Title: Uncustomizable
Last modified: March 18, 2019

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# Uncustomizable

 *  [Jaaaarne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaaaarne/)
 * (@jaaaarne)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncustomizable/)
 * Looks very good – up until the moment you try to customize the colour palette.
 * Theme generates **hundreds** of **inline** css rules. That makes it impossible
   to override them with a custom css neither via Customizer, nor via child theme.
   Even if you make changes directly in the theme style.css, they are simply not
   applied, because of inline css, which takes precedence.
 * At the same time the **only** colour choice in Customizer for the 4.9 branch 
   is the accent colour. That’s the blog name link.
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by [Jaaaarne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaaaarne/).
      Reason: I was angry and was not entirely fair. It's a decent theme other than
      the inline css issue

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 *  Theme Author [Anders Norén](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anlino/)
 * (@anlino)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncustomizable/#post-11321181)
 * Hi [@jaaaarne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaaaarne/),
 * The inline CSS rules are used to apply the custom accent color, set in the Customizer.
   It isn’t just used for the blog name link, but everywhere where the default gold
   accent color is used (hence hundreds of rules).
 * If you want to disable the custom accent color functionality in a child theme,
   in order to make the styles easier to overwrite, you can do so by adding the 
   following code to the `functions.php` file in your child theme:
 * `remove_action( 'wp_head', array( 'hoffman_customize', 'hoffman_header_output'));`
 * — Anders
 *  Thread Starter [Jaaaarne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaaaarne/)
 * (@jaaaarne)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uncustomizable/#post-11326103)
 * Doesn’t look like accent only. I don’t believe there can be 400+ instances of
   a colour accent. I discovered it after having completely rewritten the colour
   scheme only to see that it simply was not applied as expected.
 * Don’t take me wrong, this is not the only theme that has colour customizations
   via WP Customizer. However, this is the first theme I’ve seen that plain refuses
   to be customized colour-wise even via its native css file, not to mention other
   options. All because of hardcoded css.
 * I think this might be somehow connected to its Gutenberg support, where every
   paragraph is its own independent div. I’m on 4.x, though, and for me the only
   way out was to rudely remove the ‘Output custom CSS to live site’ part of the
   functions code, to prevent inline css being inserted at all.
 * Other than that it’s a solid theme. I think I’ll keep using it, because no minimal
   and single column themes for journalling are developed these days. But this empire
   of inline css is beyond all sense.

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