Basic CSS modifications not working

Dear Satrya,

Thanks for putting together this plugin. I love it!

I am using it in my front page through a shortcode plugin: https://www.surbound.com/blog

As you can see, the text runs into the thumbnail, and I want to give it additional margin above and below; as well as edit the text and post title. I can do this using Chrome via inspect element. But when I make changes in the CSS box provided in the plugin itself nothing happens. in other words, changes I make in the default css box under the Shortcode widget are not reflected in my site.

I am not an experienced PHP user at all. I may need to add new selectors to the existing CSS perhaps?

I would greatly appreciate your input on this.

Thanks much,

Al

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