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.
Chrome 144 added the ::search-text pseudo-element, which finally lets you style find-in-page highlights. Relative color syntax keeps matches readable on dark themes and saturated backgrounds.
Firefox Nightly has a flag for @custom-media, the at-rule that lets you alias a media query behind a name and reuse it. Notes on what it fixes, how Open Props packages ready-made queries, and how to write the syntax today with postcss-custom-media.
WordPress 7.0 turns the mobile menu overlay into a block-based template part, so a logo or a button goes in without CSS overrides. Here is what to test, plus the open argument about where the markup belongs in the HTML.
Twelve WordPress themes ranked by actual WordPress.com usage share in 2026, with notes on block architecture and performance, plus the enqueue trick that keeps block CSS off pages that do not need it.