SiteOrigin CSS
Powerful, simple CSS editing for WordPress. Visual controls & real-time previews for effortless site customization.
4.9(152 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, SiteOrigin CSS is a WordPress css editor plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 152 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.9+ and PHP 7.0.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Downloads are down 9% this week. Top alternative: Visual CSS Style Editor.
4.9/5152 reviews
100K+active installs
5.9M+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
SiteOrigin CSS is the intuitive and powerful CSS editor designed to empower your WordPress site customization. Enjoy a seamless editing experience with real-time visual controls, making it easy to tweak your site’s look and feel instantly. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced developer, SiteOrigin CSS has you covered.
For beginners, our user-friendly visual controls and live previews eliminate the guesswork from CSS editing. See your changes as you make them, ensuring your site looks exactly as you envision. For advanced users, we offer robust code autocompletion, speeding up your workflow and making CSS writing faster and more efficient than ever before. Take full control of your site’s design with SiteOrigin CSS and bring your creative vision to life.
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Recent Reviews
Lovely!
by parsmanyaser·7 months ago·1 reply
It really makes it easy even for developers by showing the selectors and class names!
It really helps me a lot.
Thanks!
My favourite plugin
by sonyamakepeace·1 year ago
I don’t know what I’d do without this. I used to struggle writing styles in WordPress, mainly because it was difficult to target a particular property using the browser inspector. But this makes the whole job dead easy, and it’s free!
This is what you need
by Stanislav·1 year ago·1 reply
Dear friends, this plugin is a real masterpiece! Everything is done simply and conveniently. Developers, I admire your work! You are real professionals in your field!
Nicely done, great work
by janino·1 year ago·1 reply
thecanuckian wrote a year or so ago “where has this been all my life?”… I can only repeat.
This is one of the most useful WordPress plugins I know. It will shorten the editing time and one can also learn something in coding.
Thank you very much for creating it and taking care of updating it.
Best regards, friends!
nice
by kojot·2 years ago·1 reply
SUPER PLUGIN
Download Trends
Today: 418Yesterday: 468This week: 3KPeriod total: 395K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.6
66.7%
v1.5
19.4%
v1.2
9.2%
Other
4.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.6.5 – 06 December 2025
- Updated Tested up to tag.
Contributors
Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.