Permalinks and CSS

  • Resolved mtibbits

    (@mtibbits)


    17 years, 4 months ago

    I am having an issue where my CSS file for my theme is not loaded when using Permalinks.

    When I change back to the default Permalink structure all pages work fine.

    This IS when I’m working with Pages and NOT posts.

    I created a custom Permalink and used /%pagename%. This works for first level pages. Ex. website.com/about-us.

    However, if I have a 2nd level page that is a child of the first, it again shows the page, without any CSS formatting. Ex. website.com/about-us/annual-report.

    Can anybody help with this at all? I have a bit of a complicated navigation system for this site, and this will be much easier with Permalinks instead of using the page IDs.

    Thanks,

    Matt

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  • Doodlebee

    (@doodlebee)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    sounds like you’re using relative paths to call in your CSS files. That won’t work. Of course, guessing what the issue is doesn’t help much either. it would help a lot more if you’d provide a link to the site in question.

    Thread Starter mtibbits

    (@mtibbits)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    I am using relative paths…can I not do this?

    I have everything on a local testing server for now so I don’t have a link to the site. If need be I will upload later this evening.

    Doodlebee

    (@doodlebee)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    >>I am using relative paths…can I not do this? <<

    if you do, this is what will happen.

    You forget that WordPress is a system that uses includes to call things in from different areas. If you have it working with a relative path on one page, then when you go another level down, it won’t work anymore – because the relative path you’re using doesn’t change. I.e. “../images” won’t change to “../../images” just because you go in a level deeper. Your header in an included file – it’s the same across ALL pages.

    So no, don’t do that. Use the full path:

    <?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/rest of the path here

    If it’s just to your stylesheet, you should have the stylesheet path in there:

    <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>

    Thread Starter mtibbits

    (@mtibbits)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    Ok, I used:

    <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>

    for my default stylesheet and it is working. One last question is: how do I then link to my print and my IE only stylesheets? They are in the same location, but have a different name than the default style sheet.

    Thread Starter mtibbits

    (@mtibbits)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    Sorry, I guess you already answered that with:

    <?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/rest of the path here

    Thank you very much for your help!

    Matt

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