Nick Laux

Nick Laux

Developer. Designer. Musician.
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I’m a longtime WordPress developer who likes building practical tools that solve frustrating, real-world problems. I’ve spent decades turning vague ideas into working software, usually by keeping things simple, moving quickly, and improving the product as real users and constraints show up. Most recently, I built CSS Guardrail, a WordPress plugin that prevents dangerous CSS changes from damaging live websites. I’m also finishing Media Inspector, a tool designed to make auditing and managing WordPress media libraries easier.

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  • CSS Guardrail
    CSS GuardrailStop bad CSS from wrecking your site
    Jul 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJuly 24th, 2026

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CSS Guardrailp/css-guardrail•

22h ago

What safeguards do you use before editing CSS on a live WordPress site?

I m curious how other WordPress developers handle this.

Editing CSS directly on a live site is one of those things most of us know we probably shouldn t do, but sometimes it is still the fastest way to make a small fix. The problem is that a missing bracket, an overly broad selector, or one bad line can affect far more of the site than expected.

There are plenty of ways to recover afterward: backups, revisions, staging sites, version control, hosting snapshots, and so on. But I m more interested in what people do before saving the change.

Do you always work locally or on staging first? Do you rely on Git? Keep a copy of the previous stylesheet open? Use a CSS validator? Or do you mostly make the change carefully and trust that backups are there if something goes wrong?

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23h ago

CSS Guardrail - Stop bad CSS from wrecking your site

I once spent hours debugging a WordPress site because the problem looked like anything but CSS. The cause was a tiny, easy-to-miss mistake buried in otherwise normal code. CSS Guardrail was born from that experience, adding the safety layer WordPress is missing by checking CSS before it is saved, warning about risky changes, blocking critical errors, and keeping recoverable backups. I’d genuinely value feedback from WordPress developers, freelancers, and agencies.
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