WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

Customizing look and feel using styles

This is one of the frequently used customization's where you need all plugins to match the styles of the theme. We have three ways of applying style customization's for a plugin:

• Using theme styles files: We can add the styles to the style.cs file of theme theme and override the plugin styles. This method should be only used in the child theme, when there are minor style changes to the plugin.
• Using a custom CSS plugin: There are many existing CSS plugins that allows us to add dynamic custom styles to various parts of the site without needing to create CSS files. These plugins provide a settings section, where we can add the dynamic CSS to be stored in the database and loaded to the site. This technique ...