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Description
Add Custom CSS to your WordPress site without any hassles.
An easy-to-use WordPress Plugin to add custom CSS styles that override Plugin and Theme default styles. This plugin is designed to meet the needs of administrators who would like to add their own CSS to their WordPress website. Styles created with this plugin will render even if the theme is changed.
New in Version 4.0.7
Tested for compatibility with WP 6.7.2
Tested for compatibility with PHP 8.4
Features
AMP Support
Customizer Control (live preview)
Useful Code Syntax Highlighter
Code linting (error checking)
No configuration needed
Simple interface built on native WordPress UI
Virtually no impact on site performance
No complicated database queries
Thorough documentation
Allows Administrator access on WP Networks (Multisite)
Usage
Navigate to Appearance > Custom CSS in the Admin Menu
Enter in valid CSS styles
Click “Update Custom CSS”
View your changes in the Front End of your website
Help
Simple Custom CSS Wiki
Support Forum
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Installation
Install Simple Custom CSS just as you would any other WP Plugin:
Download Simple Custom CSS
from WordPress.org.
Unzip the .zip file.
Upload the Plugin folder (simple-custom-css/) to the wp-content/plugins folder.
Go to
Plugins Admin Panel
and find the newly uploaded Plugin, “Simple Custom CSS” in the list.
Click “Activate Plugin.”
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This plugin block me from viewing my media files when I am, for instance, trying to add an image block to a page. Except for this I think it is an excellent plugin. My work-around will be to disable this plugin while adding any image media and re-enabling it when I am done.
İt’s so easy to use and does the job as described.
Simple and useful, but modern CSS properties like clamp(), repeat(), margin-inline, or less common units like dvh throw syntax errors. For beginners, this can be really confusing.
Have been relying on this plugin for several years. The problem is that it appears to have been abandoned, leading to warnings on popular security sites and plugins. It would be so great to have it updated again!
No settings needed for this plug in. It just works. Great choice for customizing footers and headers.
After many lost hours this finally solved my problems.
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Contributors & Developers
“Simple Custom CSS Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
John Regan
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Changelog
4.0.7
* Tested for compatibility with WP 6.7.2
* Tested for compatibility with PHP 8.4
4.0.6
* Remove Customizer features when using a Block Theme. Props @tricarte
* Tested for compatibility with WP version 6.1
* Tested for compatibility with PHP 8.1
4.0.5
* AMP Support. Thanks, @westonruter!
* Tested for compatibility with WP version 5.8.1
4.0.4
* Tested for compatibility with WP version 5.4.1
4.0.3
* Tested for compatibility with WP version 5.3
4.0.2
* Use WP’s CodeMirror on settings page
* Tested for compatibility with WP version 5.1.1
* Tested for compatibility with PHP version 7.2
4.0.1
* Fixed bug with broken editor styles on older versions of WP.
4.0
* New Customizer Control (still compatible with older WP versions)
* Added colors and linting to the Settings Page
* Updated hooks to replace hyphens with underscores
* Tested for WPCS compliance
* Tested for compatibility with WP version 4.9.4
3.3
* Added support for https://
* Added base support for Danish language. Thanks @ThomasDK81!
* Tested for compatibility with WP version 4.4.1
3.2
* Tested for compatibility with WP 4.1
* Improved architecture to reduce the number of queries. Thanks @dannyvankooten!
3.0.1
* Tested for compatibility with WP 3.9.1
* Sidebar “Update CSS” button added
3.0
* Added Sytnax Highlighter
* Removed Need for “Allow Quotation Marks” checkbox
* Removed plugin attribution text
* Minor styling changes. Thanks @kucrut!
2.5
* Fixed issue with WP installs in subdirectories. Thanks @lopo!
* Tested for compatibility with WP 3.8.1
2.0
* Added option to allow Double Quotes in CSS
* Tested for compatibility with WP 3.8
1.2.1
* Tested for compatibility with WP 3.7.1
* Code update to conform fully with WP coding standards
1.2
* Give Admins (not just Super Admins) access to the plugin
* Correcting Credit error
* Minor Bugfixes
1.1.1
* Allowing the “>” direct child selector.
1.1
* Removed unneeded hidden input
* Added Action Hooks
* Added cleanup on deletion
* Added author attribution option
* Added a more elegant method for adding CSS to the page:
Instead of using print_scripts() to insert the CSS directly into the HEAD, CSS styles are generated within simple-custom-css.php, then added via wp_enqueue_scripts, so now it will appear in the HEAD as:

…even though no css file is actually generated.
1.0
* Initial Release
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Version
4.0.7
1 year
ago
Active installations
100,000+
WordPress version
3.0.1 or higher
Tested up to
6.7.5
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