Useful Tips To Get Started With WordPress Hooks – Smashing Magazine

Even though hooks in WordPress are amazing and everyone uses them knowingly or unknowingly, I get the impression that some advanced users and especially front-end developers still seem to avoid them. If you feel like you’ve been holding back on hooks, too, then this article will get you started. I am also going to reveal some interesting details to anyone who thinks they are familiar enough with hooks. You’ll want to read this article especially if you’d like to: understand code snippets with hooks such as those found in forums; extend WordPress, plugins and themes without breaking updates; learn how to avoid common problems; allow others to extend your code. My examples are taken from WordPress’ core and from my work as a freelance developer and author of the Advanced Ads plugin. Whenever you want to do something or customize something in WordPress, then there is very likely a hook you can use. The “do” hook is called an “action.” Wherever an action is defined, you can execute your own code. Here are some examples: send an email to the author once a post is published; load a custom script file in the footer of the page; add instructions above the login form. The most important thing #wordpress #smallbusiness #entrepreneur

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