Title: Using a CSS editor
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# Using a CSS editor

 *  [tara e](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tara-e/)
 * (@tara-e)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-css-editor/)
 * i installed WP Live CSS Editor… reliable?
 * how do i run it now that it is installed?

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-css-editor/#post-2565597)
 * Did you get it from here [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-live-css-editor/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-live-css-editor/)
   which says NO PERMISSIONS NOR ROLES SETTINGS YET, DONT USE THIS PLUGIN ON PUBLIC
   SITES, IT’S JUST FOR DESIGNER TIME.
 * If that is ok it should run like a normal plugin. Activate it and should add 
   something to the editor or somewhere else on the menu bar.
 *  Thread Starter [tara e](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tara-e/)
 * (@tara-e)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-css-editor/#post-2565702)
 * i did. i am not clear what the benefit of this plugin is when I can simply edit
   the css files in WP already or use Vi editor.
    utter confusion getting a development
   environment together w/o any experience in WordPress!
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-css-editor/#post-2565704)
 * It allows “real time” edits but like you I don’t see the need. If you edit in
   wp you are close to real time anyway.
 * I edit php and css in dreamweaver and upload to the server. Any problem and I
   hit the “undo” button and upload the original again.
 * If setting up a development environment with the goal of bringing an project 
   live I wouldn’t myself use an untested plugin. Got enough to worry about.
 *  Thread Starter [tara e](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tara-e/)
 * (@tara-e)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-css-editor/#post-2565706)
 * makes sense, thanks… dreamweaver is your development environment… i’m not at 
   the point where i think it makes sense to move to that app.
 * any suggestions, book recommendation, or local tutor to hire! to get on board
   with css code? in order to make changes to a theme’s framework ie. placing a 
   logo at the top left of my home page, rounding out edges of sections/boxes, changing
   fonts?
    thanks much.. Te
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-css-editor/#post-2565711)
 * There are literally thousands of free courses on the web where you can search
   for specific things you want to do.
 * I set wp with the default theme and then started playing with css to see how 
   it worked. Basically 5 years later I am still doing the same thing. I should 
   have long ago taken some free web classes. There are all kinds of books. I started
   with and still use _CSS for Dummies _and _Word Press for Dummies _.
 * Good luck!
 *  Thread Starter [tara e](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tara-e/)
 * (@tara-e)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-css-editor/#post-2565714)
 * thanks for replying… I get it… It’s a forging sort of thing!
    off I go…

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

The topic ‘Using a CSS editor’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [tara e](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tara-e/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-a-css-editor/#post-2565714)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics