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If you work in CSS you may have heard of the CSS content-visibility property, which offers rendering performance benefits by skipping off-screen content. This article from Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin shows you how to leverage this new CSS property for faster initial load times, using the auto keyword. 💨
If you are interested in CSS and performance, then this brain dump from Harry Roberts is well worth your time. Harry covers the “Critical CSS” pattern, in which you identify all of the styles needed for Start Render (commonly the styles needed for everything above the fold), and then you inline them in <style> tags in the <head>…
Olivia Ng shares her favorite CSS guides, cheat sheets and tools on CodePen.
WordPress 6.2.2 is available now for update. This reintroduces shortcodes in Block Theme Templates in a more secure way.
Rich Tabor and WordPress Playground innovator Adam Zielinski discuss the capabilities and promise of WP Playground.
What do you want to see for future WordCamps? Share your ideas on the post.
Do you want to disable border settings for everyone but Administrators, and only for posts? See the Dev Blog.
What’s the fate of the plugin review team with the primary maintainer soon to retire? It appears to have a bright future with additional contributors and tooling.
Preethi Sam shares some techniques for generating creative background patterns using gradients, CSS shapes, and even emojis. 👍
We’re just one week away from WordPress 6.2. Have you tested it and read the field guide yet? If you write code for a plugin that is in the WordPress Plugins Repo, you’ll want to ensure the code is GPL compatible.
What does the future hold for WordPress themes, for theme developers and end users? Are we ready for a single master parent theme?
