How WordPress 6.9 gives forms a theme.json makeover WordPress 6.9 introduces new form elements support via theme.json. In this walkthrough, learn how to use them and when to fall back to CSS.

Styling forms in theme.json is actually huge.

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Holy shit... they display none on the admin bar...

"Git? Never heard of her." - Previous developer probably

We've been fostering 4 kittens and their momma. Gonna miss these goobers

Interest piqued

I added WooCommerce to my hobby site to sell my book. I’ve made about $400, only trying to break even on printing costs. Now Jetpack Stats wants $100 of that per year to keep using it. *Deactivated.*

I love that the font size classes for the navigation are applied to each link, so you can't override them, because the order they are written in your theme.json font size is the order they get rendered inline.

The core/navigation block is still a complete nightmare.

Ah, so this is why Figma lowkey sucks these days.

Not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but I’ve been working with a lot of dynamic blocks lately. I usually start by scaffolding out the logic and markup in render.php until it starts to feel cluttered or hard to navigate, then I refactor into multiple files as needed.

oh no, time for full team PR reviews.

This will be a welcome addition!

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"The updated subscription pricing reflects the significant added AI value"

WordPress and the block editor in particular could’ve benefited from a proper Fields API earlier on. It would’ve helped separate content from layout more cleanly and offered better templating options… but here we are?!

Not the most elegant solution, but when I’ve made changes in the Site Editor, I’ve always exported the theme and overwritten the theme files in my repo. This mostly works with minimal issues.

I do find our overreliance on saving page layout, site layout, and content all in the database concerning.

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This is huge. 🙌
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I’ve yet to work with a web designer using Figma who consistently names and groups their layers, uses components properly, applies styles, or leverages any of the other features needed to produce dev ready designs...let alone something suitable for automatic slop site generation.

Just implemented one of my favorite web design features: when a lightbox displays an image smaller than its original size!

Not mentioned is they removed the corner swipe completely apparently. This is garbage. #oneui7

Hot Take: Full Stack Devs that don't understand semantic markup are not "Full Stack"

it's happening.

I was just speaking with a fellow developer about how your work has kept me more informed about Chrome than I have ever been. This is a huge loss for them.

Holding out for Skyblivion.

😔

phpBB forums. We had several spun up for "gamer clans" usually organizing Half-Life deathmatch events between clans.

26. Name your layers.

My usual setup is a repo per theme and custom plugin. I only version control WordPress itself for enterprise clients with more robust server setups.

Sound like a dem loser to me. 🖕🏼

It's all starting!!!

Glad they can finally join in 🙃