This post is part of the ClassicPress Plugin Development series in which I am going to look at both best practice for developing plugins and how I approach some requirements as well as some of the functions I commonly use.
Virtually all of the plugins I have written have output to the front end of a site, usually through use of shortcodes. As there is front end output, I have needed to create a stylesheet which means the plugin needs to load it. There is two ways in which stylesheets can be loaded in a plugin; I will cover them both, but will note first of all that I typically use the second approach. There is an argument that the first approach is the “correct” one.
The first thing to do when you are loading a stylesheet is to register it. This is done using the wp_register_style function which ClassicPress provides.
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