[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24595: Twenty Thirteen: Load Genericons in a More Plugin-friendly Way

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#24595: Twenty Thirteen: Load Genericons in a More Plugin-friendly Way
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 Reporter:  celloexpressions  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Bundled Theme     |    Version:
 Severity:  normal            |   Keywords:
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 Genericons are a useful tool for plugins, but it is currently difficult to
 use them in a plugin in an efficient way. It would be nice if Twenty
 Thirteen loaded them in a way that would both play nicely with plugins
 that want to use them and set a standard for how plugins should load them.

 I came up with a couple of options:
 - Package Genericons directly with WordPress, instead of bundled through
 Twenty Thirteen, and register as a style in core
 ({{{wp_register_style()}}}), then {{{wp_enqueue_style('genericons')}}} in
 both Twenty Thirteen and plugins. Plugins could also package Genericons if
 targeting WordPress <3.6. The loaded stylesheet would just contain the
 {{{@font-face}}} declaration. But having Genericons available directly in
 core wouldn't be as appropriate as, for example, having Dashicons
 available (for front-end use) would be.
 - Move the {{{@font-face}}} declaration to its own file and load it with
 {{{wp_register/enqueue_style()}}}. Plugins could check for Genericons with
 {{{wp_style_is()}}} and load them if necessary, which would decrease the
 potential to load from multiple places. This would establish a "correct"
 method for loading Genericons in plugins and at least provide the tools to
 avoid duplicate declarations, but could be messier to implement in
 plugins.

 Both methods have advantages and disadvantages, and there are probably
 additional possibilities, but I think we should do something a bit more
 standardized than the current setup (loading Genericons from the main
 {{{style.css}}} file).

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