templates - Wordpress default stylesheet path

Question

Is there any way to change default Wordpress stylesheet path? When I move style.css to /styles/style.css folder (and updating path in header.php) I cannot load my theme from admin panel, because WP screams about broken template :-/

I tried with define('STYLESHEETPATH', get_template_directory . '/css'); in functions.php but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

You must have a style.css in your theme folder since this is how WordPress identifies the theme, using the comments in the header of this file. If you wanted to host the actually CSS in a different subdirectory the easiest way would be to do a CSS import:

File style.css

/*  
Theme Name: My Theme
*/
@import url('css/style.css');

File css/style.css

* { margin: 0; padding: 0 }
body { font-size:12px; }

You can also explicitly load both files, but I would recommend the way in the example above.

Changing the STYLESHEETPATH isn't recommend since many plugins use this to determine the active theme's path, however in your example you are missing the parens for the function call to get_template_directory().