Modern CSS: Beyond the JavaScript Bloat in 2025
I recently sat down with a client whose WooCommerce site was practically wheezing. Every time a user hovered over a product gallery or tried to…
Tag: Block Styles
Stop Using JS to Fit Text: The New CSS text-grow
I remember a client project about three years ago where the designer insisted on a hero headline that hit the container edges perfectly on every…
Stop Guessing: How To Measure Feature Impact
I once had a client—a high-volume WooCommerce shop—who was convinced that adding a “Quick Reorder” button on the customer dashboard would skyrocket their repeat sales….
CSS Masonry Layout is Finally Real: Meet grid-lanes
I recently had a client come to me with a classic request: “I want my WooCommerce product gallery to look like Pinterest.” Simple enough, right?…
Why Web Component Architecture Took 30 Years to Arrive
I once took over a massive enterprise WooCommerce site that had been through four different development teams. The CSS file was nearly 30,000 lines long….
Explaining HTML and CSS to My 5-Year Old Niece: A Reality Check
I was sitting at my desk last Tuesday, halfway through a nasty WooCommerce checkout refactor, when my five-year-old niece wandered into the office. I had…
How To Master Smooth Scroll Animations With CSS
I got a ticket last week for a high-end WooCommerce store where the homepage carousel was absolutely tanking their Core Web Vitals. They were using…
WooCommerce 10.4 Update: Faster Mini-Carts and API Performance Boost
I recently worked with a client who had a massive WooCommerce store—thousands of SKUs and a high-traffic checkout. Every time a customer added something to…
Interactivity API: Extending Core Blocks Without the Bloat
I had a client the other day who was obsessed with a “word-flipping” effect they saw on some high-end SaaS homepage. You know the one—a…
Why WordPress Development is About to Break Your CSS
I had a client call last week. Total nightmare. They’d spent months manually overriding heading sizes using a pile of !important tags because the Gutenberg…