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1. haradeep
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   TEMPLATEPATH or template_url?

   What is the main difference between these two?

   I'm bit confused.

2. Digital Raindrops
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   TEMPLATEPATH this is the physical path within the themes folder, to load a file called theme options.

   if (file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH .'/theme-options.php')) include(TEMPLATEPATH .'/theme-options.php');

   Where get_template_directory_uri() can be used to register a custom stylesheet or load a header image at runtime, this is for the HTML rendering and will require the URL

   wp_register_style( 'mycustomstyle', get_template_directory_uri() .'/styles/buckingham.css', '', '0.1' );
   wp_enqueue_style( 'customstyle' );

   This would load the stylesheet at runtime, here is an example where you can see the url for a custom stylesheet, you can see both examples here.

   <link rel='stylesheet' id='customstyle-css'  href='http://theme.digitalraindrops.net/wp-content/themes/raindrops-magazine/styles/buckingham.css?ver=0.1' type='text/css' media='all' />

   For a child theme files that are not in the parent!
   STYLESHEETPATH and get_stylesheet_directory_uri()

   HTH

   David

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