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WordPress Ecommerce with WordPress and WooCommerce Extending WooCommerce WooCommerce Widgets

Natalia Karolinskaya
Natalia Karolinskaya
9,367 Points
Posted by Natalia Karolinskaya
Natalia Karolinskaya
9,367 Points

Styling wordpress website with CSS

Where can I found information about hot to style wordpress with CSS?

Thanks

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
2,395 Points

Hi Natalia,

Will you please add additional details about what you want to accomplish?

WordPress styling is contained within themes. Therefore, are you wanting to create a custom theme or modify the styling of an existing theme?

3 Answers

Natalia Karolinskaya
Natalia Karolinskaya
9,367 Points
Natalia Karolinskaya
Natalia Karolinskaya
9,367 Points

Hi Evan,

I would like to change the styling of an existing theme. Thank you.

Allen Abraham
Allen Abraham
3,063 Points
Allen Abraham
Allen Abraham
3,063 Points

try using the simple css plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
2,395 Points
Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
2,395 Points

In my opinion, and from what I've read elsewhere, the recommended approach is to create a child theme of the theme you would like to modify.

With a child theme, you are only overwriting the files necessary to make your changes — many are just a style.css file... The benefit is that the parent theme can be updated without overwriting your changes.

Treehouse has a video on this: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-make-a-website-with-wordpress/customizing-wordpress-themes/how-to-make-child-themes

In the Teacher's Notes, there's a link to the WordPress Codex that has additional technical guidance on child themes.