Posts tagged: styles

Adding JavaScript and CSS files to a WordPress site through direct <script> and <link> tags hard-coded into a theme template is one of the most common mistakes made by developers coming to WordPress from static HTML or non-CMS backgrounds. It works on the surface, but it bypasses the entire WordPress asset management system and creates…

In HTML5 the type attribute on <script> and <style> tags is redundant — text/javascript and text/css are the defaults. The W3C Markup Validator raises a warning for every such attribute, and older versions of WordPress and some plugins still output them. You can strip them with an output buffer filter.