George Stephanis

Michael Arestad

<p>Hugh is a social color experiment for WordPress. Add the Hugh widget to any sidebar and visitors to your site can pick a color — background, text, the whole page — and broadcast it to everyone else viewing the site at the same time.</p>
<p><strong>How it works:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>A visitor opens the color picker in the Hugh widget, chooses a hex color, and optionally leaves a short note.</li>
<li>Hugh pushes that color via the REST API and stores it (up to 100 recent entries).</li>
<li>The page background and text color transition smoothly to the new color for all active visitors.</li>
<li>A row of color swatches shows the history of recent choices — click any swatch to jump back to that color.</li>
</ol>
<p>It’s part toy, part social experiment: can your visitors agree on a color, or will it descend into a color battle?</p>
<p><strong>Technical details:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Colors are stored via the WP object cache when an external cache (Memcached, Redis) is available, making it fast and ephemeral. Without an external cache it falls back to a WP option for persistence.</li>
<li>Color history is capped at 100 entries, sorted by timestamp.</li>
<li>REST endpoints at <code>hugh/v1/colors</code> (GET) and <code>hugh/v1/colors/add</code> (POST) are public and unauthenticated by design — this is intentional for the live-sharing mechanic.</li>
<li>The <code>hugh_css</code> filter lets themes register custom CSS overrides. Twenty Seventeen support is built in; other themes can hook in via <code>add_filter( 'hugh_css', ... )</code>.</li>
<li>Colors are rendered as smooth CSS transitions so the page doesn’t flash when a new color arrives.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Hugh works best on sites with an external object cache. Without one, colors are persisted to the database and shared state may lag under concurrent visitors.</p>


Hugh

Hugh is your personal color consultant. However, Hugh also easily gives in to peer pressure.

WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas

<h4>Plugin’s purpose</h4>
<p>This plugin fixes styling issues introduced in WordPress 5.9.</p>
<h4>👍 When to use this plugin</h4>
<ul>
<li>✅ Your WordPress is of version 5.9 or newer</li>
<li>✅ You are using a theme that supports block editor (Gutenberg) features such as preset font sizes and color palette</li>
<li>✅ Your theme does not support <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/josephine/" rel="ugc">full site editing (FSE) feature</a> (from <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/38252" rel="nofollow ugc">conversation about reported issues</a> it seems they affect Gutenberg-ready themes only and FSE themes should be fine)</li>
<li>✅ You experience font size or color issues on your website after WordPress 5.9 update</li>
<li>✅ Your theme has not been updated to fix these issues</li>
</ul>
<h4>✋ When NOT to use this plugin</h4>
<ul>
<li>You are not using WordPress 5.9 or newer</li>
<li>Your theme was updated and is fixing the issues</li>
<li>Your theme does not support block editor features (such as preset color palette or font sizes)</li>
<li>Your theme is <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/josephine/" rel="ugc">full site editing (FSE) ready</a></li>
<li>You don’t experience any font size or color issues on your website after updating to WordPress 5.9</li>
</ul>
<h4>Technical info</h4>
<p>WordPress 5.9 started applying <code>!important</code> rule and is setting up CSS properties (CSS variables) within <code>body</code> selector in its global styles code. This rises the global styles specificity and may override styles coming from themes and plugins. (For more info about this change check <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/08/updates-for-settings-styles-and-theme-json/#changes-to-the-global-stylesheet" rel="nofollow ugc">“Updates for Settings, Styles, and theme.json” article</a>.)</p>
<p><strong>Global Styles Mods</strong> plugin lowers the specificity of WordPress 5.9 global CSS styles by removing <code>!important</code> rules and changing <code>body</code> to <code>:root</code> selector for setting up WordPress CSS properties (CSS variables).</p>
<p>It also enqueues the global styles early enough so your theme or plugin stylesheet have a better chance to override global styles with minimal effort.</p>
<p>The fix applied is coming from issue <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/38252#issuecomment-1024348024" rel="nofollow ugc">conversation in Gutenberg GitHub repository</a>.</p>


Global Styles Mods – WordPress 5.9 fix

If your theme was built prior to WP 5.9, you might find that updating to WP 5.9+ breaks some styling on your site. This plugin fixes it.

Great plugin, fixes issues in WP 5.9

Fixes styling issues in WordPress 5.9 modifying global styles code.

Hugh vs Global Styles Mods – WordPress 5.9 fix