There is a push in the upcoming WordPress 6.6 release to make Gutenberg styles easier to override, even reducing the specificity down to zero. If I’m reading this correctly, it appears there may be some backwards compatibility issues.

Developers have manually styled the HTML checkbox to make it look like a switch. Now a new attribute for the checkbox is proposed that will render a checkbox as a switch. Interesting, but not ready for prime time.

Here is a nice design tutorial from Jeffrey Dalrymple. He shows how to create a subtle skeuomorphic (realistic 3d) effect that can be applied to buttons, cards, or other block elements. Elementor is used in the video, but the principles can be used with any builder.

In this article in Smashing Magazine, Temani Afif shows how to use CSS clip-path and math functions to create various CSS shapes.

Kevin Powell noticed a couple of big sites are already using CSS layers. He muses on this and when you pull the trigger on a new CSS feature — how much support is enough? (note this is audio only as it is from his podcast).

Here is an interesting development, MicroThemer now has deep integration with Gutenberg. Here is a video showing how it works.

Plugin developers – Are you working on the settings page for your plugin, or planning a refresh? Anh Tran took a look at the admin screens of a number of plugins and shared his favorite designs.

Block Theme development – Here is a short tutorial on using the Create Block Theme plugin.

Create Block Theme is a useful plugin that lets you save your customizations of a block theme as a child theme or as a new stand-alone block theme. A new version of the plugin was recently released and this article explores the new features.