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CSS Audit System

Status: Active Project: Website

What this is

Recurring audits of the site's CSS — catching conflicts, broken cascades, dead rules, font-weight inconsistencies, color-rule violations (no orange backgrounds), and bugs in rules that overlap between theme CSS, Kadence CSS, WPCode-injected CSS, and page-level inline CSS.

Notable passes

  • Added CSS Audit — Full Breakdown, Conflicts & Fixes (April 5-9) — full CSS conflict breakdown across the site, identified rules that were fighting each other
  • CSS Brace Fix Handoff + Audit System + Desktop Commander Bug Doc (April 9) — bug where unclosed CSS braces were cascading errors across many stylesheets; included the broader audit system handoff and a Desktop Commander bug doc
  • Sitewide Font-Size Fix + Emergency 500 Recovery (March 29-30) — emergency font-size sweep during a 500 error recovery
  • wp:html Layout Displacement Fix + Root Cause Hardening (April 3) — root-cause fix for wp:html blocks getting displaced by CSS affecting parent containers

Recurring issues

  • Orange background rule violations — brand rule is orange text accents only, never background; occasionally snuck back in via theme updates
  • Kadence vs WPCode CSS specificity fights — both loading at different points in the render chain, occasionally causing specificity to flip unpredictably
  • Unclosed braces — a single unclosed brace can cascade errors across an entire stylesheet; added to the audit checklist
  • wp:html blocks adapting to parent container CSS in unexpected ways

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