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Simple CSS

by Tom

Version: 1.1.1

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Description

Need to add some custom CSS to your site? Simple CSS gives you an awesome admin editor and a live preview editor in the Customizer so you can easily add your CSS.

Want your CSS to only apply on a specific page or post? Simple CSS adds a metabox which allows you to do just that.

Check out GeneratePress, our awesome WordPress theme! (https://wordpress.org/themes/generatepress)

Features include:

  • Full featured admin CSS editor
  • Dark and light editor themes
  • CSS editor in the Customizer so you can live preview your changes
  • Metabox for page/post specific CSS

There’s two ways to install Simple CSS.

  1. Go to “Plugins > Add New” in your Dashboard and search for: Simple CSS
  2. Download the .zip from WordPress.org, and upload the folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory via FTP.

In most cases, #1 will work fine and is way easier.

  1. The dark theme of the CSS editor.

    The dark theme of the CSS editor.

  2. The light theme of the CSS editor.

    The light theme of the CSS editor.

  3. The CSS editor in the Customizer.

    The CSS editor in the Customizer.

  4. The CSS editor metabox.

    The CSS editor metabox.

How do I add CSS using your plugin?

  • Make sure Simple CSS is activated.
  • Navigate to “Appearance > Simple CSS” and add your CSS to the editor.

How do I add CSS using the Customizer?

  • Make sure Simple CSS is activated.
  • Navigation to “Appearance > Customize” and open the “Simple CSS” section.

How do I change the editor color?

  • In “Appearance > Simple CSS”, change the “Dark” option below the “Save CSS” button to “Light”.

How do I add CSS that applies only to one page?

  • Navigate to your page or post in the Dashboard and look for the “Simple CSS” metabox.

This is a really awesome plugin, and will remain awesome updates or not

By bmiller22000 on November 23, 2024

Easy to use and gives you the access to behind the scenes places you need (like css on this page, for this table, fast and effectively, without digging through mountains of native wp and plugin stylesheets. It has been a big help.

I want to love it more

By psb on December 16, 2023

This seems like a great idea, and it's super to finally be clear of the small Additional CSS panel in native wordpress.

What's making me unsure if I should continue are 2 things:

1 - when you press Save, it shoots you back to the top of the CSS file. If you wanted to check and re-edit a bit you were working on, you've got to find it again.

2 - no code hints to help complete as you type.

Both these things are present on the Additional CSS panel but not here.

Hope they can introduce!

Excellent plugin

By ws24 on September 23, 2023

By far the best plugin to add custom css, I have been using it for years now and in many websites.

Awesome plugin to give non admins CSS access

By thessnake03 on April 11, 2023

great solution to give certain users CSS access without giving them too much access

Please update

By itsmeagh on January 18, 2023

Please update is amazing plugin.

Brilliant - shaved 75% off my page load time

By Keirwatson on February 9, 2021

I had been struggling with page speed but could see in GT Metrix that custom CSS (Jetpack) was taking over 1 second to load. Copied it over to Simple CSS and page load dropped from 3.3 seconds to 0.8s! That's a 75% reduction - fantastic!!! [Also, I love that I can drop a little bit of CSS into the meta box for some post-specific tweaks - so cool, saves CSS bloat for rarely used styling]

Thanks! Everything you do turns to gold, Tom 🙂

By digifix on September 15, 2020

This solves so much for me/us. I regret not finding this before. Why did I not find this until today? I just clicked every single link on Toms website (generatepress.com) to figure out if I missed some other amazing things. Newsletter from Tom? Yes please.

Great, almost perfect !

By Menace II Society (menace2society) on August 24, 2020

Hello Tom, Any chance in future versions that custom CSS will work on index pages (Blog, archives ...)? I think those are the only things this plugin lacks to be perfect. Thanks Tom for all your wonderful work 🙂 Cordially.

Nice plugin

By nayon129250 on August 2, 2020

Great

Unused CSS Wonderchild!

By shirtguy72 on May 19, 2020

Wonderfully lightweight and useful plugin, much thanks!

1.1.1

  • Fix PHP notice when Simple CSS hasn’t been saved yet

1.1

  • Fix meta box saving issue

1.0

  • Show metabox only on public post types
  • Add live preview to Customizer
  • Code cleanup
  • Better sanitizing/validation

0.4

  • Use browser search instead of CodeMirror dialog search
  • Don’t show GeneratePress metabox if it’s already activated
  • Make CSS box full height

0.3

  • Add CSS metabox to add CSS on specific pages and posts
  • Adjust styling of dark theme
  • Add tips to Simple CSS screen

0.2

  • Remove extra whitespace from CSS output
  • Remove spellcheck from Customizer input
  • Allow > characters in the CSS
  • Add find (ctrl + f) functionality

0.1

  • Initial release
  • Version:Version: 1.1.1
  • Active installs:Active installs: 80K
  • Last updated:Last updated: 2 weeks ago
  • Requires:Requires: 4.0
  • Tested:Tested: 6.8.2
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  • Number of ratings: 56 ratings
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