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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes Adding CSS to a Theme Via the functions.php File

Ananda Johnson
Ananda Johnson
5,771 Points
Posted by Ananda Johnson
Ananda Johnson
5,771 Points

Why do I have to enqueue the main css file?

I thought that got handled automatically, why do we need to do that in the function.php?

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I don't think wordpress adds any css files to the theme by default - this way you can control the source order just as you need it. I think the only thing it does is automatically pick up the style.css file as part of the requirements for a valid wordpress theme, but it doesn't actually bring that file into the source code, unless you do it.

Ananda Johnson
Ananda Johnson
5,771 Points
Ananda Johnson
Ananda Johnson
5,771 Points

Oh I see, so it just reads that meta information at the top but doesn't bring the css in there into the source code? Thanks!!