Troubleshooting
WordPress Site Not Displaying Correctly on Mobile
Horizontal scrolling, tiny text and a broken menu each have a specific cause. Reproduce the problem in a device emulator, find the element that overflows, and fix the rule.
Tag
Styling WordPress without fighting the next theme update.
Troubleshooting
Horizontal scrolling, tiny text and a broken menu each have a specific cause. Reproduce the problem in a device emulator, find the element that overflows, and fix the rule.
Troubleshooting
The browser stops painting while it fetches stylesheets and head scripts. Load less CSS, defer scripts, and stop third-party tags from sitting in the critical path.
Troubleshooting
Layout shift comes from content that arrives after the page has started rendering. Reserve space for images, ads, embeds and fonts, and the metric fixes itself.
Block Themes
A working block theme needs four files. Build it from scratch, define the design system in theme.json, then let the Site Editor and the Create Block Theme plugin do the repetitive work.
WordPress Tutorials
HTML in a page, a tracking script in the header, PHP in a snippet plugin — three different jobs. Pasting the wrong kind of code in the wrong place is how sites go white.
WordPress Tutorials
Hide the toolbar for yourself in one checkbox, for everyone below a certain role in three lines of code, and remove the space it reserves so the layout does not shift.
Troubleshooting
A site rendering as plain text means the stylesheet request failed. Open the network tab, find the failing request, and fix the URL, the mixed-content block or the broken minified file.
Troubleshooting
A missing menu is usually an unassigned location, a cached page, or CSS hiding it at a certain width. Check assignment first, then markup, then styling.
Web Design
Test reflow, navigation, typography, images, forms, tables, touch targets, orientation and performance across content-driven breakpoints and real devices.
Web Design
Choose readable web fonts by testing real content, language coverage, weights, loading cost, line length and responsive behavior instead of pairing typefaces by trend.
Web Design
Build a practical interface palette from brand colors, neutral surfaces, semantic states and tested text contrast instead of collecting unrelated swatches.
Troubleshooting
First confirm WordPress saved the revision, then identify whether the stale version comes from browser, plugin, host, CDN, generated CSS or the wrong environment.