Author
Elizabeth Sramek
Founder & lead designer
Elizabeth started ThemesCraft in 2012 as a one-person theme shop and has designed every theme the studio has released since. She writes about block themes, typography systems, and the unglamorous work of keeping a fourteen-year-old codebase healthy.
7 articles
Performance
How We Ship a Block Theme in Under 50kb of CSS
Every theme in our catalogue now ships less CSS than a single webfont. Here's the exact budget, what we cut, and the three things that got us most of the win.
Elizabeth Sramek · 2 min read
Theme Development
A theme.json Architecture That Survives Six Client Handovers
Tokens, layers, and the naming convention we landed on after breaking it three times. Includes the starter file we now begin every project with.
Elizabeth Sramek · 1 min read
Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 for Theme Authors: The Nine Checks That Matter
Most theme accessibility failures come from the same short list. We audit every release against these nine checks before it leaves the studio.
Elizabeth Sramek · 1 min read
Client Work
Designing FamilyFund: Fundraising Without the Guilt Trip
A nonprofit theme has to ask for money on every template without ever feeling like it's shouting. The design notes behind our most-installed release.
Elizabeth Sramek · 1 min read
Design Systems
A Type Scale That Holds Up on Real Content
Modular scales look beautiful in a specimen and fall apart the moment an editor writes a nine-word heading. Here's the fluid scale we use instead.
Elizabeth Sramek · 1 min read
WordPress News
What the Latest Core Releases Changed for Theme Authors
Section styles, better pattern registration, and a quieter but important change to how theme.json handles layout. What we had to update, and what we ignored.
Elizabeth Sramek · 1 min read
Client Work
Saying No to Good Client Work
We turn down roughly two-thirds of the bespoke enquiries we get. The three questions we use to decide, and why the answer is usually no.
Elizabeth Sramek · 1 min read