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.
Gutenberg 22.5 brings custom CSS on individual block instances, aspect ratio control on wide and full alignments, and a List View that shows real item content. Notes on what each one changes day to day.
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.
Notes from the February 4 contributor meeting on the WordPress AI Client merge into 7.0: why OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are moving out to separate plugins, why the off switch is a constant rather than a filter, and what MCP adapters mean for the Abilities API.
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.
Fifteen real WordPress sites looked at as architecture rather than inspiration: which themes they run, how they handle search and subscriptions, and where the block editor quietly does the work a plugin usually gets credit for.
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.
I ran the WordPress.com AI engine at 21 site types, from portfolios to membership hubs, to see whether the blocks it generates survive a mobile viewport and a Core Web Vitals pass. Here is what ships as is, and the parts I still fix in functions.php.
A ReliCSS run sorts a stylesheet’s hacks into dead-browser fossils, fragile IE8 workarounds and leftover vendor prefixes. Here is how I read that output on WordPress sites, plus the case where :has() replaces the old checkbox hack.
z-index is not a global ranking. It only orders elements inside whatever stacking context they sit in. The folder analogy, the CSS properties that quietly create a new context, and how isolation: isolate frees a trapped modal.