Gutenberg 22.9 lands background.gradient support so a gradient and a background image can coexist, adds an EmptyState component to wordpress/ui, and gives the experimental Forms block hidden input fields.
The Twenty Twenty-Seven core team added a Lead Mentor next to the usual dev leads. It reads like a soft change, but it is aimed at the contributor bottleneck that has been producing burnout and technical debt for years.
The CSS shape function replaces the SVG and clip-path hacks used for wavy dividers and blob shapes. How the curve commands and control points work, and why a fixed command count is what lets the browser animate between two shapes.
Native @mixin is under discussion, an SVG favicon can follow the user’s color scheme on its own, and object-view-box has been cropping images in Chrome since 2022. Notes on what each one replaces.
A decade of explaining why WordPress sites don’t feel like apps, and what 2026 changes: blocks described to an AI instead of scaffolded by hand, the Interactivity API handling state without page reloads, and theme.json holding the design system.
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.