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Chandan K. Sah
Courses Plus Student 12,665 PointsHow to add javascript file to wordpress?
I am trying to develop my own wordpress theme but stuck on a problem, it seems that the my js file is linked with my page but somehow its not doing anything. Someone Suggest me a way to make it work.
2 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsWhen you say it's not doing anything, that could be really one of three main things.
1) The JS file is being included in the source code correctly. You can use your dev tools to verify that pretty easily.
2) Your JS file has a error, or otherwise isn't configured correctly to do what you want it to do. This would be an error that would have nothing to do with WP, but just the JS file itself.
3) The order of your JS files are wrong. For instance, are you bringing in a JS file that relys on jQuery, before jQuery is included on the page? Source order is important.
Try tracking down those three possibilities first, and we can go from there.
Mina Qubaisi
2,278 Pointsfunction theme_enqueue_scripts() {
wp_register_script('script-name', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/example.js', array(), '1.0.0', true );
wp_enqueue_script( 'script-name' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_scripts' );
Chandan K. Sah
Courses Plus Student 12,665 PointsI already added the file using those wp tags but its not working, I added those codes in my functions.php file.