Before I’d written my long post with hook sequences using a debug tool to find them, this was a great reference to commonly used hooks.
#Learn wordpress series#
This series is one of the most amazing series written on TutsPlus.
#Learn wordpress code#
I didn’t know that before I wrote this post! 🙂 If databases sound foreign, and some of those code snippets appear intimidating, this may be a resource better left bookmarked for later once you have some PHP basics mastered. I learned from here that filter hooks are categorized depending on whether the code is reading from the database before the hook does anything or the hook does something after the database has saved data. This way you can just dive into code and get a feel for how things work yourself. They give a brief explanation and offer code snippets, but the goal is to point you to the WordPress Codex. I like how TreeHouse gets to the point on hooks. If diving right into code before explanations sound more like your style, might want to give this a read. This article guides the reader through some core examples that can be modified before clearly explaining what filters are, the terminology, and the difference between filters and hooks. For some, this may be more confusing off the bat, but for others, this method may work. I like how this article introduces you to code snippets in core right away. I’d recommend this as the starting point for anyone looking to learn WordPress hooks without all the heavy tech jargon. Realizing this was an epiphany of sorts! So if you’re confused by whether hooks are for plugins only, WPShout is going to break it all down in plain English. This was also the first resource that I’d read that clarified the terminology used in the WordPress Codex wasn’t always consistent, therefore making the subject more difficult to learn. Whatever shaky understandings I’d had up until that point were solidified with the help of their awesome factory analogies. WPShout’s article was the final nail for me.
#Learn wordpress free#
If you know of others, feel free to recommend in the comments. Here are 10 resources about WordPress hooks, from newest to oldest. In addition to these 10 resources, I’d like to share 2 methods that worked for me. Everyone learns differently and at their own pace, but perhaps sharing my experience will help someone along. These resources will hopefully bring that fuzzy definition of hooks into focus, even if it’s in layers. Knowing that it took a combination of resources and methods for me to learn WordPress hooks, I’d like to pass them onto you. Or maybe it will, depends on the person I guess. For me, however, it took several readings, videos, and diving into WordPress code before the ah hah moment hit. In other words, there is no one mind blowing resource that is suddenly going to make it click. I hadn’t truly understood what was happening when I dropped these snippets of PHP in and the world that would open once that understanding happened.Īs much as I’d like to sit here and try to explain what hooks are, if there’s one thing I can say from experience, is that understanding comes in layers. I too, was copying and pasting various solutions offered by the all knowing Google or Stack Overflow into my WordPress theme. Hooks didn’t click for me until about a year ago. It’s such a deep system, deeper than most people imagine, and I’ve found that once I’ve obtained an understanding of one concept, there is always more to learn. Each concept I learn serves as a foundation for what I learn next. WordPress is the kind of thing that the goal isn’t to learn it all, but to learn it in levels for your purposes. In fact, I can’t say that I completely know all there is to know about WordPress hooks even now, even after writing, “ The WordPress Hooks Firing Sequence“. Still confused? No worries, it took me a while too.
Line 310 of functions.php in Twenty Fifteen, it’s a filter hook. Line 142 of functions.php in Twenty Fifteen, it’s an action hook. These are two examples I pulled from the Twenty Fifteen Theme in functions.php. Before I go on with this post, they look like this. I’m sure that there may even people reading this right now, and not entirely sure what I mean by hooks. We always hear the word “hooks” being thrown around and it’s one of those things that make sense, but then it doesn’t. Press Customizr: WordPress Actions, Filters, and Hooks : A guide for non-developers.WP Candy: Custom Hooks and Pluggable Functions.TutsPlus: Understanding Hooks from the Inside Out.Smashing Magazine: A Definitive Guide to WordPress Hooks.TutsPlus: Fifty Filters of WordPress Series.TutsPlus: Fifty Actions of WordPress Series.Team TreeHouse: WordPress Hooks: Actions, Filters, and Examples.WPMUDEV: A Quick (and in-Depth) Guide to WordPress Hooks.WPShout: WordPress Hooks, Actions, and Filters: What They Do and How They Work.
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