Add a query string to the end of the theme's style.css when WordPress is loaded.

cssversioner.php

<?php

/**
 * Add a filter to stylesheet_uri, which appends a query string to it automagically.
 */
add_filter('stylesheet_uri', 'zk_css_versioner');

/**
 * the goal of this method is to append a query string to the css url for the site.
 * the query string currently is determined by the last time the css file was modified
 * the theory is that if the file is modified, change the value of v=, which should
 * force the CDN to pull a new version from the origin server. This could be a
 * a hit on performance, not sure yet. Let's get it working first. 
 * 
 * @return string
 */
function zk_css_versioner() {


    $cssfile = get_stylesheet_directory() . "/style.css";
    $turi = get_template_directory_uri();

    if (file_exists($cssfile)) {
        $cssuri = "$turi/style.css?v=" . filemtime($cssfile);
    }

    echo $cssuri;
}

?>

You should be able to put this file in your mu-plugins folder, and it'll automagically add the string as long you call your stylesheet using bloginfo('stylesheet_uri');

with a single wordpress install (non-MU) this only works changing:

echo $cssuri;

to

return $cssuri;

Otherwise the CSS URI is echoed into the body element.

Neat code though, thanks.

This is awesome, yet so simple!