pom_theme_get_global_css: read global CSS

Reads POM Theme's global custom stylesheet — the one that applies everywhere.

Arguments

None.

Permissions

mcp:read and pom_theme:read, plus edit_theme_options.

What it returns

Unlike pom_theme_get_settings_values, this tool resolves the file for you — no resolve_code_files option needed. It is the convenient shortcut for the one stylesheet people ask about most.

An empty content has two meanings

Either no global CSS has been written, or the file it points to is missing or unreadable.

file distinguishes them: an empty file means nothing was ever saved; a populated file with empty content means the file is gone. The second case matters — it means CSS the site expects to be applying is not.

Content is also returned empty if the path falls outside the settings directory, which is a safety check rather than a fault.

This is the whole stylesheet, and the write replaces it

pom_theme_update_global_css does not append. Whatever you send becomes the entire global stylesheet.

So this read is not optional before a write — it is the only copy of what would be lost:

Read the global CSS and show me all of it. I want to keep it before making a change.

Keep the response somewhere outside the conversation. There are no revisions for theme settings.

Global versus snippets

POM Theme has two places for custom CSS, and they behave differently:

If a site's custom styling is one long global stylesheet, every change rewrites all of it. Splitting it into snippets makes individual changes safer, and is worth suggesting before a large edit.

It is not the WordPress Customizer CSS

WordPress has its own Additional CSS, edited in the Customizer. That is a different store, POM AI does not read or write it, and CSS can be present in one and absent from the other.

If styling on the site does not appear in this response, check there. See Native custom CSS.

Nor is it the generated stylesheet

website.min.css is the compiled output that includes the theme's own styles plus your custom CSS. It is read with pom_theme_get_generated_css.

This tool reads your source; that one reads the build result. Diagnosing "my CSS is not applying" usually means comparing the two.

Using it well

Read the global CSS and summarise what it does.

Before an edit:

Read the global CSS, then show me the exact block you propose to change.

Common problems

Related

• pom_theme_update_global_css — replaces this entirely
• pom_theme_get_custom_css — the snippets
• pom_theme_get_generated_css — the compiled result