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1. AndySpartan
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi there,

   I want to enqueue some scripts and styles on the 'init' action, but only if a certain condition is met i.e the user is viewing a category page with an ID of 12. I've tried a couple of things to get it to work but am having no luck :( Below is some sample code from my functions.php file:

   function the_quote_files() {
     if(is_category(12)) {
       wp_enqueue_script(<args here);
       ... more scripts and styles ...
     }
   }
   add_action('init','the_quote_files');

   I just can't seem to get it to fire, I've also tried using get_query_var('cat') to no avail.

   My only guess as to why it isn't working is when the 'init' action is happening, no data has been processed.

   Does anyone know how I can get the scripts to load only when the user is viewing a certain category archive page?

   Thanks, Andy

2. AndySpartan
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ok I posted too soon, just found out how to do it if anybody else is interested..instead of hooking on to init just hook on to wp_head like so:

   add_action('wp_head','the_quote_files',0);

3. Chip Bennett
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You should enqueue front-end scripts using the wp_print_scripts hook, rather than the wp_head hook. Otherwise, you figured it out!

   (The init hook is too soon, I think, to perform conditionals based on $post data.)

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