It's still better, even from a performance perspective, to output it directly in the document head.<div><br></div><div>(And most of the file-operation methods used to do such file-writing require PHP functions that are prohibited in repository-hosted Themes.)<br>
<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Tony Crockford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tonyc@boldfish.co.uk">tonyc@boldfish.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 7 May 2011, at 17:10, Otto wrote:<br>
> Writing a file is noticeably worse in performance than simply writing<br>
> them to the header, as in wp_head.<br>
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</div>I meant writing it once and linking to it, so it could be cached by the browser.<br>
<br>
and then overwriting it if the admin changed the values.<br>
<br>
Thus eliminating any database requests to find the css values, if you see what I mean.<br>
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