“Customize” override styles are saved where?

  • When you use the Dashboard “customize” option (to customize *any* theme)… where are those override styles written?

    For example, I changed the body background color and then looked for it in the theme’s style.css file and couldn’t find my change.

    Is there some customize.css file WP uses for these overrides?

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  • It’s injected inline into the <head> area of your site.

    If you want to modify your CSS code you can easily do it using a Custom CSS plugin, or via the use of a Child Theme.

    If you simply modify your style.css file your custom code will be overwritten should you update the theme in the future, whereas using the above methods will preserve your CSS modifications.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter kirkbross

    (@kirkbross)

    Thanks.

    I’m using a child-theme… I had just always thought the universal / built-in theme “customize” function wrote the changes to the theme’s actual style.css… namely because the elements / selectors you can customize in that area of the dashboard change with each theme.

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