Wordpress stylesheet isn't being added

Question

I have recently started to learn WordPress and after learning how to use it at basic level I immediately started to learn how to develop templates since this is what interested me from the start when I started to learn it.

I am reading WordPress 3 Complete and at Chapter 6 the book guides you to develop your first basic theme. The only problem is that it seems that my theme is not taking the style sheet. I have tried to use:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/> 

and

<style type="text/css">@import url("style.css");</style>

None of them seem to get the style on the page. What should I do?

Answer 1

You have to make sure WordPress finds the directory where your theme is. There is a useful function doing all the work for you: bloginfo().

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ); ?>" />

Answer 2

Alternately, you can enqueue the style in your functions.php file (this is my new preference):

wp_enqueue_style( 'style_css', get_stylesheet_uri(), false );