Hey you great RSS subscribers! We simply soft-pushed a web site redesign and needed to present ya’ll the primary heads-up. A full write-up is coming Monday however listed below are the high-level particulars:
- Ghost Busting: As you may think, this web site has carried over loads of items over 19 years. I made a decision to excavate the theme and defintely discovered some ghosts to bust.
- Fashionable Dev Tooling: Significantly better than the 5-year workflow we had earlier than. Prettier, Styleint, GitHub Actions, auto cache-busting!
- Safety: I made a decision to ask Claude to assist me with a holistic audit. I prompted it to evaluate current WordPress safety launch notes and determine areas the place the theme could possibly be hardened to adjust to what WordPress is doing.
- Sass Rewrite: I’m happy as punch to see the general measurement of CSS drop within the course of. It went from 180 KB (31.7 KB) to 169 KB (24.6 KB zipped). Not vastly vital, however not not vital both.
- Design-ish System: Broad theme consistency! Semantic tokens for issues like colours, fonts, font sizes, reused values.
- Theme Toggle: The location has predominantly been darkish regardless of the content material being in opposition to a white background, so I handled issues as if a “darkish” mode already existed. The result’s a creamy gentle theme.
- Jawbreaker Texture: I’m calling it “Jawbreaker” for lack of a greater time period and since it jogs my memory of the jawbreaker sweet I liked as a child. You’ll discover it splattered all through the positioning.
- New Almanac Index: Now the web page is an actual index of the CSS options that will get you the place you want to go rapidly. Somebody someplace someday did some type of CSS periodic desk.
- New Guides Index: There’s a featured information, a widget of newly added and up to date guides, and a categorized grid of the all the pieces under that.
- Creator Pages: It’s a little bit change, actually. The fitting sidebar was moved to the left and the creator picture and bio moved in, permitting the articles to creep as much as the highest.
- WordPress Admin Kinds: Issues like fonts and textual content types now have minimal styling that displays the entrance finish.
The total write-up will dig deeper into these, plus present a side-by-side comparability with the earlier design. Look ahead to it Monday! I hope you could have a terrific weekend.
