Set Specific Stylesheets for Pages

Posted on October 26, 2009 and last modified on October 28th, 2009.

In the functions.php file there is a small bit of code which looks something like the following:

// ALLOW THE USE OF ONE OR MORE STYLE SHEETS
// http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/07/27/contextually-changing-your-themes-stylesheet
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
add_filter( 'stylesheet_uri', 'my_stylesheet', 10, 2 );

function my_stylesheet( $stylesheet_uri, $stylesheet_dir_uri ) {

	if ( is_page( 'aboutpage' ) )
		$stylesheet_uri = $stylesheet_dir_uri . '/style-about.css';
	elseif ( is_page( 'archivespage' ) )
		$stylesheet_uri = $stylesheet_dir_uri . '/style-archives.css';

	return $stylesheet_uri;
}

This allows you to set different styles on any of the pages. To do this, all you need to do is change the page names set above, i.e. ‘aboutpage’ and ‘archivespage’ to the names of your pages that you wish to change the style. You can have as many changes as you like and you only need to save the style sheets with the same name, again using the example above, i.e. ‘style-about.css’ and ‘style-archives.css

Difficulty Level: Easy

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