[wp-hackers] Loading scripts in WordPress

Haluk Karamete halukkaramete at gmail.com
Tue Dec 10 22:20:10 UTC 2013


>> you can simply call wp_enqueue_script() inside your shortcode
callback, which will ensure that your scripts only get enqueued when the
shortcode is parsed.

That's interesting Chip. I thought that would have been too late.
Isn't it that when the "the_content()" is running, wp_head action hook has
already been executed?


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Dave Navarro <dave at topekadesign.com>wrote:

> Thank you for your quick response.  I'll take a look at that.
>
>
> On 12/10/2013 2:22 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
>
>> Shortcodes are parsed at the the_content filter.
>>
>> That said: you can simply call wp_enqueue_script() inside your shortcode
>> callback, which will ensure that your scripts only get enqueued when the
>> shortcode is parsed.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Dave Navarro <dave at topekadesign.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  At what point does WordPress process short codes in content?
>>>
>>> I have a short-code I created for displaying a custom Google map and I
>>> only want to load the necessary javascript files if the short-code is
>>> used
>>> on a page.  Are short-codes processed before the headers are sent to the
>>> browser or after?
>>>
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