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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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Themes & plugins Practical
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…
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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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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.