Title: Editing Custom CSS
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Editing Custom CSS

 *  Resolved [benpaddlejones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benpaddlejones/)
 * (@benpaddlejones)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-custom-css-2/)
 * Hi
    I’m helping someone fix issues on their website built overseas. Styles are
   not being applied (and possibly some need adding)
 * WordPress 4.6 hosted on wordpress.org
 * URL is: [http://thinkchangegrow.com/](http://thinkchangegrow.com/)
 * The header.PHP has: <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php echo esc_url(
   get_template_directory_uri() ); ?>/css/custom.css”>
 * HTML output is: <!– <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”[http://thinkchangegrow.com/wp-content/themes/thinkgrow/css/custom.css”&gt](http://thinkchangegrow.com/wp-content/themes/thinkgrow/css/custom.css”&gt);–
   >
 * I want to:
    a) edit the custom.css, but cannot find the file in the admin console
   to edit it, any ideas? b) understand why the line is commented out (<!– –>) in
   the HTML?
 * Ben

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 *  [lelandf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lelandf/)
 * (@lelandf)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-custom-css-2/#post-7680372)
 * a) You’d need to get in the filesystem another way. Do you have FTP access? Perhaps
   you could use [Simple Custom CSS](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/)
   instead?
 * b) I’m guessing this is because of the [WP Fastest Cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fastest-cache/)
   the site appears to be using. It’s concatenating and minifying all the CSS files.
 * If new styles are not being applied, you may need to refresh the cache. I’m not
   familiar with WPFC though, this question might be more appropriate for [its support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-fastest-cache).
 *  Thread Starter [benpaddlejones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benpaddlejones/)
 * (@benpaddlejones)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-custom-css-2/#post-7680383)
 * Hi Leland
    Excellent, thanks for your reply. Yes FTP sounds right, I’m waiting
   for the overseas developers to get back to us re access.
 * Thanks for advice on WPFC, you are correct I truned off min.js in settings and
   it stopped commenting out.
 * Ben
 *  [lelandf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lelandf/)
 * (@lelandf)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-custom-css-2/#post-7680405)
 * I wouldn’t necessarily advise turning that feature off completely.
 * Presumably, when it’s commenting out one of the “complete” stylesheets (like 
   custom.css), it’s concatenating and minifying it into a single stylesheet. So
   the styles would still be there.
 * There should be some sort of “refresh” button somewhere to reload any new styles
   into the generated minified stylesheet.
 *  Thread Starter [benpaddlejones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benpaddlejones/)
 * (@benpaddlejones)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-custom-css-2/#post-7680427)
 * Yes, just turned off to confirm your theory and turned back on.
 * Thanks for the advice.
 * Ben

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