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Why Your Custom Gutenberg Block Fails on Theme Switch

If your custom Gutenberg block looks perfect on one theme and breaks on another, the problem is usually not the block itself. The problem is that the block was built like it belongs to the theme. In WordPress, that is a risky setup. A theme can change its CSS, its layout rules, its template wrappers, […]

Stop Writing WordPress CSS. Start Writing Tokens.

For many years, the standard way to build a WordPress site was to write a lot of custom CSS. Developers would open a stylesheet and write rules for colors, font sizes, and margins. If a button needed to be blue, they would find the hex code for blue and paste it into the code. While […]

How to Build a WordPress Design System That Survives Client Changes

Designing a website for a client is often a happy process at the start. You pick the perfect colors. you choose the right fonts. You create a layout that looks clean and professional. But then the client takes over. Or perhaps a second developer joins the project. Soon, the clean design starts to fall apart. […]

What wpTruss Installs on Every Site and Why

For a long time, building a website with WordPress meant making a lot of small choices that were hard to change later. If you wanted to change a color or a font size, you often had to look through thousands of lines of code. This is because most WordPress themes keep their design rules inside […]

How Design Tokens Work in CSS

If you’ve spent more than five minutes in the WordPress ecosystem lately, you’ve probably heard the term Design Tokens. It sounds like high-level enterprise architect talk, but for those of us building client sites every day, it is actually the “missing link” that stops our CSS from becoming a mess. In this guide, we’re going to […]