[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10408: Standard Naming of Hooks in Themes

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#10408: Standard Naming of Hooks in Themes
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 Reporter:  dcole07      |       Owner:  dcole07 
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.9     
Component:  Themes       |     Version:  2.9     
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  close   
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Comment(by Denis-de-Bernardy):

 Yaya, it's perfectly clear you want new hooks. I was merely mentioning how
 these hooks ended up used in practice when theme authors add them.

 Quite frankly, having gone through this myself, and having maintained a
 template that had tons of hooks at one point while keeping other themes in
 mind for my plugins, the only hooks I've ever wished was present on all
 installs were a wp_header hook immediately after the body tag. Then again,
 they can easily be replaced by hooking into wp_head.

 The remaining bonus hooks in themes you're wishing for, are really just a
 convenience for end-users who don't understand the WP internals. Yet, I
 can tell you with reasonable confidence that there almost always is a non-
 obvious hook that can be used in a way or another.

 Adding to this, my key finding -- if any -- was that having too obvious
 hooks in a template was bait for end-users to try to use them, for all
 sorts of things that they shouldn't even be trying. The last thing you
 want is Joe six-pack's mom requesting help in a support forum in order to
 code a php function. I speak from experience here, too -- I've helped
 hundreds of them, and dealing with them is not fun *at all*.

 The most important point to keep in mind, though, is that a lot of themes
 don't go as far as adding the wp_footer() call. If we add a half dozen
 more such things, you're guaranteed that plugins will advertise themselves
 as being click and do nothing things -- but the reality is going it's
 going to be chaos in the support forum because they still have to do
 something.

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