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Posted by Matt Van Dyck
Matt Van Dyck
2,033 Points

Linking CSS/Javascript

Hi there. I can't seem to link my flexslider css or js file correctly in the wordpress theme tutorial. Here is the code I have in my functions.php file. I don't know why it isn't linking correctly?

// Load the Theme CSS
    function theme_styles() {
            wp_enqueue_style( 'normalize', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/normalize.css');
        wp_enqueue_style( 'grid', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/style.css');
        wp_enqueue_style( 'googlefonts', 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?        family=Sorts+Mill+Goudy:400,400italic');
        wp_enqueue_style( 'main', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css');
        wp_enqueue_style( 'social', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/webfonts/ss-social.css');

    wp_register_style( 'flexslider', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/flexslider.css');
    if( is_page('home')) {
        wp_enqueue_style( 'flexslider' );
    }
}

function theme_js() {
    wp_register_script( 'flexslider' , get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/flexslider.js', array('jquery'), '', true );
    if( is_page('home')) {
        wp_enqueue_script( 'flexslider' );
    }

}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_js' );

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_styles');

//Enable custom menus
add_theme_support( 'menus' );
Matt Van Dyck
Matt Van Dyck
2,033 Points

Hi there. I actually replaced the functions.php file with the one given in the documentation and my source still does not show the flexslider loading?

3 Answers

Zac Gordon
STAFF
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi!

Try changing is_page('home') to is_front_page() and see if that helps.

Matt Van Dyck
Matt Van Dyck
2,033 Points
Matt Van Dyck
Matt Van Dyck
2,033 Points

I appreciate your response, that worked perfectly! But I am failing to understand why that worked over the is_page

Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

If your URL slug for is equal to home it will work. If its something like homepage it won't :)

I'm guessing that was the issue.

Luke Lee
Luke Lee
7,577 Points
Luke Lee
Luke Lee
7,577 Points

Thank you Zac. I had the same problem, How to check the url slug?