Title: SiteOrigin CSS Author: Greg - SiteOrigin Published: June 2, 2015 Last modified: December 6, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/so-css/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=2559919) ![](https://ps.w.org/so-css/assets/icon.svg?rev=2556879) # SiteOrigin CSS By [Greg – SiteOrigin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gpriday/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/so-css.1.6.5.zip) * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/#description) * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/#reviews) * [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/#installation) * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-css/) ## Description SiteOrigin CSS is the intuitive and powerful CSS editor designed to empower your WordPress site customization. Enjoy a seamless editing experience with real-time visual controls, making it easy to tweak your site’s look and feel instantly. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced developer, SiteOrigin CSS has you covered. For beginners, our user-friendly visual controls and live previews eliminate the guesswork from CSS editing. See your changes as you make them, ensuring your site looks exactly as you envision. For advanced users, we offer robust code autocompletion, speeding up your workflow and making CSS writing faster and more efficient than ever before. Take full control of your site’s design with SiteOrigin CSS and bring your creative vision to life. #### Inspector The hardest part of editing your site’s design using CSS is usually finding the correct selector to use. The powerful inspector that comes with SiteOrigin CSS makes this easy. While viewing a full preview of your site, just click on an element, and it’ll help you identify the best selector to use to target that element. The inspector will help you even if you have no idea what a CSS selector is. #### Visual Editor Don’t like playing around with code? No problem. SiteOrigin CSS has a set of simple controls that make it easy to choose colors, styles, and measurements. Combined with the inspector, you’ll be able to make changes in just a few clicks. #### CSS Editor SiteOrigin CSS has a powerful CSS editor, the likes of which you’d usually only expect from high-end IDEs. It has autocompletion for both CSS selectors and attributes. It also features very useful CSS linting to help you identify issues in your code before you publish your changes. #### It’s Free We’re committed to keeping SiteOrigin CSS free. You can install it on as many sites as you like without ever worrying about licensing. All future updates and upgrades will be free, and we even offer free support over on our friendly support forums. #### Works With Any Theme There’s an ever-growing collection of awesome WordPress themes, and now with SiteOrigin CSS, you can edit every single one of them to your heart’s content. No matter what theme you’re using, SiteOrigin CSS will work perfectly. #### Actively Developed We’re actively developing SiteOrigin CSS. Keep track of what’s happening over on [GitHub](https://github.com/siteorigin/so-css/). ### Documentation [Documentation](https://siteorigin.com/css/getting-started/) is available on SiteOrigin. ### Support Free support is available on the [SiteOrigin support forums](https://siteorigin.com/thread/). ### SiteOrigin Premium [SiteOrigin Premium](https://siteorigin.com/downloads/premium/) enhances SiteOrigin CSS with a Google Web Font Selector. Choose from hundreds of beautiful web fonts right in the visual editor. SiteOrigin Premium includes access to our professional email support service, perfect for those times when you need fast and effective technical support. We’re standing by to assist you in any way we can. ## Screenshots * [[ * Inspector for finding elements on your site. * [[ * Simple visual controls, including a background image uploader. * [[ * A full CSS editor that works in real-time with a preview of your site. * [[ * Code completion for all your theme’s selectors. ## Installation 1. Upload and install SiteOrigin CSS in the same way you’d install any other plugin. 2. Read the [usage documentation](http://siteorigin.com/css/getting-started/) on SiteOrigin. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3f2dddad51db05e32bdd3dd7fec4da9b6f0862f1489deb2859316fafbe988e71? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Lovely!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lovely-146/)󠁿 [parsmanyaser](https://profiles.wordpress.org/parsmanyaser/) August 30, 2025 1 reply It really makes it easy even for developers by showing the selectors and class names! It really helps me a lot. Thanks! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d78452be1292621ca5fabc2dbef8e0bd6da5d8d9995c5fde072e28059498424d? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[My favourite plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-favourite-plugin-24/)󠁿 [sonyamakepeace](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sonyamakepeace/) November 4, 2024 I don’t know what I’d do without this. I used to struggle writing styles in Wordpress, mainly because it was difficult to target a particular property using the browser inspector. But this makes the whole job dead easy, and it’s free! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/baae189562efa9cf1a7a444fc3028a11ace600d803244022404face7bab59210? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[This is what you need](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-is-what-you-need-7/)󠁿 [Stanislav](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pigus/) October 4, 2024 1 reply Dear friends, this plugin is a real masterpiece! Everything is done simply and conveniently. Developers, I admire your work! You are real professionals in your field! