Recruiters now expect designers to ship production code out of AI agents. Here is what that costs in practice: toggles no screen reader can see, XSS holes in generated forms, duplicated code, and engineers spending more time per pull request cleaning up after it.
A 15-minute session with no warning is a wall for anyone who needs longer to fill in a form. What WCAG 2.2.1 asks for, why the auth_cookie_expiration filter on its own is not enough, and how I handle warnings and auto-save.
Most visual UI state does not need JavaScript. This is the radio state machine: radio inputs plus :has() and :checked driving toggles, panels and swatches in WordPress and WooCommerce, without breaking keyboard or screen reader access.
Big-bang redesigns of legacy systems usually end in a blown budget and a broken database. What works instead: mapping dependencies, measuring the slow paths, and choosing a migration strategy that keeps production up.
How I stopped managing calendar range styling in JavaScript. The :nth-child(of) syntax plus the sibling combinator handles the highlight in CSS, leaving JS to do nothing but keep two checkboxes in sync.
Cascade layers, the :is() pseudo-class and selector doubling all settle specificity conflicts without !important. Plus the few cases, like utility classes and accessibility overrides, where !important is still the right call.
WordPress AI Plugin 0.7.0 adds content classification that can stick to your existing terms, context-aware meta descriptions, bulk alt text in the Media Library, and a filter for system instructions.
WordPress.com opened plugins and Global Styles to every paid plan, starting at Personal. Here is what the lower tiers actually give you, and why SFTP, WP-CLI and staging still sit behind the Business plan.
Smashing Magazine’s April 2026 wallpaper collection is out, calendars and all. I picked out a few, then got sidetracked by the asset side: dozens of resolutions per design, and how you would serve them in WordPress without hardcoding links.
A read through the CSS Olfactive API draft: the scent-profile property, the whf potency unit, the prefers-reduced-pungency query, and why the missing hardware and browser support leave nothing to test yet.