WordPress
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Dynamic content in WordPress, without a custom block or a shortcode
WordPress calls it ‘binding dynamic data to block attributes.’ In plain terms: a block binding is a placeholder on a block. It shows live data at render time, and the text you typed stays as the fallback. Here is the whole idea, and the part the docs skip.
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Why a WordPress scheduled post won’t publish, even when cron is fine
A scheduled post that misses its slot isn’t proof that wp-cron is broken. WordPress publishes a scheduled post with exactly one disposable event, and there’s no fallback. Read from core, with a fix more robust than the popular plugins.
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Why your WordPress Query Loop renders as one column, not a grid
A Query Loop set to a grid that renders one stacked column isn’t broken. The grid control moved from the Query Loop to its Post Template child, and the old displayLayout grid value does nothing. Read from core, with the fix.
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For an icon next to a heading, reach for centering, not text-box-trim
text-box-trim, the CSS that went cross-browser this month, is the right tool for aligning text to an edge. An icon next to a heading is not that job, it is centering. Here is why, measured, and the tool for each.
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WordPress 7.1 lets you register icons. Then it deletes your strokes.
The 7.1 Icons API finally lets a plugin register its own SVG icons. Register a stroke-drawn set like Tabler or Feather and half of them arrive as solid black blobs. Here’s the sanitizer that does it, read from core, and the one property that decides which icons survive.
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The “unexpected or invalid content” error is a diff, not corruption
The scariest error in the block editor is just two versions of your markup disagreeing: the one in the database and the one the block’s save() would write today. Here’s the comparison, read from core, and how to stop causing it.
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WordPress 7.1 and theme.json’s growing source of truth
Two ordinary things always ejected me from theme.json into a stylesheet: a hover color and a mobile padding. WordPress 7.1 pulls both back in. Unevenly, but it pulls.
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WordPress’s Icon block ships 88 icons and no way to add yours (until 7.1)
Core’s Icon block has exactly 88 icons and a registry you can’t touch: a protected method, a manifest with no filter. I went looking for the workaround and found something better: the door opens in 7.1.
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The block editor doesn’t match your front end, and it’s not your stylesheet
Your theme’s CSS is loaded in the editor canvas and the editor still renders differently. The cause is core’s own canvas stylesheet beating your zero-specificity rules, and the fix is a bounded set of overrides.
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Block theme file edits not showing up? The database is winning (here’s the mechanism)
Edit a block theme’s template file and see nothing change? One Site Editor save created a database copy that beats your file on every load. The resolution order, read from core, and every way out.