Aaron Brazell of Technosailor offers his opinion on where WordPress theme authors should be adding hooks—for easy theme modification—into their themes. Fuel for good thought on theme design.
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Not really sure why anyone would want to write a plugin to modify a theme, but I suppose I’m also not using themes that are regularly modified by their original author.
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Adding hooks to a theme is very interesting. Going to dive into this pretty soon.
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