Title: Stylesheet action reference?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Stylesheet action reference?

 *  [James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamestl2/)
 * (@jamestl2)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-action-reference/)
 * I’ve been browsing the codex for awhile now and I haven’t noticed anything like
   that does this. I would’ve posted this in the WP-Advanced category, but didn’t
   have permission to.
 * Anyway, is there some sort of action reference that hooks into the current theme’s
   stylesheet to make changes based on what we’d want to include in a plugin?
 * Using this could allow us to insert custom CSS rules when we develop plugins.
   Say we wanted a user to choose a text size, color for the background, etc. Hooking
   directly into the stylesheet could easily allow plugin developers to implement
   user style preferences or requirements.
 * I’d figure it’d have a name something along the lines of ‘wp_stylesheet’ or whatever,
   but haven’t seen anything like it.

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 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-action-reference/#post-1458248)
 * You can’t have a php hook in a non-php file..
 * Nor can you simply inject extra code into a file..
 * If you want to add additional styling, it would need to be done as embedded/inline
   code, or in more simple terms CSS that is echoed/printed out into the head section
   of the document..
 * You can hook onto `wp_head` in such cases.
 *  Thread Starter [James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamestl2/)
 * (@jamestl2)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-action-reference/#post-1458314)
 * Alright, that’s what I had previously done.
 * I thought there was a more clean and efficient way other plugins normally add
   style to the pages, guess not.
 * Anyway, thanks.
 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-action-reference/#post-1458367)
 * There is of course one downside to hooking onto wp_head and that’s that the code
   would be called for every page, not just particular cases(for example: single
   post view).
 * If you’d like to expand on what it is you’re wanting to do, perhaps i can offer
   some further suggestions.
 *  Thread Starter [James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamestl2/)
 * (@jamestl2)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylesheet-action-reference/#post-1458383)
 * I was just wondering about the option for plugin development. I developed a simple
   plugin recently that created an options page and let blog owners select text 
   and background colors for their comments, so they wouldn’t have to edit the stylesheet
   directly.
 * I ended up just placing those new rules inside the wp_head as you described previously.

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