Manual regression testing was my bottleneck, so I automated it. This covers wp-env setup, Playwright with the WordPress test utils, and testing block variations and meta bindings without clicking through the editor.
Notes on using the CSS contrast() filter in WordPress themes: how the RGB math works, why it beats a black overlay on hero images, a 125% hover fix for washed out product cards, and where filters get expensive.
CSS has a hypot() function that does Pythagorean distance math and, unlike pow(), accepts units like px and rem. I cover what it returns, a cursor-proximity example using container style queries, and the edge cases worth knowing.
Fixed-height cards look tidy in a mockup and fall apart when an editor doubles the copy or a translation runs long. I go through what breaks, and how Flexbox and intrinsic sizing hold the same grid together without hard-coded heights.
Appending text to a container is the easy part. This post covers the scroll flag that stops snap-back, batching renders to keep layout shift down, ARIA live regions for screen readers, and cleaning up after a broken stream.
The CSS contrast-color() function returns black or white text for whatever background color a user picks. How the syntax works, why the @supports fallback still matters, and the cases it does not cover.
Streaming interfaces jump around and drag the scrollbar back to the bottom. What fixes it: tracking whether the user scrolled away, batching renders into the animation frame, and marking the container up as an ARIA log region.
The ::nth-letter selector still is not in any browser, and hand-wrapping every character in a span wrecks the DOM. A shim that rewrites the raw CSS into :nth-child and lets SplitText handle the markup and the ARIA.
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.