I tried explaining HTML and CSS to my five-year-old niece
My niece walked into the office and asked what I was typing. Explaining HTML as bricks and CSS as paint was harder than I expected, and it showed me where I had gotten sloppy in my own work.
Category: Development
Smooth scroll animations with CSS and no JS library
A WooCommerce homepage carousel was wrecking Core Web Vitals. Dropping the JS slider for CSS animation-timeline and view() cut the script weight and pulled the LCP score back into the green.
What the WordPress 6.9 release cycle means for your live site
A core update took a client’s checkout page down at 2 AM. Reading the release retrospectives and controlling minor auto-updates per environment is how I stopped that from happening again.
How core is fixing WordPress admin performance
WordPress 7.0 pulls View Transitions into core, and ticket #64066 raises preloading eagerness when a proxy cache is detected. Here is what that changes for admin speed, and why blanket prefetching pinned my CPU at 100%.
How I manage multiple client sites without the Friday night panic
A Friday night emergency on a site I had not touched in six months cost me two hours of MAMP wrangling. WordPress Studio blueprints and selective sync are what I use now to keep client environments consistent.
The 2026 WordPress major release schedule, and how to prepare
The 2026 proposal moves WordPress back to three majors a year, roughly one every four months, with one to three minors in between. Freezing a client site at 6.7 is what taught me why that cadence is easier to live with.
Is WordPress free? What a WordPress site actually costs
WordPress itself is free to download, but hosting, premium licenses and maintenance are not. Where the money actually goes once a site has to earn its keep.
Three major releases again: the 2026 WordPress release schedule
WordPress may go back to three major releases in 2026, roughly one every four months. What that faster cadence means for staging, testing and custom code.
WordPress MCP integration: what MCP Adapter v0.3.0 changes
Custom REST endpoints leave AI agents guessing. The MCP Adapter v0.3.0 turns registered WordPress abilities into tools an agent can discover, and logs the calls.
Fixing local WordPress dev workflows before they break staging
A dev on PHP 8.2 white-screened a client host still on 7.4. How standardized local environments, Blueprints and selective sync keep that from happening.