Include user defined styles without including wp-load

If you are going to enqueue a stylesheet you should be using wp_enqueue_scripts not wp_print_styles, but you are in a bit of a gray zone between doing things “WordPress-ie” and doing things correctly for performance.

The “WordPress-ie” way is to enqueue a stylesheet, but from a performance standpoint you are loading an additional resource and in your case you also have to boot a significant portion of the WordPress Core to populate that dynamic stylesheet.

I would not do that. If it were me I would echo <style tags into the head. By doing so, you avoid loading an additional resource and you also avoid loading the WordPress twice. This is what the WordPress Core itself does with dynamic CSS created by, for example, the Theme Customization API.

The only case where I would consider loading another dynamic stylesheet would be if you have an enormous amount of CSS to load. I doubt you do.

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