[theme-reviewers] Theme Scan Failing

[Simon Prosser]

There is a more sensible way to do this. Use a style.php file that
prints your custom css
with text/css header and a far future expires, then the browser will
cache it locally.

My theme [JustCSS] uses this to cache the css.
https://github.com/Pross/JustCSS

On 2 December 2010 17:46, Sayontan Sinha <sayontan at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about instances of caching? E.g. I have a lot of look and feel options
> that can be set by the user. However if you attempt to print them out as
> dynamic CSS on the fly it creates extra server load, not to mention an ugly
> lot of CSS before the content in the page's source. Instead the CSS is saved
> as a local file at the time of saving the options and then that file is
> linked in the source.
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Sayontan Sinha <sayontan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I am curious as to what qualifies as a better way of doing things. E.g.
>> > I
>> > have code where depending on selections certain stylesheets are grouped
>> > together, then either they are compressed and/or minified.
>>
>> See, that sounds awfully functional to me. Why would you want the
>> theme to be doing that?
>>
>> A theme is supposed to describe how the site looks, not how the site
>> works. Sure, for custom jobs, we all do it and put this sort of thing
>> in the theme, but remember that the directory is supposed to hold
>> themes to be used for public consumption. Anybody can use them.
>>
>> So doesn't it make a bit more sense to make this sort of
>> compression/minification more generic, able to apply to any theme, and
>> then to put it in a plugin?
>>
>> Also, look into wp_enqueue_style, which is capable of minification and
>> combining css files.
>>
>> -Otto
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