Based on my own experience, I’ve used a combination of method 1 & 2 – the architecture and footer scripts of 1, and the ‘look-ahead’ technique of 2. For the look-ahead though, I use regex in place of stripos; personal preference, faster, and can check for ‘malformed’ shortcode; preg_match( ‘#\[ *shortcode([^\]])*\]#i’, $content ); If you’re … Read more
Why registering and queuing properly matters it should be in time – earlier than script/style is up for being output to page, otherwise it is too late; it should be conditional – otherwise you are loading stuff where you don’t need it and cause performance and functionality issues, for this you need WP environment loaded … Read more
add_menu_page and add_submenu_page both return the page’s “hook suffix”, which can be used to identify the page with certain hooks. As such, you can use that suffix in combination with the variable hooks admin_print_styles-{$hook_suffix} and admin_print_scripts-{$hook_suffix} to specifically target these pages. function my_menu() { $menu = add_menu_page( ‘Page 1’, ‘bar’, ‘something’, ‘else’, ‘foo’ ); $submenu … Read more