Notes from the WordPress 7.0 product review meeting with Matt Mullenweg: a CSS-level admin refresh, a customizable dashboard, real-time co-editing over a pluggable transport, the AI Client and its settings UI, and PHP-only block registration.
A text vortex where every character animates on its own, built with CSS sibling-index(), sibling-count() and scroll-timeline. The only JavaScript left is the bit that splits the string into characters.
Conic gradients make a pie shape but leave screen readers with an empty box. This build keeps the data in the markup, places labels with cos() and sin(), and uses a few lines of JS for the slice offsets.
Mental health apps need more than clean code. This is the empathy-centred UX framework I use: progressive onboarding, low-stimulus interfaces, and a retention system that does not punish a missed day.
The contrast-color() function only works in Safari and Firefox so far, so dynamic text colors still need a workaround. Here is the OKLCH lightness trick I use in block themes and WooCommerce stores: one declaration, no JavaScript.
WordPress 7.0 makes the post editor always iframed, which breaks editor JavaScript that reaches for the global document. Also here: native viewport-based block visibility, per-instance custom CSS, and the Studio 1.7.0 CLI updates.
Chart libraries are heavy for four bars. Here is a CSS Grid bar chart that uses sibling-index() and attr() to read its values straight off the markup, plus the PHP helper I use to render it in WordPress.
Smashing Magazine’s February 2026 wallpapers collection, with the designs worth grabbing and a developer’s notes on shipping high-resolution images: srcset, lazy loading, and the mistakes that turn a wallpaper gallery into a slow page.
Which control to reach for once a dropdown of 500 product variations stops being usable: combobox, multiselect, listbox or dual listbox. With a Gutenberg ComboboxControl refactor and the keyboard focus rules a real combobox has to meet.
About 60 lines of Python turn a laptop webcam into a pointing device. Uses OpenCV and MediaPipe Hands for the 21 hand landmarks, PyAutoGUI to move the cursor, and a smoothing buffer to kill the jitter.