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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes How to Link to JS from functions.php File

Gary Calhoun
Gary Calhoun
10,317 Points
Posted by Gary Calhoun
Gary Calhoun
10,317 Points

Is the $handle like a variable?

I thought that the handle had to be named just like file but he named the handle main_js and its referencing the app.js I realized this was not true, so am thinking now that a wordpress $handle can be whatever you want it to be, and you can call upon it further into your coding?

1 Answer

Joe Hartman
Joe Hartman
20,881 Points

As I understand it, I would say no. You're not really passing it a value. It's more like an identifier pointing to a resource, sort of like a username on a message board. I think you can name it whatever you like but it's probably easier to remember what it's pointing to if the name is similar.

Anthony Attard
Anthony Attard
43,915 Points
Anthony Attard
Anthony Attard
43,915 Points

To expand on that the difference between an "identifier pointing to a resource" and a variable is that you can use variables in functions.