Woodmart Theme Settings Custom CSS not applied / CSS file not regenerating

Dear XTemos Support Team, dear Aizaz Imtiaz Awan,

I am currently experiencing an issue with the Custom CSS in Woodmart Theme Settings.

Normally, CSS added in
Woodmart → Theme Settings → Custom CSS
is compiled into the generated file:

xts-theme_settings_default-XXXX.css

However, after recent updates, the CSS I add there no longer appears in the generated file and is not applied on the frontend. It worked perfectly before!

Observations
– The frontend loads the file
xts-theme_settings_default-1772740533.css
– This file still contains old CSS rules, even after saving the Theme Settings.
– Newly added rules (for example color: #ffffff !important;) do not appear in that file.
– Even a simple test rule such as:

body {
outline: 5px solid lime !important;
}

does not appear or apply when placed in Theme Settings → Custom CSS.

Additional symptoms
– The WordPress admin area has recently become noticeably slower.
– Clearing all caches (browser, server, and plugin caches) did not resolve the issue.
– The generated CSS file from Woodmart seems to remain unchanged.

Could this indicate that the Woodmart CSS generator is not regenerating the theme settings CSS file correctly or that the file is cached/locked somewhere?

If there is a way to force regeneration of the xts-theme_settings_default CSS file or reset the CSS generation system, I would appreciate guidance.

Should you come to the conclusion that this is a cache issue, please offer detailed guidance which cache remains to be cleared and how this is done. I have already done the following:
• cleared Files & Data from the Elementor cache
• cleared the Hostinger cache
• cleared the browser cache
• cleared all caching plugins
• and performed a hard refresh (CTRL + F5)

Thank you very much for your help.

Kind regards

Hello,

Please deactivate all the 3rd party plugins and activate only theme-required plugins on the site and then check the issue. I am sure your issue will be solved. Then Activate the 3rd party plugins one by one and check which plugin is creating the issue for you.

Otherwise, if the issue still exists then keep the 3rd party plugins deactivated and let me know so I will check and give you a possible solution.

Best Regards.

Hi Aizaz Imtiaz Awan,

I deactivated all 3rd party plugins. However, even with all of them deactivated, the problem remains: the xts-theme_settings_default-file is does not correspond to the latest CSS-Code in the Theme Settings. I left all of the 3rd-party plugins deactivated for you to check. Fingers crossed 🙂

Many thanks for your help!

Hello,

Please add this code to the child theme >> functions.php file and check.

add_filter('request_filesystem_credentials', '__return_true');

Best Regards.

Oh wow! Whatever you did… it helped! Thank you so much!! 🙂

I also added your code to my child theme.

Could you please let me know what you did to make it work and what the actual issue was?

Kind regards

[Aizaz Imtiaz Awan]

Hello,

Glad to hear it’s working now 🙂

The issue was related to how WordPress was requesting filesystem (FTP) credentials on your server. Even though the correct permissions were already in place, WordPress was still asking for them.

The code simply tells WordPress to skip that request and use direct filesystem access instead, which resolves the problem.

Best Regards

• This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by Aizaz Imtiaz Awan.

Many thanks!! 🙂

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Hello,

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