Title: Poorly writtencss
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Poorly writtencss

 *  [Aohor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aohor/)
 * (@aohor)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poorly-writtencss/)
 * good plugin with a poorly written css of using !important everywhere. when I’m
   using widget I can remove them through settings. but when using shortcode there
   is no way to override some style. even if I use !important, the plugins css over
   ride mine.
 * can’t understand why A plugin author ll use this & stop the opportunity to customize
   the look.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/)

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 *  [Samuel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sambody/)
 * (@sambody)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poorly-writtencss/#post-7149688)
 * I agree that those “!important” shouldn’t be there, it makes it impossible to
   override. The only way is to completely remove all the plugin’s styles, and add
   your own custom styles. It’s all or nothing.
 * So the suggestion to the plugin author is to remove those !important declarations.
   Does that make sense ?
 * Thank you.
 *  [burtflaxton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burtflaxton/)
 * (@burtflaxton)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poorly-writtencss/#post-7149698)
 * In the readme.txt
 * > = How to add custom style? =
   >  First, please uncheck the **Use Default Style**
   > option then place the css code below in the Custom CSS box, then you can customize
   > it to fit your needs
 * Now, if only we knew where to uncheck that option from…
 *  [burtflaxton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burtflaxton/)
 * (@burtflaxton)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poorly-writtencss/#post-7149699)
 * Well, that was easy. Each widget has an option to use the default CSS, and it’s
   very own custom css option, per widget.
 * I do agree that the use of !important complicates things though.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poorly-writtencss/#post-7149699)
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