How to add CSS to control elements on the back end of your WordPress site

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Let’s say you want to style the dashboard, or hide an element that normally shows when editing a Post using display:none;. Even if you can discover the CSS selector using your browser’s inspector and test out your custom styling, you can’t just copy and paste that into the WordPress Customizer.

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What the Code Snippet does

You have to use a custom PHP header around the CSS and put it in your fuctions.php file or use

 

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Here's the Code Snippet

add_action( 'wp_head', function () { ?>
<style>

/* write your CSS code here */

</style>
<?php } );

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