Snowfall Component
December 27, 2025
A nice component for adding snowfall to your website courtesy of Tobias Haas.
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Comparing ACSS 4 to ACSS 3
December 19, 2025
New demo highlighting the difference between ACSS 3 and ACSS 4.
ACSS 4 : 85% Lighter
December 2, 2025
Here is the rough comparison of Automatic CSS 3.3.6 and ACSS 4 Alpha 1.
Missing Ribbon
December 2, 2025
If you upgraded to the alpha 1 version of ACSS 4, you will notice a lot of things have changed, and some features temporarily disappeared and are scheduled to return…
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SureRank and Bricks Styling Conflict
If you have used any of my styling overrides to make Bricks more legible, and you installed SureRank, you may notice some oddities. Everything is huge. This is because SureRank resets the font size to 100% (16px base) in lieu of the 62.5% (10px base) that Bricks uses. Since Bricks…
Cimo – A Fresh Approach to Media Optimimization
Cimo is a lightweight media optimization plugin that processes images in the browser during upload, without relying on server resources or external APIs.
Moving from RankMath to SureRank
After seven years of using RankMath (I think I was the 30th download when it was released), I have made a change. After trying a variety of alternatives, the release of SureRank Premium and, more importantly, the LTD, I have decided that it is time for a change. While the…
Writing Tips Plugin
Creating a solution to help guide content creators.
Custom Details and Summary
Just a quick post about styling details+summary element in WordPress.
Displaying Theme and Plugin Versions
This is a for-fun addition that probably wouldn't apply to many websites unless versioning is a thing.
Adding Featured Image to the WordPress API
UPDATE: All this is great, but unnecessary. It turns out that all you need to do is pass a URL parameter in the WP API request _embed=1 and most of the data will be returned. I always thought it was odd that the featured image was not available... now I…
New Bricks Builder Post Conditions for Comment States
Fine-tune your Bricks post layouts with new conditions that distinguish between comments being disabled entirely and comments being closed.
Floating Images When Using ACSS Content Grid
I am working on a site that has a lot of old articles where the authors were enamored with alignright or alignleft (float) for images. In order to use float, the display needs to be block, so content-grid breaks the floated images' layout. What to do? Using Float without Display:Block…
Controlling Text Alignment
Generally speaking, more than a single line of text should not be center-aligned for improved readability (there are several caveats). With a quick assist from ChatGPT, I was able to put together a dynamic way of changing this. I needed this for an article layout on my Etch site, where…
