I have seen some themes that css is loaded otherwise. for example: What is the better Right Way? what's the difference? thanks in advance

The correct way is to call all of your styles in functions.php with wpenquestyle (https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_enqueue_style/). This makes code much easier to manage as your site grows and allows you to handle dependencies when necessary. Hope this helps.

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Posted June 19, 2016 10:44am by

Loading CSS Into WordPress. another way? I have seen some themes that css is loaded otherwise

I have seen some themes that css is loaded otherwise. for example: <link href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');?>/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">

What is the better Right Way? what's the difference? thanks in advance

June 20, 2016 9:02pm

This seems counter-intuitive to how Wordpress handles the loading of styles. Realistically this approach can work, but I wouldn't call it the correct way to load styles into your theme.

Instead, from what I've seen, the most accepted method for loading styles, as well as scripts, into a Wordpress theme is by use of the wp_enqueue_style() function (or the wp_enqueue_script() function for scripts). Using this method will ensure that your styles and scripts do not have any compatibility issues that might be occur from the scripts that any plugins on your site might also load.

Here's a bit more documentation on the correct method for loading styles into a Wordpress theme.

https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/including-css-javascript/

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June 20, 2016 10:15pm

The correct way is to call all of your styles in functions.php with wp_enque_style. This makes code much easier to manage as your site grows and allows you to handle dependencies when necessary.

Hope this helps.

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