WordPress is adding “category” word before my actual category name in url (and this is unsolicited)

This should be a comment but I have not enough reputation yet, sorry for that… As Jacob said in his comment this is the normal behaviour. However this issue has already been discussed many times. Check this Q/A as an example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17798815/remove-category-tag-base-from-wordpress-url-without-a-plugin

Getting incorrect filepath inside custom block front-end output using @wordpress/create-block tutorial

WordPress is inlining the style as an optimisation: When a page gets rendered, stylesheets that have opted-in to get inlined get added to an array. Their size is retrieved using a filesize call (which is why the path data is necessary), and the array is then ordered by ascending size (smaller to larger stylesheet). We … Read more