[wp-hackers] Re: Plugins & CSS, embeded vs linking

[Joost de Valk]

On Jul 14, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Aaron Brazell wrote:

> What's wrong with wp_head? That's a standard hook in the header. Of  
> course,
> there's nothing that enforces a theme developer put the wp_head()  
> function
> before the closing </head> but most do I think.
>
> function plugin_css()
> {
>  echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="' . ABSPATH .
> '/wp-content/plugin/your-very-nice-plugin/customstyle.css"  
> type="text/css"
> />';
> }
> add_action('wp_head','plugin_css');
>

I know that's what I do, get's you multiple linked files though... If  
there were a mechanism in which you could add some css, and that would  
ALL be added to 1 big css file, that'd save a couple of includes. But  
anyway, Jonathan had a problem with it, I don't :)

Cheers,
Joost



> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Joost de Valk  
> <joost at joostdevalk.nl> wrote:
>
>> if there were a way to make an action hook, with which you could  
>> add some
>> css... But that would mean having a PHP generated style sheet  
>> somewhere...
>>
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>> On Jul 14, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Jonathan Dingman wrote:
>>
>> Joost,
>>>
>>> Ah, gotcha.  So, that said, it's laziness, yes I realize that.  But,
>>> is there a standard we might be able to impose so that this doesn't
>>> happen?  Maybe even something within the WP Core for plugin devs to
>>> utilize?
>>>
>>> I just feel there has to be a better way to do it than how it's
>>> currently being done...
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Jonathan Dingman
>>>
>>> http://www.ginside.com
>>> http://www.wordcampny.org - Oct 5th, 2008
>>>
>>> Are you following? http://www.twitter.com/dingman
>>>
>>> On Jul 14, 1:34 pm, Joost de Valk <jo... at joostdevalk.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sociable adds a stylesheet, and doesn't even do that by default...
>>>> Easy enough to code... Just laziness on the Plugin writers side.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Joost
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPod, optimized for short messages, not for prose
>>>>
>>>> http://yoast.com/http://twitter.com/jdevalk
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 14, 2008, at 19:29, "Jonathan Dingman" <jding... at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Time after time, I get more annoyed with plugins forcing me to  
>>>> embed
>>>>> CSS.
>>>>> There ought to be a way to easily offer an option to link to a
>>>>> stylesheet
>>>>> rather than forcing me to embed the CSS.
>>>>> Even offering an option to "disable embedded CSS" and I'll add it
>>>>> myself,
>>>>> even that would be fine.  but it seems like every plugin that  
>>>>> uses CSS
>>>>> forces uses to embed CSS, or nearly every plugin.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> anyone else have thoughts on this subject?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan Dingman
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ginside.com
>>>>> http://www.nextwebonline.com
>>>>> http://www.wordcampny.org- Oct 5th, 2008
>>>>>
>>>>
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