Title: Styling & Coding
Last modified: October 10, 2025

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# Styling & Coding

 *  Resolved [learningMore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealtergott/)
 * (@ealtergott)
 * [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-coding/)
 * I put wordpress down for about 8 years, such a learning curve – especially since
   I like to make changes. Uggg.
   I installed the additional plugin to modify colors
   but I’m afraid to do anything cause I am using a dark background on my child 
   theme. I’d prefer to use my themes color scheme but it doesn’t look promising.
   I don’t want to make changes since it will change the colors when I use Ultimate
   Member forms, I assume.I love the idea of using the Member aspects but I’m getting
   frustrated. Am I reading too much into this? I don’t know php except for function.
   php and style.css. I don’t know the j scripts either, nor can I read the styles
   after all are brought together on the option.
 * I don’t think there is anyway to view the page when I insert the shortcode cause
   it doesn’t display in the admin area when editing the page. I try another browser
   and I guess I have to cut and paste into each pages css, like this:
 * div.um .um-field-label, div.um .um-field-label:hover .um-tip i {
    1. color: var(–color-field-label, #555);
 * }
 * Isn’t there an easy way. Weeks at this and I am ready to give up.
   Otherwise, 
   the plugin looked promising. I’m guessing wordpress is just gone way over my 
   head and its time to look for something else.Thank you.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fstyling-coding%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [missveronica](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missveronicatv/)
 * (@missveronicatv)
 * [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-coding/#post-18677152)
 * [@ealtergott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealtergott/)
 * You can read this guide by the UM developers about color changes
 * [https://docs.ultimatemember.com/article/270-how-to-change-default-ultimate-member-blue-color-using-css](https://docs.ultimatemember.com/article/270-how-to-change-default-ultimate-member-blue-color-using-css)
 *  Plugin Support [Yurii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuriinalivaiko/)
 * (@yuriinalivaiko)
 * [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-coding/#post-18682676)
 * Hello [@ealtergott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealtergott/)
 * You can change styling by adding your custom CSS code to the **style.css** file
   in your child theme. Styles added to this file apply to all pages.
 * If you only need to change the color scheme, you can use the free plugin “Ultimate
   Member – Optimize and Color”. Once the plugin is installed, go to _wp-admin >
   Ultimate Member > Settings > Appearance > Colors_, turn on the **Enable custom
   colors** setting then use settings below to set a color scheme you prefer. See
   details on GitHub: [https://github.com/umdevelopera/um-optimize?tab=readme-ov-file#how-to-customize-ultimate-member-colors](https://github.com/umdevelopera/um-optimize?tab=readme-ov-file#how-to-customize-ultimate-member-colors)
 * Regards
 *  Thread Starter [learningMore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ealtergott/)
 * (@ealtergott)
 * [7 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-coding/#post-18688290)
 * Thank you.

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