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WordPress

Posted by farhanasalman
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farhanasalman
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,830 Points

What is meant by wp_enqueue_style and wp_enqueue_script? Please help me!

I really don't understand this code (see below) in functions.php for wordpress themes development. Can you please kindly more detail?

<?php

function wpt_theme_styles() {

    wp_enqueue_style( 'foundation_css', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/founation.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'normalize_css', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/normalize.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'normalize_css', 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Asap:400,700,400italic,700italic' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'main_css', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );

}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts','wpt_theme_styles');

function wpt_theme_js() {

    wp_enqueue_script('modernizr_js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/modernizr.js','', '', false);
    wp_enqueue_script('foundation_js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/foundation.js', array('jquery'), '', true);
    wp_enqueue_script('main_js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/app.js', array('jquery', 'foundation_js'), '', true);

}
add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpt_theme_js');

?>

1 Answer

Lydia Roberts
Lydia Roberts
3,535 Points
Lydia Roberts
Lydia Roberts
3,535 Points

These two functions will output links to styles and scripts to all your WordPress pages. If you view the source code of your WordPress site, you should see all these styles and scripts listed out in this order. For example this line:

wp_enqueue_style( 'googlefont_css', 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Asap:400,700,400italic,700italic' );

would output to this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Asap:400,700,400italic,700italic" type="text/css"/>

An alternative would be to just include the html links to styles and scripts inside your header.php. However this is not necessarily the recommended way. From what I've come to understand it is considered better in most cases to use the first (enqueuing) method.

farhanasalman
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farhanasalman
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,830 Points

Thanks for quick response Lydia. Okay I understand little bit. :)