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Integrating Alternative Stylesheets in WordPress Themes

I am sure that everyone has come across WordPress themes which use alternative stylesheets (CSS) to switch between different sets of style information. For example, you can have a look at the following themes that have this functionality :-

• Xplosive Reloaded
• Wicked Lemon
• Wpdesigner7

Here is how these themes do it :-

Default Stylesheet

Ideally, every WordPress theme has a style.css file associated with it that contains all the style information for the theme. This default stylesheet is usually called in the header.php file of your WordPress theme by something like this :-

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

Rel=”stylesheet” is what defines the active stylesheet as the default one. Read more

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