Remove the Theme’s Default CSS in Our themes

By default, the Listify and Jobify themes automatically loads its default CSS styles—even when you are using a child theme. This is intentional and ensures that all layout and visual components function as expected.

When customizing your site, the recommended approach is to create a child theme and override specific styles using custom CSS. This ensures you inherit updates from the parent theme while safely applying your own changes.

You do not need to remove the theme’s CSS to customize your site. Instead, you should override the theme’s styles using more specific selectors in your child theme’s style.css. This ensures compatibility, future-proofing, and performance.

To learn more about how CSS specificity works, check out this external guide:
MDN Web Docs – CSS Specificity.

Disabling Listify’s default CSS is generally not advised. The theme’s layout and functionality rely on these styles, and removing them may break essential components such as listing grids, buttons, headers, footers, and more.

However, if you have a very specific use case (e.g., you’re rebuilding all styling from scratch using a page builder or custom framework), you can consider removing the theme’s styles by one of the following non-code methods:

  • Using a Custom Plugin: Some advanced CSS manager plugins may allow you to deregister theme stylesheets. This should only be used by experienced developers and tested thoroughly.
  • Performance Plugins (Advanced): Plugins like Asset CleanUp or Perfmatters allow you to selectively disable theme stylesheets. These should be used with caution and always tested on staging before use on a live site.

Important: If you do choose to remove the theme’s styles using any method, ensure you have thoroughly recreated necessary layout and responsive behavior in your custom styles.

🧠 Summary

  • ✅ Use a child theme and CSS specificity to override styles.
  • ❌ Avoid removing default CSS unless you’re rebuilding all styling from the ground up.
  • 🧪 Test thoroughly when using any method to remove or deregister theme styles.

Need help with customization or theme styling? Visit our Knowledge Base or contact Astoundify Support.

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