WordPress.com built its new AI Assistant directly into the block editor and Media Library. It edits blocks and generates images with Google’s Gemini models, though full layout control needs a Block Theme.
WordPress sites carry more digital weight than they need. This post covers dark-first themes, lighter image formats like AVIF, and trimming the “digital fat” that slows sites down and drains batteries.
Thomas Walichiewicz proposed a :near() selector so CSS can react when a pointer gets close to an element. It would replace the usual pointermove distance math, though the CSS Working Group is still weighing the fingerprinting risk.
WordPress 6.7 added PluginPreviewMenuItem, a Slot/Fill point in the editor Preview dropdown. This walks through enqueuing the assets, registering the menu item, and reading unsaved post data with useSelect for a social card preview.
WooCommerce 10.6 adds loading=”lazy” to the Product Image block by default, which hurts LCP when the image sits above the fold. The new woocommerce_product_image_loading_attr filter lets you force eager loading on the images that need it.
Telex can now take a Figma mockup or a napkin sketch as input, hand you a zip to refactor in VS Code, and accept it back for another AI pass. It also supports 7 languages and stopped breaking multi-byte output mid-stream.
A pyramidal hexagon grid used to need JavaScript and negative margins. Modern CSS does it with grid auto-placement, sibling-index() and some triangular-number math, plus a fallback for narrow screens.
Notes on breakpoints that fire too early, loading iframes with the details element instead of a JS library, and the Chrome 145 CSS additions worth knowing about.
The CSS @scope at-rule is Baseline supported, so you can scope styles to a DOM subtree without long BEM class names or a JS build step. Includes donut scoping with the lower boundary and the proximity rule that decides which scope wins.
Lily Burton moved from biochemistry into science journalism and used the WordPress AI website builder to put a portfolio online in sixty minutes. Why shipping the prototype beat building the perfect site, and how to adjust the generated layout afterwards.