Title: CSS Classes &amp; ID&#039;s
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# CSS Classes & ID's

 *  Resolved [colinsp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinsp/)
 * (@colinsp)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-classes-ids/)
 * Something you ought to consider when you do the next update is renaming your 
   CSS classes and id’s. Using generic names such as description can (and did for
   me) cause some issues with existing plugins and theme. Your classes should have
   unique names like ufe_description.
 * That aside, thanks for an excellent plugin I am in the process of ‘prettying 
   up’ the user-profile.php for my own use because it looks horrible with my themes
   CSS styles due to the above.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-frontend/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-frontend/)

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 *  Plugin Author [wpcodingde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcodingde/)
 * (@wpcodingde)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-classes-ids/#post-5456229)
 * Hello there,
 * sorry for the huge and unforgivable delay and lack of support. I’ll do my best
   to change this in 2015.
 * Hi, thanks for this request. For the markup and its classes I used the theme 
   2013 as template. If you want to change the templates you can do that within 
   your theme:
 * >  **Can I style my own pages? (Version 1.0.2)**
   > Yes you can. As written in the ‘Installation’-tab you only have to copy (donot
   > move, just to be sure to have a backup) the templates from `/wp-content/plugins/
   > user-frontend/templates/` to `wp-content/themes/your-theme/`. After that edit
   > it wisely.
   > **Can I style my own pages? (Version 1.0.3 – upcoming)**
   > Yes you can. As written in the ‘Installation’-tab you only have to copy (donot
   > move, just to be sure to have a backup) the templates from `/wp-content/plugins/
   > user-frontend/templates/` to `wp-content/themes/your-theme/user-frontend/`.
   > After that edit it wisely.
 * But I will rethink the basic template to fit more needs.
 * Best regards,
    Thomas
 *  Thread Starter [colinsp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinsp/)
 * (@colinsp)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-classes-ids/#post-5456230)
 * Thanks good to hear from you and I look forward to the next version of your plugin.
 * My comment was about making your plugin more flexible and not tying it to one
   theme. A large number of WP users do not use a default theme but use one of the
   thousands on offer.
 * By making your CSS classes unique to your plugin it prevents conflicts with the
   CSS in themes and plugins that may be used on the site. Just good coding practice
   imho.
 *  Plugin Author [wpcodingde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcodingde/)
 * (@wpcodingde)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-classes-ids/#post-5456231)
 * So, maybe I should add ‘uf-‘ as prefix for the classes?
 *  Thread Starter [colinsp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinsp/)
 * (@colinsp)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-classes-ids/#post-5456232)
 * In my opinion yes and have your own style sheet that defines those classes that
   way you do not rely on how the them has defined them. It then makes it easy for
   your plugin users to change those classes to suit their layout.
 * For instance if the theme description class is defined as font-size:20px and 
   you are only expecting it to be 14px then it will mess up the entire layout of
   your plugin front end page. If you define it yourself with your own class you
   have full control.
 *  Plugin Author [wpcodingde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcodingde/)
 * (@wpcodingde)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-classes-ids/#post-5456233)
 * Okay, I’ll update this in the next big update. Apparently the current Version
   1.0.4 is stable and this is really good. So the css/template-Update will be in
   1.1.
 * Best Regards,
    Thomas
 * P.S.: Thanks for your feedback!

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