Posts tagged: layout

Master CSS Grid with practical examples for WordPress block themes: two-column post grids, magazine layouts, and responsive card grids with no media queries.

Use the CSS clip-path property to create diagonal sections, hexagon avatars, and reveal animations in WordPress themes without images or SVG files.

Use CSS container queries to style WordPress components based on their parent container width instead of the viewport with @container rules.

Use CSS keyframe animations to create fade-in entrances, loading spinners, and skeleton screens without JavaScript in WordPress themes.

Use CSS position sticky for headers, sidebars and table headers without JavaScript, and fix the most common reasons it stops working.

Define CSS variables for colours, spacing and fonts at :root and reference them throughout your WordPress theme stylesheet.

CSS Grid is the most powerful layout system ever added to the CSS specification, and for WordPress theme developers who previously relied on float-based layouts or Bootstrap’s 12-column grid it represents a fundamental shift in how page structure is built. Bootstrap’s grid system works well for simple equal-width column layouts but requires nested rows, offset…

Centering content inside a container is one of the most frequently performed tasks in CSS, and for most of the web’s history it was also one of the most frustrating. Horizontally centering a block element with margin: auto worked reliably once developers learned that the element needed an explicit width, but vertical centering required a…

A layout looks perfect on localhost but is broken on the staging or production server. The HTML source looks valid. Git is in sync. The culprit is often invisible: a content editor copied text from another website and pasted hidden HTML tags — <div> wrappers, inline styles, or empty <p> elements — directly into an…