Plugin info

Total downloads: 5,737,603
Active installs: 100,000
Total reviews: 152
Average rating: 4.9
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 18 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 5/26/2025 (219 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 6/2/2015 (10 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.9
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.0.0

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 219 days ago • 152 reviews

47/100

Is SiteOrigin CSS abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 219 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.9
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.0.0

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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.

Documentation

Documentation is available on SiteOrigin.

Support

Free support is available on the SiteOrigin support forums.

SiteOrigin Premium

SiteOrigin 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.

Installation

  1. Upload and install SiteOrigin CSS in the same way you’d install any other plugin.
  2. Read the usage documentation on SiteOrigin.

Frequently Asked Questions

No FAQ available

Review feed

Pieterjan Deneys
5/3/2023

Amazing stuff

This is one of the best CSS plugins out there. It's WAY better for custom CSS than the built in WP way. While writing this review, I made two feature requests which would bump it up to five stars. One thing I'm personally missing is a sort of CSS guide. As in, links to the W3C page of that properity for people to read up upon.

Screenshots

  1. Inspector for finding elements on your site.

    Inspector for finding elements on your site.

  2. Simple visual controls, including a background image uploader.

    Simple visual controls, including a background image uploader.

  3. A full CSS editor that works in real-time with a preview of your site.

    A full CSS editor that works in real-time with a preview of your site.

  4. Code completion for all your theme's selectors.

    Code completion for all your theme's selectors.

Changelog

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.

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