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I am fairly new to Wordpress theme development, and I'm trying to structure my code using the best practices possible In your opinion whats the better option to import javascript files:

OPTION 1

<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/anime.min.js"></script

OPTION 2

 wp_enqueue_script('some_script(s)');

in terms of loading time ?

Thanks in advance !

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  • Where in the page are you putting option 1? That's likely the only difference in load time, as option 2 will also generate a script tag but put it at the end of the page by default.
    – Rup
    Commented Jan 2, 2020 at 15:58
  • the option 1 was used in the footer.php
    – Pedro Ferreira
    Commented Jan 2, 2020 at 16:24
  • Then they should be equivalent. wp_enqueue_script will generate script tags where your footer.php calls wp_footer.
    – Rup
    Commented Jan 2, 2020 at 16:25

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Option 2. Option 1 is just flat out incorrect, not a valid alternative. The proper methods for loading CSS and JavaScript in WordPress are documented here. Also, there's no meaningful performance difference between the two.

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  • Okay, thank you
    – Pedro Ferreira
    Commented Jan 2, 2020 at 16:24
  • wp_enqueue script is only loading the first script file is that normal ???
    – Pedro Ferreira
    Commented Jan 2, 2020 at 16:51
  • I'm using it like this ` wp_enqueue_script('script', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/js/anime.min.js', false, '3.1.0');` for like 4 javascript files but only the first one is being loaded
    – Pedro Ferreira
    Commented Jan 2, 2020 at 16:54
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    Did you give them unique names? Please read the documentation I linked.
    – Jacob Peattie
    Commented Jan 2, 2020 at 17:22
  • Yes fixed it after reading it ;)
    – Pedro Ferreira
    Commented Jan 3, 2020 at 10:40

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