Title: Using theme options to modify CSS Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Using theme options to modify CSS * [snthr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snthr/) * (@snthr) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-theme-options-to-modify-css/) * Hi. * I had a look around and I couldn’t find an exact answer to this question… * I’m making a theme at the moment, and I’m including some theme options. I have the basics working, but I need to know the ‘best practice’ ways of doing a couple of things. * Specifically, I want users of my theme to be able to set their own link colour. To do this, I need to re-write the default link colour in my CSS file with whatever they want. As far as I am aware, you can’t directly use PHP in a CSS file (not without renaming it to something like styles.css.php, which I don’t want to do). * A lot of themes allow this ability to set link colours — is there a standard or accepted way that they do this? How do they do it without using PHP in their CSS? * Thanks. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * (@rvoodoo) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-theme-options-to-modify-css/#post-1915961) * They use css in their php! It can be printed as inline css using wp_head, which allows it to be output in the section of the site * ``` add_action( 'wp_head', 'voodoo_inline_css', 100000 ); if( get_theme_option( 'custom_css' ) ) theme_option( 'custom_css' ); do_action( 'voodoo_inline_css' ); ``` * I have a custom_css option where users can input the css, then it gets added in * Thread Starter [snthr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snthr/) * (@snthr) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-theme-options-to-modify-css/#post-1916381) * Thanks for the info. * I’m not sure I really understand you, though. The code you posted — where does that go? Into functions.php or somewhere like that? * How would I add several CSS options for a user to mess with in the theme? * Thanks. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Using theme options to modify CSS’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [colours](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/colours/) * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/) * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * [Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/themes/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [snthr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snthr/) * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-theme-options-to-modify-css/#post-1916381) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics