Best way to overide plugin CSS?

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Currently, I use CSS specificity to override plugin styles. I prefer this for editing the plugin as it makes less headaches when you update.

It would be nice if my style sheet loaded after the plugins, so that I only have to be as specific, not more. This would make my stylesheets much prettier.

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As you suggest, the most elegant approach is when your CSS overrides are loaded after the CSS injected by the plugins. This is quite easy to achieve – you just need to make sure that your header.php calls wp_head() before it references your style sheet:

<head>
    <!-- all the usual preamble stuff goes here -->

    <?php wp_head(); ?>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/2680/<?php bloginfo("stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" />
</head>

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