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Plank @plank.co · 15d

Hey, Canadian WordPress community! 📣 Plank is proud to be attending and sponsoring WordCamp Canada 2025 in Ottawa. Learning, connecting, and community - it all kicks off on October 15. See you there! 👋 @wordcampcanada.bsky.social #WordCampCanada #WCEH2025

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Plank @plank.co · 22d

Websites aren’t just for people anymore. They’re for their AI agents, too. At Plank, we’re designing fast, accessible, structured experiences for both. Welcome to the User Agent Interface. Dive into our latest blog to learn more!

Read now: bit.ly/4pxSpJ6

The Rise of the User Agent Interface (UAI) — Plank

Building websites for both humans and their AI agents For more than 30 years, the web has been built around one assumption: a human will open a browser, look at a page, and decide what to do next. Tha...

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Plank Dev @plank.dev · 29d

Seems like this would be super useful for defining different shades.

"oklch is a newer color model that is designed to be perceptually uniform. This means that colors are much more accurate in terms of how humans perceive them and it makes working with them much easier."

What are OKLCH colors?

Article about the OKLCH color model.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · Sep 10

Thanks for coming to my talk at @smashingconf.com, everyone! It was a joy and an honour to be invited – and I hope it was valuable! 🤗💚 Here are the slides: noti.st/matthiasott/... #smashingconf

Painting With the Web by Matthias Ott

Today’s Web is more complex, unpredictable, dynamic, and powerful than ever. Yet, 25 years after “A Dao of Web Design” we still approach building for the Web with a mindset of control, using linear wo...

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Cold Iron Chef @coldironchef.bsky.social · Aug 28

I recently dove into the world of #OpenCart . I'm not fond of the ecosystem. Unlike the #wordpress community that I am used to, it is very unwelcoming. Despite it being an #opensource project, there are very few free extensions availible. Here is an extension that I created for practice. Enjoy.

GitHub - cgarofalo/opencart-top-rated-products: An OpenCart 4.1 module to add Top Rated products.

An OpenCart 4.1 module to add Top Rated products. Contribute to cgarofalo/opencart-top-rated-products development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Plank Dev @plank.dev · Aug 28

We registered for #WPA11yDay, virtual 24-hour conference on WordPress accessibility taking place October 15-16. Tickets are free, donations accepted #WPAD2025 #WordPress #a11y

WordPress Accessibility Day 2025 - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025

WordPress Accessibility Day is a free 24-hour global event dedicated to addressing website accessibility in WordPress. October 15-16, 2025.

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Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social · Jul 27

We're happy to finally unveil the full schedule for the upcoming Inclusive Design 24 #id24 24 hour online event on the 25 September 2025 inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ #a11y #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · Aug 7

If you're new to CSS, one of the best ways to make your life easier is to take advantage of all the CSS debugging features in your devtools.

To help, I teamed up with @amitsheen.bsky.social to create a free, 5-part beginner course on getting started with them: devtoolsforbeginners.kevinpowell.co

DevTools for CSS Developers - Free 5 part course

devtoolsforbeginners.kevinpowell.co

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Remkus de Vries @remkusdevries.com · Jul 21

Can’t express how much of a fan I am of all things WP CLI / Bash, so Austin Ginder sharing years of experience with WordPress bash scripts into a new standalone CLI: CaptainCore Do is cool! It’s 100% open source, MIT licensed, and built to streamline WP site management from the terminal.

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Travis Street @travisstreet.com · Jul 20

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Bramus @bram.us · Jul 11

Ooh, my Chrome DevTools extension for debugging Scroll-Driven Animations is approaching 3000 users …

- Live Minimap (!)
- ScrollTimeline and ViewTimeline support
- CSS and WAAPI SDAs supported
- Plays nice with `position: sticky`
- Visualize and edit the animation-ranges

👉 brm.us/sda-debugger

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GSAP @gsap-greensock.bsky.social · Jul 14

💚 Site of the Day - Plank - Digital Storytelling @plank.co

(nice to be able to tag someone over here on bluesky!)

⚙️ ScrollTrigger Flip SplitText Webflow
site → storytelling.plank.co
showcase → gsap.com/showcase

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Matt Round @mattround.com · Jul 9

This is INCREDIBLE; the Macs alongside the text aren't showing screenshots, it's booting emulators so you interact with what's being written about, and even includes the NeXT aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

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Plank Dev @plank.dev · Jun 27

Rockin' it with pixels — code or craft ❤️ @coldironchef.bsky.social

Cold Iron Chef @coldironchef.bsky.social · Jun 27

Framed this guy. Pattern by Max Pigeon (Pigeoncoopdesigns.com). #crossstitch

Framed cross stitch of a blue jay sitting on a branch with yellow leaves.

