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Inside themes and plugins with built-in hooks

Inside themes and plugins with built-in hooks - WordPress Tutorial

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Inside themes and plugins with built-in hooks

- [Instructor] A lot of larger plugins and theme frameworks have their own hooks built into the code. This is handy as it lets other developers extend the code they've written. In this lesson, I'd like to highlight a handful of real world examples and I'll start here with Easy Digital Downloads. It's an e-commerce plugin for selling digital goods. Then we've got BuddyPress, which is a plugin for building online communities. And there's the Genesis Framework, which I'm a big fan of, and it's a framework for building WordPress themes. All three of these are quite popular and a whole lot of third party developers have created their own plugins and themes that extend these. Now, the developers of these code bases have made extending them pretty easy to do by the documentation that they've provided for us. For example, here's an API reference for Easy Digital Downloads. You've got documentation on available filters and actions,…

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