Title: Please stop using !important in plugin styles
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Please stop using !important in plugin styles

 *  [forboding-angel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forboding-angel/)
 * (@forboding-angel)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-stop-using-important-in-plugin-styles/)
 * If makes it nearly impossible to override via a theme stylesheet. There is literally
   no good reason for this plugin to be using !important in it’s style rules.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-columns/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-columns/)

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 *  Thread Starter [forboding-angel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forboding-angel/)
 * (@forboding-angel)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-stop-using-important-in-plugin-styles/#post-6166575)
 * This still hasn’t been fixed… What the hell?

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 * Last reply from: [forboding-angel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forboding-angel/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-stop-using-important-in-plugin-styles/#post-6166575)
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