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2e5a2fd3c8eef89a14b6456e3154dabdd635eb19ff700b5326aae93fac7d44fa? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Nicely done, great work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nicely-done-great-work-2/)󠁿 [janino](https://profiles.wordpress.org/janino/) August 2, 2024 1 reply thecanuckian wrote a year or so ago “where has this been all my life?”… I can only repeat. This is one of the most useful WordPress plugins I know. It will shorten the editing time and one can also learn something in coding. Thank you very much for creating it and taking care of updating it. Best regards, friends! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/db3ad0ccf1df46b9d35ca9872bac675eac1e98c3e0c44043a92440ce4c21ffe9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[nice](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-4701/)󠁿 [kojot](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kojot/) November 24, 2023 1 reply SUPER PLUGIN ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/004354e4f3320a298c8f03c3fb9d37397d6f0006aebf70b11d83166f2dc64647? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/where-has-this-been-all-my-life-4/)󠁿 [thecanuckian](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thecanuckian/) May 10, 2023 1 reply Seriously. Enough said.If you have thought up swears in multiple languages trying to deal with selectors and precedence, this tool is TOTALLY for you.My production time just got cut in half. To the fabulous humans who developed this plugin: please make more things. You make beautiful, beautiful things. [ Read all 152 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-css/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “SiteOrigin CSS” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Greg – SiteOrigin ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gpriday/) * [ alexgso ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexgso/) “SiteOrigin CSS” has been translated into 16 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/so-css/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “SiteOrigin CSS” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/so-css) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/so-css/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/so-css/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/so-css/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/so-css/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.6.5 – 06 December 2025 * Updated Tested up to tag. #### 1.6.4 – 26 May 2025 * Installer: Updated submodule. * Updated Tested up to tag. #### 1.6.3 – 15 January 2025 * Resolved Uninstall Notice: Updated `register_uninstall_hook` callback to use a static class method, addressing a WordPress notice introduced in version 3.1.0. #### 1.6.2 – 13 January 2025 * Fixed uninstall process to prevent PHP fatal error by updating the `register_uninstall_hook` callback to use a valid instance method. #### 1.6.1 – 25 November 2024 * CSS Output Location: Additional check to ensure the default is Dedicated File. #### 1.6.0 – 22 November 2024 * Added `Visual Editor: Decoration > Background Attachment` setting. * Added CSS Ouput Location setting. Dedicated CSS File offers best performance, Internal CSS embeds styles in page HTML. #### 1.5.11 – 13 August 2024 * Added Divi theme compatibility. * Accounted for for themes that don’t use menu item selectors by adding them automatically. #### 1.5.10 – 31 May 2024 * Updated SiteOrigin Installer. * Updated Tested up to tag. * Updated Required PHP version. [View full changelog.](https://siteorigin.com/css/changelog/) ## Meta * Version **1.6.5** * Last updated **4 months ago** * Active installations **100,000+** * WordPress version ** 3.9 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * PHP version ** 7.0.0 or higher ** * Languages * [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Danish](https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Dutch (Belgium)](https://nl-be.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Galician](https://gl.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Spanish (Colombia)](https://es-co.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Spanish (Ecuador)](https://es-ec.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/), and [Ukrainian](https://uk.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/so-css) * Tags * [css editor](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/css-editor/)[theme editor](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/theme-editor/) [visual css](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/visual-css/) * [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/so-css/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.9 out of 5 stars. * [ 144 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-css/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 4 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-css/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 1 3-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-css/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-css/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 3 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-css/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-css/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-css/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Greg – SiteOrigin ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gpriday/) * [ alexgso ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexgso/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-css/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](https://siteorigin.com/downloads/premium/)