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Originally Posted by squidsk

As a note I've inherited this code so I'm not sure which of these, if either, is responsible for including the css when css is not stored as a file.

That first plugin just caches your template, and the second one includes your css template when css.php is called (when CSS is not stored as a file). So unless there's more code somewhere else, it doesn't look like anything was done to include it when CSS is stored as a file. What you can do is create a new plugin using hook parse_templates and code like this:

if ($vbulletin->options['storecssasfile'])
{
    $template_hook['headinclude_css'] .= '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="' . vB_Template::fetch_css_path() . 'my_css.css" />';
}

But there's one issue - this will load my_css.css on every page. If you can list the pages that actually need it, then you could limit it to those pages by also doing a check of THIS_SCRIPT.