[theme-reviewers] wp_enqueue_script

[Andrew Nacin]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Austin Matzko <austin at pressedcode.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
> > But, what we really need is what the official best-practice suggestion
> will
> > be, for the purposes of the Guidelines. We need to ensure that all
> reviewers
> > will be making consistent suggestions with respect to wp_enqueue_script()
> > within functions.php.
>
> It's really a range depending on what you're trying to do: before init
> is too early; default wp_head is too late.
>
> I would strongly recommend that front-end scripts not be enqueued in
> the admin, so that means checking that is_admin() returns false if a
> front-end conditional "tag" like is_singular() isn't already used.


The point is, before init is too early, but on init means it'll show up in
the admin.
Hence template_redirect is a good option, as that is enough to ensure it
only
gets enqueued for the frontend, with no is_admin() check required.
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