Title: Newbie : Enqueue stylesheet.
Last modified: August 30, 2016
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# Newbie : Enqueue stylesheet.
* [Rob Stocki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/getwebmaxcom_wporg/)
* (@getwebmaxcom_wporg)
* [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-enqueue-stylesheet/)
* I am a PHP programmer, new to wordpress.
* I am used to building my own CMS systems and web applications. I thought I’d
try wordpress for a variety of reasons. Despite being a PHP expert, I have found
trying to learn wordpress to be extremely difficult and frustrating.
* Here is one of many examples:
* 1. I am used to creating applications where I include(‘functions.php’); I tried
this in the header.php script and it turns out wordpress automatically includes
the functions.php file. WHERE IS THAT DOCUMENTED? From the tutorials, it seems
that the only files required for a theme to work are index.php and style.css.
Apparently functions.php is automatically included?
* So, getting to the point, it seems I have to learn the wordpress conventions –
baptism by fire. Fine.
* Now I am frustrated because I don’t see how to do even the simplest of things
that are supposed to work “simply”.
* After many hours of wasted time and trying / failing to load a stylesheet perhaps
someone can help.
* Here is my index.php file:
* `
*
*
* I can see the stylesheet is properly referenced. That’s who I’m echoing get_stylesheet_uri();
* My stylesheet contains the following:
* `/*
Theme Name: Test Theme Theme URI: http://themeshaper.com/ Author: ThemeShaper
Author URI: http://themeshaper.com/ Description: The Shape theme is a simple,
minimalist theme based on Underscores and the original Shape Theme by Ian Stewart.
It was created especially as a learning theme for The ThemeShaper WordPress Theme
Tutorial: 2nd Edition. Version: 2.0 License: GNU General Public License License
URI: license.txt Tags: light, white, one-column, two-columns, left-sidebar, right-
sidebar, flexible-width, custom-backgroud, custom-header, custom-menu, featured-
images, flexible-header, microformats, post-formats, rtl-language-support, threaded-
comments, translation-ready This theme, like WordPress, is licensed under the
GPL. Use it to make something cool, have fun, and share what you've learned with
others. */
* body {
background-color:#999; }
* header {
font-size:24px; }
* Should be simple enough.
* Here is the header.php file :
`
* Theme
*
*
I am the header
* suffice to say the html markup is correct for the site.
* In the head, if i include:
`` I am able to get the stylesheet to work.
* If I remove the above stylesheet reference, because I’m told the correct way
to include a stylesheet is to enqueue it, and try the “correct way”, I cannot
get the stylesheet to work.
* Here’s my code in the functions.php file:
* `function mycssScript() {
// Load our main stylesheet. wp_enqueue_style( 'style',
get_stylesheet_uri() ); } add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'mycssScript' );
* The above is the latest attempt. I have tried numerous sites and turorials and
examples and nothing is working.
* Am I doing something wrong? –Please help 🙁
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* [Sean Davis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdavis2702/)
* (@sdavis2702)
* [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-enqueue-stylesheet/#post-6312962)
* Hi there. I can try to help here as I am fairly new to WordPress development
myself but have experience teaching some of the more basic WordPress things.
* The first thing to note is that while WordPress may recognize certain files automatically,
that doesn’t mean they are required. WordPress just knows to look for certain
file names and if they exist, do something with them. If they don’t exist, keep
on moving. You’ll see a lot of that in the WordPress Template Hierarchy. [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/)
* Your function hooked into wp_enqueue_scripts actually looks good so I can’t see
any reason why it wouldn’t work. You don’t see the stylesheet referenced in your
header at all with that code? Even after clearing your cache?
* I feel like the best place to start with theming in WordPress is the [Underscores starter theme](https://github.com/automattic/_s).
It’s nothing to look at but its structure is everything. I built a free course
that helps developers understand WordPress theming and I used Underscores in
all of my examples. I’m not sure if I am supposed to post links here but I’m
genuinely trying to help. Here’s the course. [http://buildwpyourself.com/topic/how-to-build-a-wordpress-theme/](http://buildwpyourself.com/topic/how-to-build-a-wordpress-theme/)
* I would highly suggest learning WP theming by tweaks before creating. Creating
everything in a theme from scratch would be a waste of time in my opinion as
many of the templates are almost identical and many of the functions will be
the same each time you build a theme. Underscores is based very closely on the
default WordPress themes and when you can see it all in action “properly,” you
should be able to get a much faster understanding.
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