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Styling checkboxes with the CSS checkmark pseudo-element

::checkmark styles the tick of native checkboxes, radios and selects without touching markup, which matters when WooCommerce owns the template. Here’s how I’d ship it, with a plain fallback first, @supports as the gate, and a plan for testing in Safari.

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Accessibility, Design, Front-end

CSS letter-spacing animation on a real WordPress site

The letter-spacing reveal trick going around is a nice piece of CSS, but the demos hide two costs: it relayouts text on every frame, and transparent text still gets read aloud by screen readers. This is the version I’d ship.

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Development, Front-end

Modern CSS centering: you probably don’t need those layout hacks

Most centering doesn’t need a flex or grid hack anymore. This post covers align-content on plain block elements, text-box trimming for text that actually looks centered, the safe keyword, and anchor-center for tooltips.

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Development, Front-end

CSS sibling-index() replaces your nth-child stagger hacks

Staggered animations used to mean a pile of nth-child rules or an SCSS loop. CSS sibling-index() and sibling-count() handle it in the stylesheet, however many items the grid has, with no JavaScript.

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Bug Fixing, Development, Front-end

Cross-document view transitions: the gotchas that break your UX

Cross-document view transitions give multi-page sites a native-app feel, but they fail silently. Here’s how to replace the deprecated meta tag, handle the 4-second timeout, and stop images from stretching mid-transition.

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Development, Front-end

Modern CSS updates: the power of nth-child(n of selector)

A look at recent Modern CSS updates for WordPress: the nth-child(n of selector) syntax, flying focus via the View Transition API, prefers-reduced-motion, and browser support in Chrome 148 and Safari 26.5.

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Development, E-commerce Development, Front-end

CSS discounted price calculation without bloated JavaScript

You don’t need a JavaScript bundle to calculate a discount. With the upgraded attr(), mod(), and round() CSS functions, you can do the math in the style engine, cut latency, and ship a lighter shop.

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Design, Development, Front-end

rotateY() and 3D CSS transforms, done right

Most rotateY() flip cards don’t actually flip, they just shrink and grow. Here’s how perspective, transform-style, and a proper 3D stage give you flip cards and carousels with real depth instead of a squashed 2D look.

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Development, Front-end

Using rotateX() for 3D CSS transforms that hold up

The rotateX() CSS function adds real 3D depth, but only when the parent has a perspective value. This covers the syntax, the perspective gotcha that flattens your rotation, and examples like 3D flip cards and unfolding accordions.

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Development, Front-end

Using the CSS rotate function without the jitter

A walk through the CSS rotate function: the syntax and angle units, why transform-origin trips people up, independent transform properties, and how to stop rotations from jittering on the main thread.

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