Title: Customizing the look using CSS
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Customizing the look using CSS

 *  Resolved [rwb43](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rwb43/)
 * (@rwb43)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-look-using-css/)
 * Mike,
 * Your FAQ says there are lots of extra IDs that can be used to customize the layout
   using CSS.
 * I am not seeing these tags. Please see [http://barrychole.com/reading-list/](http://barrychole.com/reading-list/)
   and let me know what I am missing. Below is sample:
 *     ```
       <article id="post-75" style="margin: 0 2.5% 0 15%!important;width:15.25%;">
       <header class="entry-header">
       <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anonymous-Jesus-hidden-years-yours/dp/0785298398/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389972340&sr=8-1&keywords=Anonymous%3A+the+hidden+years" target="_blank"><img src="http://barrychole.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Anonymous-e1389972485914.jpg" style="width:100%;"></a>
       </header><!-- .entry-header -->
       </article>
       ```
   
 * Here is another sample:
 *     ```
       <header class="entry-header">
       <div class="entry-meta">
       <h2 class="entry-title">
       Anonymous: Jesus’ Hidden Years and Yours
       </h2>
       <p id="work-author">By: 														<a href="http://barrychole.com/reading-list/author/Alicia-Britt-Chole/">
       Alicia Britt Chole</a>
       </p>
       <p id="work-type"></p>
       </div><!-- .entry-meta -->
       </header>
       ```
   
 * Thanks so much for your time. I know this is somewhat a thankless task.
 * Sincerly,
    Richard
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-reading-list/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-reading-list/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mike Stumpf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mstumpf/)
 * (@mstumpf)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-look-using-css/#post-4622111)
 * Hi Richard,
 * No worries about asking questions; I do not mind at all.
 * To answer your question, you are right; in the snippets that you chose, there
   are not a lot of WP Reading List-specific tags. My problem when designing the
   templates for the plugin was balancing the need to create something that sat 
   well within popular WordPress themes for the basic user and yet have something
   which was customizable by the more advanced user. I ended up using more common
   css classes and ids where they would be expected, i.e. “entry-header”, “entry-
   meta”, etc., and I made new tags on the more unique elements that this plugin
   adds like “work-author”, “work-type”, etc. So, all in all, it might not be as
   versatile as one might wish.
 * To help with this, I just pushed a new release (version 2.2.1) and added a “master
   section” to each of the templates with the id “wprl-section” which you can use
   as your base css selector and work downwards from there, for example:
 *     ```
       #wprl-section .entry-meta {
       display:none;
       }
       ```
   
 * Hopefully this helps you. Do you have any ideas on where I could also add tags
   to help styling?
 * Thanks,
 * Mike

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-look-using-css/#post-4622111)
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