• Do you ever have one of those days where the universe is trying to tell you something very specific? My work day started with my catching up on Twitter instead of actually working, per usual. Chris Weigman had just tweeted out a link to his excellent post entitled, “Write Because You Love To Write“. It’s…

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  • Ephemera Best Practices for Fonts Gap properties Logoipsum (h/t @briangardner) The Art of Doing Lucide Icon Font Be the Browser’s Mentor Not Its Micromanager Let’s Talk About Web Components Everything Developers Must Know About Figma Do you really understand CSS radial-gradients?

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  • The SDM Show Episode 273: Talking About Modern WordPress

    Have you ever wanted to hear Tom Finley just talk about the regular WordPress stuff? Probably not — and I wouldn’t blame you – contrary to popular belief I’m actually not *that* fond of my own voice.

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  • WordPress Blocks + Custom & Variable Fonts

    Variable fonts are by turns really fun and really difficult to wrap one’s head around when it comes to using them on the web. Variable fonts are incredibly useful when designed and optimized to be contained in a single, compact file because they give you a broad typographical palette to work from with significantly smaller…

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  • Racism is a Weed

    Racism is a Weed

    If we let racism slide, we don’t get to use phrases like “this isn’t us, this doesn’t represent the WordPress community”. Racism unchecked means it IS US.

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  • WordPress Invalid JSON Error

    Recently I ran into a particular error on the production version of prufcreative.com: At first this issue seemed like a new version of the dreaded WordPress white screen of death. However, it turns out there’s apparently a server-level rule on WPEngine sites, with Global Edge Security enabled, that prevents some Gutenberg blocks from being saved,…

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  • WordPress Roundup, March 2022

    Aino Themes from Elma Studio One of the cooler WP FSE themes currently out there that I’ve recently comes across is Aino Blocks. Hat tip to the inimitable Nick Diego, who himself continues to be a force in the WordPress sphere. Aino is from Elma Studio and employs some serious Gutenberg magic to ensure you’re…

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  • Social Image Banners

    Have you ever wondered what these fancy things are called?☝️ There’s a pretty big deficit around a common naming convention, but most people are calling them “social banners”, “social sharing images”, “Open Graph images”, or some variation of the three. Social banners are certainly not uncommon these days, especially if you’re a frequent visitor of…

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