{"id":16808,"date":"2019-08-12T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mind.sh\/are\/?p=16808"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:15:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:15:42","slug":"add-async-defer-or-any-other-attribute-to-wordpress-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mind.sh\/are\/add-async-defer-or-any-other-attribute-to-wordpress-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Async, defer, or Any Other Attribute to WordPress scripts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently ran into an issue in trying to add FontAwesome to a WordPress theme. FontAwesome introduced Kits back in May of last year. To use a kit you simply include a and viola, magic icons! In WordPress this is done with the <code>wp_enqueue_script()<\/code> function. However, I needed to include icons in pseudo elements which required that the attribute <code>data-search-pseudo-elements<\/code> be added to the script tag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without much time to research I opted to simply hard code the script tag into the header of my theme without using WordPress&#8217;s built in functionality. <strong>This was incorrect. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">script_loader_tag<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <code>script_loader_tag filter<\/code> in WordPress allows us to add any attribute to an enqueued script. This can be used for <code>defer<\/code>, <code>async<\/code>, or any other attribute needed in the script tag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\/*\n * Add async attributes to enqueued scripts where needed.\n * The ability to filter script tags was added in WordPress 4.1 for this purpose.\n *\/\n\nadd_filter( 'script_loader_tag', function ( $tag, $handle, $src ) {\n    \/\/ the handles of the enqueued scripts we want to async\n    $scripts = array( 'fontawesome', 'another-script' );\n\n    if ( in_array( $handle, $scripts ) ) {\n        return '&lt;script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"' . $src . '\" data-search-pseudo-elements>&lt;\/script>';\n    }\n\n    return $tag;\n}, 10, 3 );<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The <code>script_loader_tag<\/code> filter was introduced early in WordPress 4.1. 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However, I needed to include icons in pseudo elements which&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/mind.sh\/are\/add-async-defer-or-any-other-attribute-to-wordpress-scripts\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Add Async, defer, or Any Other Attribute to WordPress scripts. - Mindshare Labs, Inc<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mindshare Labs, Inc is more than a basic web design company, we become your ally in business, establishing your website as a tool for growth, sales, and clear communication with your customers and clients.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mind.sh\/are\/add-async-defer-or-any-other-attribute-to-wordpress-scripts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Add Async, defer, or Any Other Attribute to WordPress scripts. - Mindshare Labs, Inc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mindshare Labs, Inc is more than a basic web design company, we become your ally in business, establishing your website as a tool for growth, sales, and clear communication with your customers and clients.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mind.sh\/are\/add-async-defer-or-any-other-attribute-to-wordpress-scripts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mindshare Labs, Inc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mindsharelabs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-12T15:53:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-24T19:15:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mind.sh\/are\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mindshare-labs.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1932\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"James W. 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