Javascript in Wordpress

Question

Im new to wordpress and im trying to load javascript to it. This is my functions.php

add_action('wp_enque_scripts',function(){
 wp_enqueue_script('$javascript', get_stylesheet_directory_uri(). 
 'javascript/javascript.js', [], false, true);
});

and this is my javascript.js

console.log("hi");

When i open my browser's console i cant see the printed message. Plus my script file link isnt loaded in the HTML. What might be wrong? Is it that i didnt specified the javascript version?

• Justinas: Do you first open page or console?
• rahilo: First i reload the page and then i press F12 for the console tab
• Justinas: That's may be problem why you do not see console output. It does not write to console if it's closed. First open console, then refresh page
• rahilo: i did this a couple of times before, its not the problem
• Justinas: Do you see your script file being loaded in Network tab, do you see it's link in HTML?

Answer 1

Your mistake is in your action name wp_enque_scripts. You should write wp_enqueue_scripts

In addition, I think you need a slash before your folder name

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts',function(){
 wp_enqueue_script('$javascript', get_stylesheet_directory_uri(). 
 '/javascript/javascript.js', [], false, true);
});