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Evan Fraser
Evan Fraser
6,789 Points
Posted by Evan Fraser
Evan Fraser
6,789 Points

How to enqueue custom wordpress theme styles in wordpress admin theme options page

I am building a wordpress theme and I am trying to enqueue styles in the same fashion that I did for my custom wordpress plugin, i am just not sure how.

I did it in my plugin fine but I dont know how to for my theme, its super frustrating, I just cant figure it out. Right now i have them inline inside my functions for my theme but thats just annoying. Anyone have any help for me on this? Im new to php and php for wordpress too by the way.

here is what i did in my plugin (I want to do the same thing for my theme): 

function hawp_media_options_styles () {
    wp_enqueue_style ( 'hawp_media_options_styles', plugins_url( 'hawp-optimize/hawp-optimize-style.css' ) );
}
add_action ('admin_head', 'hawp_media_options_styles' );

1 Answer

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

I think you'll need to review your path to the css folder in your theme. here is a solid place to start looking how to debug your issue. If you have any questions please ask.

Evan Fraser
Evan Fraser
6,789 Points
Evan Fraser
Evan Fraser
6,789 Points

I still am unable to figure out the right function to add in my theme functions.php to style to my theme options page and also a few other things throughout the wordpress admin.

Inside my theme I have a css folder then hawp-theme-admin.css which has all my intended admin styles. If you can give me an example that would be great

Thanks so far!

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

There are two possible answers. you need to use either get_stylesheet_directory_uri(), or get_template_directory_uri

codex

In this case depending on the set up of your theme it's going to be one or the other. In the future try and use the dev WordPress code reference. It is linked above.