Where WordPress Theme Authors Should Be Adding in Hooks

By Ian Stewart · July 17th, 2008

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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david

Posted July 17, 2008 at 4:20 pm | Permalink

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.
Ian Stewart

Posted July 17, 2008 at 4:57 pm | Permalink

See the following items:
How I used a WordPress Child Theme To Redesign My Blog The Smart Way
How To Protect Your WordPress Theme Against Upgrades
How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog
Ptah Dunbar

Posted July 17, 2008 at 9:47 pm | Permalink

Adding hooks to a theme is very interesting. Going to dive into this pretty soon.

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