Timeline for How to make my shortcode load scripts and styles, from within the plugin?
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| Nov 28, 2020 at 12:54 | comment | added | Tom J Nowell♦ |
Bosco is right, either your plugin is a single PHP file in the plugins folder, or, it's a PHP file inside a subfolder that has other files it includes. I cannot be a mixture of the two. If you have a single file in the plugins folder, it cannot require/include files from a subfolder. This isn't about the code inside the files, this is about the location of the files themselves
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| Nov 27, 2020 at 14:27 | comment | added | bosco |
Tom's saying if your main plugin file was in the general plugins directory it would be incorrect - but your file structure does not meet this description. The path in plugins_url() needs to reference the main loaded plugin file. In this case, from the Shortcode.php file, that might look like plugins_url( 'Blocks/Pages/ShortcodeApi/ShortcodeScript.js', dirname( dirname( __DIR__ ) ) . '/Info-Wheel.php' ). Or you could expose Info-Wheel.php's path in a property or function, or pass it into the classes it constructs, etc.
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| Nov 27, 2020 at 13:13 | comment | added | Mähnenwolf |
How is the plugin folder structure wrong? I'm using OOP. Inside my Ìnfo-Wheel.php file I run a class function from Init:: register_services(), which runs all of the needed functions for my plugin. Everything works, besides having to figure out how to load the CSS/JS file. Here is an image to my folder structure. I tried running the add_action(), to enqueue my files, but still nothing.
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| Nov 27, 2020 at 13:01 | comment | added | Tom J Nowell♦ |
it has to be the main plugin PHP file, aka the file with the plugin header at the top that WP loads first. Note that this is assuming your plugin is a PHP file in a subfolder e.g. wp-content/plugins/yourplugin/plugin.php. If your plugin is a file in the plugins folder that loads more files from a subfolder then that needs changing as the plugin folder structure is incorrect. As for your shortcode, that looks better
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| Nov 27, 2020 at 12:28 | comment | added | Mähnenwolf |
So I now use the correct pathing for wp_register_script/style(), but it still doesn't do anything. Where do I write code so the style is being loaded?
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| Nov 27, 2020 at 11:49 | comment | added | Mähnenwolf |
1. The shortcode file is inside thisfolder: MyPlugin\Blocks\Pages\ShortcodeAPI\Shortcode.php Inside MyPLugin is MyPlugin.php. So does this mean, __FILE__ has to be the name of the main file, or would be the root enough? 2. I now wrote php public function layout() : string { ob_start(); require $this->iw_plugin_path . "URL"; return ob_get_clean(); } That should be correct, then.
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| Nov 27, 2020 at 11:08 | history | answered | Tom J Nowell♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |