[theme-reviewers] Need clarification on guidelines

Tue Sep 30 08:28:03 UTC 2014

Why are "Themes may *optionally* link the default stylesheet (style.css)
directly in the document head"?

On 30 September 2014 10:07, Michael Hebenstreit <michael at mhthemes.com>
wrote:

> Hi Otto,
>
> thanks for the clarification. That’s actually what I also meant with my
> answer. I thought that doing it with the function is the only correct way.
> I was not aware that the guideline says that you can also add the
> stylesheet manually to the header.php. I also don’t think that it’s good to
> have this as a guideline as some novice authors may think that’s it’s a
> good approach to just load stuff in header.php instead of using a hook
> properly.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> Am 30.09.2014 um 09:00 schrieb Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>:
>
> It would be best to say that that approach is allowed, but doing it with
> enqueue is probably somewhat better form.
>
> If you examine Twenty Fourteen, you'll see that it has a function in the
> functions.php file called twentyfourteen_scripts(). This function is
> hooked to the "wp_enqueue_scripts" action hook, and it loads all the
> various scripts and styles and such
>
> One of those styles is the main stylesheet, determined by
> get_stylesheet_url(). It adds that stylesheet like this:
>
> wp_enqueue_style( 'twentyfourteen-style', get_stylesheet_uri(), array(
> 'genericons' ) );
>
> Note that it also declares the main theme stylesheet dependent on the
> genericons stylesheet as well, to ensure that that stylesheet is also
> loaded.
>
> Having your stylesheets declared like this and enqueued can make them
> easier to organize and reference, especially if your theme is complex.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> no problem :)
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 30, 2014, Michael Hebenstreit <michael at mhthemes.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good to know - thanks for the link. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 30.09.2014 um 07:48 schrieb Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me>:
>>>
>>> Sorry but the correct answer is yes
>>> https://make.wordpress.org/themes/handbook/guidelines/template-tags-and-hooks/#including-stylesheets-and-scripts
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, September 30, 2014, Michael Hebenstreit <
>>> michael at mhthemes.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> no, you should enqueue stylesheets like this:
>>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_style
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 30.09.2014 um 07:39 schrieb mudthemes support <contact at mudthemes.com
>>>> >:
>>>>
>>>> > I have created a theme and have put stylesheet (style.css) into the
>>>> <head> section of header.php using the following code:
>>>> >
>>>> > <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo get_stylesheet_uri() ?>"
>>>> type="text/css" media="all" />
>>>> > <?php wp_head(); ?>
>>>> > </head>
>>>> >
>>>> > The question is that whether this is prohibited or is it okay?
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