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Global Styles Mods – WordPress 5.9 fix

Fixes styling issues in WordPress 5.9 modifying global styles code.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.9
Current version1.1.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.9
Minimum stackWP 5.9 · PHP 7.0
Directory statusactive
Last directory update13 Dec 202510mo ago
Active installations90Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 3 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Global Styles Mods – WordPress 5.9 fix version 1.1.0 as active, updated 10mo ago and tested up to WordPress 6.9.

Overview

About this plugin

Plugin’s purpose

9.

👍 When to use this plugin

  • ✅ Your WordPress is of version 5.9 or newer
  • ✅ You are using a theme that supports block editor (Gutenberg) features such as preset font sizes and color palette
  • ✅ Your theme does not support full site editing (FSE) feature (from conversation about reported issues it seems they affect Gutenberg-ready themes only and FSE themes should be fine)
  • ✅ You experience font size or color issues on your website after WordPress 5.9 update
  • ✅ Your theme has not been updated to fix these issues

✋ When NOT to use this plugin

  • You are not using WordPress 5.9 or newer
  • Your theme was updated and is fixing the issues
  • Your theme does not support block editor features (such as preset color palette or font sizes)
  • Your theme is full site editing (FSE) ready
  • You don’t experience any font size or color issues on your website after updating to WordPress 5.9

Technical info

important rule and is setting up CSS properties (CSS variables) within body selector in its global styles code. This rises the global styles specificity and may override styles coming from themes and plugins. )

important rules and changing body to:root selector for setting up WordPress CSS properties (CSS variables).

It also enqueues the global styles early enough so your theme or plugin stylesheet have a better chance to override global styles with minimal effort.

The fix applied is coming from issue conversation in Gutenberg GitHub repository.

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • font size
  • global styles
  • colors
  • fix
  • gutenberg
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.9

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.9.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.9
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.9 · PHP 7.0
Update activity13 Dec 202510mo ago

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