Title: All Additional CSS is Missing!
Last modified: October 8, 2020

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# All Additional CSS is Missing!

 *  Resolved [asal3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asal3/)
 * (@asal3)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-additional-css-is-missing/)
 * I logged on to our website this morning to find the header and footer missing.
   After looking into it, I realized all of my additional CSS is missing. How can
   I restore all the CSS?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fall-additional-css-is-missing%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Niall Madhoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nm1com/)
 * (@nm1com)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-additional-css-is-missing/#post-13508999)
 * Hello [@asal3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asal3/),
 * Have you fixed your site? The header and footer are visible in my browser.
 *  Thread Starter [asal3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asal3/)
 * (@asal3)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-additional-css-is-missing/#post-13509030)
 * Hi [@nm1com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nm1com/),
 * Thank you for the quick response! I have started to add back the css from memory,
   but I know that I had more that I am missing. When I was on last week I was at
   about 74 lines and I have only replaced 20. Is there a way to restore my css?
   I have updraft and I checked in my backup theme files and could not find the 
   additional css saved anywhere.
 * Also, do you know what could have caused this all to be deleted? I performed 
   an update about a week ago, but I have all pluggins auto-updates disabled so 
   I don’t believe it was caused from that.
 *  [Niall Madhoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nm1com/)
 * (@nm1com)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-additional-css-is-missing/#post-13509525)
 * You’re welcome!
 * Where did you add the CSS code? To the **Appearance > Customize > Additional 
   CSS** section inside the WordPress admin?
 * If you did, the Additional CSS is stored in the database: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-css-storage-location/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-css-storage-location/).
 * As for what caused this to happen, did you delete or activate any plugins recently?
 * To avoid having this problem in future, you could create a child theme and add
   your custom CSS there: [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/).
 *  Thread Starter [asal3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asal3/)
 * (@asal3)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-additional-css-is-missing/#post-13510190)
 * Yes, it was in the additional CSS section. No recent plugin activity within the
   past week. I’ll try the child theme to avoid this having this issue again.
 * Thank you for your help!
 *  [Niall Madhoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nm1com/)
 * (@nm1com)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-additional-css-is-missing/#post-13513591)
 * You’re welcome!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Niall Madhoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nm1com/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-additional-css-is-missing/#post-13513591)
 * Status: resolved

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