ARTICLE AD BOX
I’m working on a WordPress child theme and I know the basic rule of loading the parent stylesheet first and then the child stylesheet using wp_enqueue_style.
The problem I run into in real projects is that many parent themes load multiple CSS files and also add inline styles. Because of this, overriding styles in the child theme often turns into increasing CSS specificity or using !important, which I’d like to avoid.
I wanted to understand how this is usually handled in practice:
Is it better to rely only on dependency-based enqueueing, or is it acceptable to dequeue some parent styles?
How do experienced developers keep child theme overrides clean when the parent theme structure isn’t simple?
Are there any performance concerns with different approaches?
