Correct use of wp_enqueue

  • Resolved swisspenelope

    (@swisspenelope)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    Hi

    I use a plugin called EventON (and I have been in extensive touch with their devs on how to do this), and I have made a custom stylesheet because I don’t like their styling. In my functions.php file, I have dequeued the plugin styles (3 of them) and enqueued a new stylesheet in my Child Theme’s directory. According the plugin devs, my dequeueing is fine.

    I enqueue my custom stylesheet thus:

    function enqueue_custom_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style('eventon-custom-styles', get_template_directory_uri() . "/eventON_custom.css"  . '	', array(), '', 'all');
}

add_action(  'wp_enqueue_style', 'enqueue_custom_styles'  );

    Should I perhaps add something that forces it to load after the other styles queued in my functions.php?

    Thanks in advance!
    SwissP

    PS You can see that the page has not loaded at all. It was loading perfectly perfectly before these queuing changes.

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  • You can see in the Code Reference that there is a dependency parameter.
    https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/wp_enqueue_style/
    You put the handle name of the style sheet that your styles depend upon, so that yours are loaded after them.
    And you used
    get_template_directory_uri() . "/eventON_custom.css" . ' '
    for your style URI, but that function will return the parent theme’s URI. If it is in your child theme, you should use
    get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/eventON_custom.css'

    Thread Starter swisspenelope

    (@swisspenelope)

    Excellent! Thanks so much!

    Thread Starter swisspenelope

    (@swisspenelope)

    Just one more question rather than opening a new post:

    I find the instructions in my parent theme’s stylesheet (style.css) are coming through even though my child theme’s style.css overrides them, so would it be safe to just either get rid of parent style.css (although this throws an error in the console, obviously) OR alternatively, just wp_enqueue the child style – plus my custom plugin styles – rather than doing the wp_enqueue with first parent (in template directory) then child (using stylesheet directory)?

    Thank you.

    The child theme loads before the parent theme.
    Two calls to wp_enqueue_style with the same handle will result in the second call being ignored.
    The dependency parameter dictates the order of loading, in addition to the priority of the action and the order of the calls with the same priority.

    So, you didn’t show all your enqueue code, but if you used the same handle for the parent style sheet as the parent did, the parent one is ignored. If you used a different handle, the style sheet will be loaded twice.

    Given all this, go to your page and use the browser View Source tool to see the HTML of the page. Look at the order that the style sheets are coming out, or if the parent one is in there twice. Adjust accordingly.

    Thread Starter swisspenelope

    (@swisspenelope)

    Hi Joy,

    I didn’t use the same handle for parent and child stylesheets, but I’m embarrassed to say that there was another stupid bug in there, which was why it was not behaving as expected! Found and corrected.

    Thanks so much for your explanations.
    Best
    Swissp

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by swisspenelope.
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