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · Jun 27

When I got involved with Front End North, one of the things I wanted to achieve was an affordable ticket price.

My inspiration was WordCamp London, which priced its tickets so that the whole community could come - not just developers, but testers, designers and writers too.

Front End North @frontendnorth.bsky.social · Jun 13

📢 Thanks to the generosity of local company @hiveit.co.uk and a few lovely individuals we are now able to offer a small number of diversity tickets for this year’s Front End North conference in Sheffield on 10th July.

See frontendnorth.com/blog/2025/06... for full details.

Apply for a diversity ticket for Front End North | Front End North Conference

Front End North is pleased to offer a small number of diversity tickets for this year’s conference

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Plank @plank.co · Jun 18

New to the blog: Our Top 10 Tips for working smarter, not harder, in the WordPress CMS! Get unstuck and build with confidence today.

👉 bit.ly/4kO2fDZ

#WordPress #CMS #WebDesignAgency

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jun 13

The Internet Archive has rolled out an extremely effective new tool for searching for old Geocities GIFs.

I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all

gifcities.org

GifCities

gifcities.org

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Vale @vale.rocks · Jun 5

People print websites, so I wrote an article over on @piccalil.li about how to make sure they don't feel the need to pull out all their hair while printing yours.

Decimate a rainforest, spend a fortune on some new ink cartridges, unjam the mechanism, print off the article, and give it a read.

Piccalilli @piccalil.li · Jun 5

Declan Chidlow takes us on a really interesting tour of the often, under-reported world of print stylesheets, how to use them and also how to debug them.

piccalil.li/blog/printin...

Printing the web: making webpages look good on paper

Declan Chidlow takes us on a really interesting tour of the often, under-reported world of print stylesheets, how to use them and also how to debug them.

piccalil.li

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Plank Dev @plank.dev · Jun 4

"Optimising WP_Query isn’t just about writing fast queries — it’s about writing efficient queries" 💯 #wordpress

Enhancing WP_Query Performance in WordPress - Spacedmonkey

WP_Query is a powerful tool for fetching posts in WordPress. However, if you don’t carefully configure your queries, they can quickly become inefficient, particularly on larger sites. Whether you’re w...

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Smashing Magazine @smashingmagazine.com · Jun 3

✨ Designing for neurodiversity means recognizing that people aren’t edge cases but individuals with varied ways of thinking and navigating the web. So, how can we create more inclusive experiences that work better for everyone? Let’s find out: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/desi...

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Plank Dev @plank.dev · May 30

Plank was founded in 1998, so this is a little trip down memory lane 💞

The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen

With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerged. David Siegel advocated for 'hacks', Jakob Nielsen kept it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combined flair with usability.

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Matija Marohnić @silvenon.com · May 20

Also, run ESLint with --report-unused-disable-directives to get notified of obsolete eslint-ignore comments.

Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · May 19

Lil’ TypeScript tip: Instead of using `@ts-ignore` for stuff you don’t feel like fixing rn, use `@ts-expect-error`.

When you do fix the issue, `@ts-expect-error` will *itself* become an error (which you can fix by deleting the comment).

That way, you avoid stale ignores that aren’t needed anymore.

Screenshot of code showing a "@ts-expect-error" comment with a red underline. A label reads "I fixed the issue, and now the TS compiler will let me know to remove this flag"

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WordPress @wordpress.org · May 27

🎉 It’s WordPress’ 22nd birthday! 🎉

On May 27, 2003, a small project to simplify publishing turned into a global movement for the open web. Today, WordPress powers over 43% of the internet—and none of it would be possible without you.

💙 Thank you for being part of this story.

#WP22 #WordPress

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · May 15

Have you ever scanned a dirty or crumpled up QR code, *certain* it wouldn't work, and then it instantly does?

They're built to be really resilient! Here's a guide I put together, full of interactive visuals to show the design choices in the QR spec.

perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-qr-codes-work

How The Heck Do QR Codes Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

Interactively dive into the layout and encoding of QR codes

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CSS-Tricks* @css-tricks.bsky.social · May 16

The Email Markup Consortium released its 2025 study on the accessibility in HTML emails, and the TL;DR is not totally dissimilar from what we heard from WebAIM’s annual web report.

css-tricks.com/html-email-a...

HTML Email Accessibility Report 2025 | CSS-Tricks

Some weekend reading on the heels of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAADM), which took place yesterday. The Email Markup Consortium (EMC) released its

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