Calling Dashicons

[Len]

I am curious about something. What is the preferred method for incorporating Dashicons in a child theme?

Method #1

wp_enqueue_style( 'prefix-dashicons-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri(), array('dashicons'), '1.0' );

Method #2

wp_enqueue_style( 'dashicons' );

I ask because when using the former, the child theme style.css file ends up being called twice while the latter results in the css file bundled with WordPress (in the wp-includes folder) to be called.

I suspect Method #2 is the preferred?

[Ozzy]

Method #2 would be the preferred choice, imo.

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[Len]

That's what I'm thinking. I'm still refining my skills and want to do things the right way. 🙂

[Ozzy]

Aren't we all?? 🙂

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[Victor Font]

Dashicons are loaded automatically by WordPress. There's no reason to reload them in a child theme. Also, in the first method, you don't have the path to the css file. The array is a dependency that means don't load this file until dashicons is loaded. The fact that you are using a function to the stylesheet directory is telling the code to load style.css.

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