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💎 Some real gems here from Andy Bell on what you can do with CSS right now that you might not be aware of yet. Masonry layout, the :is selector, logical #CSS functions for sizing, and more.
Also worth a look is Thomas Steiner showing how the color-scheme CSS property and the corresponding meta tag make it possible for a page to use the theme-specific defaults of the user agent stylesheet. 👨🎨
Coming soon to Newsletter Glue: Automated newsletters you can set up, test, and schedule in WordPress as well as Global Styles and Template Styles for multiple individual newsletters. Custom CSS will be available with both global and template styles.
At first glance, CSS seems straightforward, but Tim Severien dives into what makes CSS hard to master: “I worry that the way we think about CSS might affect how beginners perceive the language. If they are taught that CSS is easy, they might be discouraged from seeking help when they struggle or just blame the…
As I noted in my feature post on WordPress 3.8, the new WordPress build tools (using Grunt) and the port of the admin CSS to Sass make it much easier for WordPress core to make new admin themes. Well, with Admin Color Schemes, the heart of the admin theme compiler in WordPress core is duplicated,…
Geoff Graham has a helpful post on managing technical debt on CSS Tricks. Any project gets technical debt as it ages. My struggle is giving up and starting over on my own stuff; and that’s not really scalable for projects of any real size or importance.
Have you used the beta version of WordPress 4.9? I have. One of the new things is the file editor, which has been pretty fully overhauled. It has a lot of improvements. If we are to have a file editor at all, these are proper changes. I joked about WordPress with an IDE on Twitter,…
In this episode, Mark Westguard of WS Form joins Cory Miller to discuss OpenAI, the innovation we are already seeing, and what we can and should expect in the future when it comes to WordPress.
