It seems like the terms hooks, filters and actions are used interchangeably. What’s the difference between them? What do they do? How do I use them? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them as … Read more
I have been looking at the plugin API a bit more in depth recently and I was wondering what real differences there were between action and filter hooks. They both are events that receive data as a parameter and they seem to both be able to do the same things.
This question might be wrong, I am not sure about it. Because I am not clear on this.
In a situation where a plugin has encapsulated its methods within a class and then registered a filter or action against one of those methods, how do you remove the action or the filter if you no longer have access to that class’ instance?
Is a way to pass my own parameters to the function in add_filter or add_action.
For example take a look in the following code:
Is there a way to limit search to post titles? I know I can modify query.php core file but there must be a way to do it with hooks right?
I have a plugin and I would like to be able to run the post content through some filters before it is saved to the database. From looking at the plugin api, I see that two hooks that look like they might be helpful:
Is it possible to reference a class instead of a function in ‘add_action’? Can’t seem to figure it out. Here is just a basic example of the function in question.
I am building an add-on to an events module that checks for availability, since there wasn’t a function for that in that module. Now that I have built the logic, there are three emails I will need to send:
i try to hook when post is updated but all hook i try never executed except updated_post_meta