Live Core Web Vitals Measurements
Core Web Vitals give developers and performance specialists insights into different facets of user experience. These core web vitals metrics can be measured in the wild and reflect real-world users'...
Custom Counter styles
Ready-made Counter Styles provides a collection of predefined counter styles you can just drop into a stylesheet. These pre-defined custom counters are great to work in international documents since...
Customizing Gutenberg Features from functions.php
Rather than defining settings in each individual component, you can define what core features the theme supports in the theme's functions.php, using add_theme_support. add_theme_support takes one or...
Web Share APIs
Sharing content from your web application takes two different APIs: Web Share makes the content shareable and the Web Share Target API makes your app eligible to receive shared data. Getting Started...
Removing specificity from a CSS rule with :where
One of the benefits of the :where pseudo selector is that it removes the specificity of the selector inside it. This becomes a powerful solution when we want to create base styles that we can override...
WordPress Widget Blocks
If you use WordPress as your CMS and choose to keep the existing theme structure, then the news is relevant to you. Otherwise, you can skip this post. Among other new, WordPress 5.8 introduces a...
Third Party search engines in self-hosted WordPress
WordPress doesn't really have a search engine built into the CMS. This may cause unexpected results and it may skew a user's search results. The first thing to look at is replacing WordPress's...
WordPress Must Use (MU) Plugins
While researching Custom Post Types I found a little-known technique to ensure plugins are installed and run regardless of user interaction. The idea is that the Must Use Plugins will be active by...
Adding CPT and Taxonomies to an existing theme
In the last post, we covered the technical part of creating Custom Post Types (CPTs) and Taxonomies. This post will cover integrating the CPT into a theme. We will also discuss issues regarding using...
WordPress Custom Post Type for Glossary Project
I've been playing with the idea of creating a technical glossary for referring to technical terms on my posts. After a lot of research I came back to a simple tool: WordPress custom post types...