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I am developing a plugin and using do_action() instead of shortcodes to display plugin content on the site. The plugin will only be used by me, but I am making the plugin to separate components of the site from the theme itself.

How would I go about conditionally displaying javascript and css on a page, IF a specific do_action is called in a theme, from the plugin?

I have found a ton on shortcodes but I wanted to avoid using shortcodes, as I will be calling the actions directly in the theme.

I tried something like this

add_action('wp_footer', 'print_my_script');
function print_my_script() {
    if(did_action('my_custom_action')) {
        wp_enqueue_scripts('listings');
        wp_enqueue_scripts('isotope');
    }
}

edit: its wp_enqueue_script() not scripts and changing that solved my problem

but it did not work. I also looked at Scribu's article on the subject for shortcodes and use globals, but that still did not work.

I suspect that I might be able to rearrange priorities and make this work, but I am not sure.

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    have you tried the correct function - wp_enqueue_script? Commented Jun 25, 2014 at 1:19
  • @Milo wow. I had taken this code from Scribus article which used wp_print_scripts() and changed print to enqueue, and stopped there. thank you! I am in shock that this worked. Commented Jun 25, 2014 at 1:25

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And.... the answer was actually correct, if you are using the correct functions. As Milo pointed out, it's wp_enqueue_script not scripts.

add_action('wp_footer', 'print_my_script');
function print_my_script() {
    if(did_action('my_custom_action')) {
        wp_enqueue_script('listings');
        wp_enqueue_script('isotope');
    } 
}

Hopefully this helps someone else in need!

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