wide means deciding what to throw away at every step — and that decision never ends.
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Why 1.5 line-height is not enough for Korean body text
The web's default leading was calibrated for the Latin alphabet. Hangul packs more strokes into the same square and sits taller because of final consonants, so the same…
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What a design token actually is
A swatch on a mockup and a design token can hold the same value and still be different things. The difference is the name — and the name…
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Edit the parent theme and the next update erases it
A theme update replaces the whole folder — that is correct behaviour. Which is why your changes need to live somewhere it does not reach.