May 15, 2018
Hey Developer,
If you are new to WordPress and you want to add your style.css to your theme FAST, then this guide is for you!
Normally you would use the <link> tag inside index.php or header.php:
<head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"> </head>
However in WordPress, the correct way to do it is using a file called functions.php
All this file needs to contain is:
function whatever_name_u_want(){ wp_enqueue_style('style', get_stylesheet_uri()); } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'whatever_name_u_want');
YOU DO NOT NEED to use the <link> tag inside <head> in order to link your style.css
At the very minimum your file hierarchy would then be:
Whatevertheme/functions.php
Whatevertheme/style.css
Whatevertheme/index.php
If you wanted to keep your working directory nice and neat you would want to keep your other css files inside your theme like so: Whatevertheme/assets/css/otherSS.css
You will then use the following line of code instead:
wp_enqueue_style( 'otherSS', get_template_directory_uri() . '/assets/css/otherSS.css');