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.
Conic gradients make a pie shape but leave screen readers with an empty box. This build keeps the data in the markup, places labels with cos() and sin(), and uses a few lines of JS for the slice offsets.
Automattic shipped a developer preview of a Claude Cowork plugin and a set of Skills that build block themes in WordPress Studio. Here is what the workflow does, where it breaks, and why the theme.json output matters.
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.