An intro to WordPress Hooks Meetup

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Topic: An intro to WP hooks

** Only RSVP Yes if you are coming, the room is smaller and there is a limit on attendees, Thanks! **

Located in Library 21c in B6 meeting room (located upstairs on the southeast side behind the computer lab)

Meetup Agenda

• 6:30 – 6:45pm: Networking

• 6:45 – 7:00pm: WordPress News

• 7:00pm: WordPress Topic

• 7:30pm: Open Discussion: WordPress tips and helpful resources Open discussion about all things WordPress

Hooks: Actions and Filters

Hooks are provided by WordPress to allow your plugin to ‘hook into’ the rest of WordPress; that is, to call functions in your plugin at specific times, and thereby set your plugin in motion. There are two kinds of hooks:

1. Actions (Codex Action Reference)
2. Filters (Codex Filter Reference)

You can sometimes accomplish the same goal with either an action or a filter. For example, if you want your plugin to change the text of a post, you might add an action function to publish_post (so the post is modified as it is saved to the database), or a filter function to the_content (so the post is modified as it is displayed in the browser screen).

For a thorough listing of all action and filter hooks in WP see Adam Brown’s WordPress Hooks Database.

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