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EmDash is an open-source content management system from Cloudflare, built in TypeScript on the Astro framework. Cloudflare introduced it as a spiritual successor to WordPress, and version 1.0 marked its first stable release. This article compares EmDash with WordPress based on the kind of site you...
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WordPress and Astro can both power a blog, portfolio, or business website, but they give you different starting points. WordPress includes a content management system with an editing dashboard, user accounts, and a media library. Astro is a web framework that lets developers build the front end and...
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You build the homepage first. Then an about page, then a contact page. By the third one, you have the rhythm of it: drop in a section, add your content, style it, publish. One page, one design. Then you get to the blog. The rules change without warning. You are not designing a page anymore. You are...
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Ask around right now whether AI is going to kill WordPress, and you’ll get wildly different answers depending on who you ask. Somewhere out there is a LinkedIn post you’ve probably already seen, arguing WordPress is basically dead — that nobody in their right mind would start a new...
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When you’re running a blog, the theme underneath it should do two things at once: get out of your way while you’re writing, and give you room to make the site look like yours instead of looking like a template. Starting a blog today is much different from it was a decade and a half ago. As...
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Theme builders give you visual control over the parts of your site that themes normally lock down: headers, footers, blog archives, product pages, 404s, and everything in between. Instead of editing PHP files, you control it all through drag-and-drop editing. Though I’ve never built a custom...
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Page builders changed what’s possible for non-developers in WordPress. Before they existed, customizing page layouts meant editing PHP templates and writing pages of CSS. Now, drag-and-drop interfaces let anyone build professional pages without touching code. I have used page builders across...
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Building an online store with WordPress means choosing a theme that can handle the demands of WooCommerce. This is not the same decision as picking a theme for a blog or brochure site. Ecommerce themes need to manage product catalogs, handle checkout flows, display dynamic pricing, and convert...
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A core concept in WordPress is the theme, and it is not possible to run a website without one. That’s why it is often the first decision that a WordPress user needs to make. Getting this decision wrong often means wasting time learning a system that you’ll probably never be satisfied...
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CSS Grid gives you two-dimensional control so you can place items exactly where they belong, instead of fighting stacks and columns. It’s like giving your page a simple map where you can drop elements into clear spots and let the grid handle the layout. In this post, you’ll learn how to use...
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Websites packed with content can quickly feel overwhelming. Carousels solve this by allowing you to display multiple pieces without cramming everything onto a single screen. People can browse at their own pace while you keep pages looking clean. We’ll show you how they work for websites,...
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Website animations meant slow load times and choppy playback, forcing you to choose between compressed GIFs that looked terrible or massive video files that sent visitors running. Lottie changed that dynamic. These tiny JSON-based motion graphics scale to any screen size without losing quality and...
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