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.
All of the plugins I have written have a settings page in the admin dashboard, either for settings to be configured or for instructions on how to use the plugin. I often have an admin stylesheet which needs to be loaded on the settings page. 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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