{"id":9,"date":"2026-08-17T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/2026\/08\/17\/custom-css\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:54:00","slug":"custom-css","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/2026\/08\/17\/custom-css\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Custom CSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use <strong>Appearance \u2192 Customize \u2192 Additional CSS<\/strong>. Rules added there survive theme updates, which edits to <code>style.css<\/code> do not.<\/p>\n<h2>Finding the right selector<\/h2>\n<p>Right-click the element in your browser and choose <em>Inspect<\/em>. Child Education uses readable, prefixed class names, so the selector you see is usually the one to target.<\/p>\n<h2>Common tweaks<\/h2>\n<pre><code>\/* Change the body font size *\/\nbody { font-size: 15px; }\n\n\/* Hide the footer credit line *\/\n.copyright a { display: none; }\n\n\/* Constrain a very wide logo *\/\n.logo img { max-height: 60px; width: auto; }<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2>A note on the bundled fonts<\/h2>\n<p>As of 1.3, Child Education bundles Rancho and Overlock locally under <code>\/fonts\/<\/code> rather than loading it from a remote host. If you want a different typeface, either enqueue it from a child theme or override <code>font-family<\/code> in Additional CSS \u2014 do not edit the bundled font CSS, as an update will replace it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use Appearance \u2192 Customize \u2192 Additional CSS. Rules added there survive theme updates, which edits to style.css do not. Finding the right selector Right-click the element in your\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.fasterthemes.com\/child-education-wordpress-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}