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PHP and WordPress news worth knowing, plus field notes on integrations, ecommerce and the bugs that take a while to find.
Firefox 159 shipped CSS scroll-driven animations, so all three browser engines now have them. Five scroll effects you can move off JavaScript, why they run smoother, and the gotchas to plan for.
Read article: Scroll animations without JavaScript, now in every browserRelease candidates are out and the feature set is frozen. Here’s what partial function application and clamp() mean for WordPress and WooCommerce code, and how to get ready.
Read more: PHP 8.6 is almost here: what to test before NovemberA plugin update tweaks one stylesheet and a page you never looked at falls apart. Here’s how screenshot diffing catches it before your client does.
Read more: Visual regression testing for WordPress: catch the change that broke the footerIntermittent checkout failures are the worst kind of bug: costly, rare and impossible to reproduce on demand. A field guide to finding them anyway.
Read more: Hunting a checkout bug that only happens sometimesRedesigns and domain moves are where years of SEO quietly disappear. A redirect-map checklist that keeps search engines, and visitors, landing in the right place.
Read more: Moving a website without losing your search rankingsMost integrations work on launch day. The trouble starts months later. Five failure modes I see constantly, and the boring fixes that prevent them.
Read more: Why integrations break when nobody’s watchingWooCommerce reports answer the questions WooCommerce thinks you have. How to get order data into Looker Studio so you can answer your own.
Read more: Getting WooCommerce sales data into a dashboard your team will actually openAfter a year of building AI skills and review agents for a web team, here’s an honest map of where it pays off and where it just makes noise.
Read more: Where AI actually saves a dev team time (and where it doesn’t)Pages built from dozens of tiny components look flexible and age badly. Why I’ve moved to section-level blocks, and which controls editors actually need.
Read more: Section blocks vs. tiny components: page builders editors can’t breakAn AI client in core, a refreshed admin, responsive block controls and a higher PHP floor. What to do about each before you click update.
Read more: WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”: what matters for business sites
