Although there are thou­sands of Word­Press themes out in the wild, we will be ini­tially mak­ing avail­able only a small col­lec­tion of “curated” themes. These themes will have a small amount of Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity brand­ing. Most will be min­i­mal­ist, with neu­tral col­ors, and some will have con­fig­urable options. As the ser­vice grows, so will our theme offerings.

How­ever, site own­ers some­times want to devi­ate from the default appear­ance of the themes, or they might (for some inex­plic­a­ble rea­son) want to elim­i­nate all traces of orange and black. Sites in our Roxen CMS envi­ron­ment have the custom.css file, and we wanted to offer a sim­i­lar option with WordPress.

For­tu­nately, Automat­tic, the com­mer­cial entity behind WordPress.com, cre­ated a plu­gin that pro­vides this fea­ture. Site admins will find an “Edit CSS” menu under the Appear­ance sec­tion in the left nav­i­ga­tion of wp-admin.

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