Working with custom content types in WordPress
Different ways of working with custom content types in WordPress, and the pros and cons of each.https://duncanstephen.net/working-with-custom-content-types-in-wordpress/
Working with custom content types in WordPress
Different ways of working with custom content types in WordPress, and the pros and cons of each.https://duncanstephen.net/working-with-custom-content-types-in-wordpress/
There’s an assumption baked into WordPress: That humans are the ones doing the building. Blocks exist because we needed a way to visually assemble pages. Drag this. Stack that. Tweak spacing. Nudge things until it looks right. It’s a design abstraction for human brains. But what happens when the thing doing the building… isn’t human? […]
Structured, semantic markup, you say?
https://www.pootlepress.com/2026/03/the-future-of-wordpress-after-blocks #WordPress #Gutenberg #SemanticMarkup #WebStandards #AgenticCommerce
There’s an assumption baked into WordPress: That humans are the ones doing the building. Blocks exist because we needed a way to visually assemble pages. Drag this. Stack that. Tweak spacing. Nudge things until it looks right. It’s a design abstraction for human brains. But what happens when the thing doing the building… isn’t human? […]
In Safari’s “reader mode” so many websites are confusing, esp newspapers, magazines & journals
Disable reader mode & see the problem: headings, blockquotes & image captions styled visually only, without basic semantic markup
wtf webdevs?
Essential #accessibility STARTS w #SemanticMarkup that designates what’s a heading, what’s a block quote, what’s an image caption…
Semantic #HTML is not new. Even #HTML5 is 16 YEARS old! Use the tools handed to you
/me stops shaking fist, gets off soapbox
Creating emphasis within text is valuable for getting a message across. It helps indicate to the reader that they should take note of particular words and phrases. Using emphasis aids in scanning the content for a person who is sighted, for exam...
A study looking at the prevalence of specific semantic HTML elements within a corpus would be ... interesting.
Does anyone know of one?
E.g., which elements out of, say, p, ul, ol, li, i, b, em, strong, a, h1 ... h6, blockquote, img, table, are most and least commonly found?