Gutenberg 22.8 adds collaborator selection highlighting and presence fixes to real-time collaboration, opens the Connectors registry API, and lets you style button hover and focus states in Global Styles. AVIF uploads and an admin bar Command Palette trigger come along too.
The CSS corner-shape property paired with a scroll timeline, using superellipse() exponents instead of keywords, plus the isolation fix for mix-blend-mode breaking your stacking context.
WordPress 7.0 gives paragraphs native indentation with no custom CSS. How to opt a custom block in from block.json, choose between the subsequent and all selectors, and set the default in theme.json.
Scott Wilson came out of a liver transplant with an organ donation campaign to run, not time to debug a slider. Why he had his site built for him instead of assembling it himself.
Modals are interruptive by design. Four checks for deciding between a modal, a side drawer and a dedicated page, plus the tasks each one is actually good for.
Beta 5 is out and RC1 ships tomorrow, so the WordPress 7.0 feature set is settled. Notes on pattern overrides reaching custom blocks, viewport controls landing in core, and why per-block custom CSS worries me.
Telex is Automattic’s experimental tool for generating block themes from a prompt. What the output actually contains, the templates you have to ask for, and why I test every generated ZIP in Playground first.
WordPress 7.0 can hide a block per viewport, but the block still renders and its assets still download. Notes on the new metadata shape and the server-side check I use to handle both formats.
WordPress 7.0 lets you write CSS on a single block instance from the inspector. Here is how the hash-based scoped class is generated, where the rule is stored in the block markup, and how to opt a block out in block.json.
Chromium made the native select element styleable. This walks through appearance: base-select, the ::picker pseudo-element, sibling-index() for per-option maths, and the anchor positioning that makes a radial picker possible, without giving up keyboard support.