Title: CSS Stylesheet not updating
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# CSS Stylesheet not updating

 *  [bloopbleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloopbleep/)
 * (@bloopbleep)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/)
 * Hey y’all.
 * I’ve tried changing my style.css from both the WordPress editor and my cpanel,
   but the stylesheet in the page source refuses to update (even though the address
   is correct). My hosting is with Namecheap if that means anything.
 * Would post my URL, but the content is pretty explicit.

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 *  [Anthony Skelton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajskelton/)
 * (@ajskelton)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686122)
 * Are you using any caching plugins on your site? If so you may need to clear/empty
   the cache through the Dashboard.
 * Also you can try to do a hard refresh in your browser.
 * Windows: Ctrl + F5
    Mac/Apple: Shift + Apple + R or Shift + Command + R
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686123)
 * You’re allowed to post URLs to content that is not safe for work, as long as 
   you let people know that.
 *  Thread Starter [bloopbleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloopbleep/)
 * (@bloopbleep)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686125)
 * I’m using W3TC. I’ve tried clearing its cache and my browser cache.
 * Site is [http://femdomcaps.com](http://femdomcaps.com) (it’s _very_ nsfw). The
   theme is very outdated and has this weird image styling (images have a white 
   border and for some reason alt tags are shown on top of images)
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686140)
 * Can you clear the W3TC cache again, then deactivate all of your plugins.
 * Then add this style:
 *     ```
       body {
           border: 10px solid red !important;
       }
       ```
   
 * Does the issue persist?
 *  Thread Starter [bloopbleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloopbleep/)
 * (@bloopbleep)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686172)
 * Here’s the result of that – [http://i.imgur.com/mCpHNL2.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/mCpHNL2.jpg)(
   NSFW)
 * Issue is moreso the stylesheet not updating, not the image border (although it’d
   be fantastic to have either fixed)
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686174)
 * If the border worked then your issue is not that your stylesheet is not updating.
   Can you re-explain your issue?
 *  Thread Starter [bloopbleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloopbleep/)
 * (@bloopbleep)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686219)
 * OH. Well to do what you said, I had to leave on my custom CSS plugin (all other
   plugins switched off). Otherwise, it wouldn’t have worked.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686234)
 * Doh forgot about the deactivating plugins part. Did you find out the plugin that
   caused the issue?
 *  Thread Starter [bloopbleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloopbleep/)
 * (@bloopbleep)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686238)
 * Tried deactivating all plugins and then making an edit, no dice still.
 *  Thread Starter [bloopbleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloopbleep/)
 * (@bloopbleep)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686258)
 * Just for extra clarification, here’s how the stylesheet looks in the page source(
   I’m trying to clear the image styling): [http://i.imgur.com/vdhXwod.png](http://i.imgur.com/vdhXwod.png)
 * and here’s how the editor looks: [http://i.imgur.com/3Dulwcn.png](http://i.imgur.com/3Dulwcn.png).
 * Even when I edit the style.css file in cpanel at the same address as in the page
   source, no changes are made 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [bloopbleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloopbleep/)
 * (@bloopbleep)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686321)
 * For extra extra clarification, I can make changes to the CSS via a CSS editor
   plugin, but I cannot through actually editing the style.css. This is a pain since
   it means I cannot delete any styling.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/#post-7686350)
 * Hi Bloopbleep, you’re not meant to edit the theme’s stylesheet so it worth exploring
   this?
 *  Thread Starter [bloopbleep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloopbleep/)
 * (@bloopbleep)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/page/2/#post-7686352)
 * Wait, really? How do most people go about removing styling?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/page/2/#post-7686358)
 * They use a Custom CSS plugin or set up a Child Theme and override the theme’s
   styles (instead of editing the theme’s styles).
 * For example,
    A theme has this style:
 *     ```
       body {
           background: pink;
       }
       ```
   
 * To override it, you just declare the same style but in your Custom CSS plugin
   or Child Them style.css file:
 *     ```
       body {
           background: red;
       }
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-stylesheet-not-updating/page/2/#post-7686358)
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