[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12563: New action on body open

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#12563: New action on body open
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 Reporter:  joostdevalk                          |       Owner:
                                                 |  adamsilverstein
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
                                                 |  Release
Component:  Bundled Theme                        |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch commit needs-dev-note      |     Focuses:  template
  close                                          |
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Comment (by apedog):

 I've just read through this entire thread and am frankly baffled. I'm used
 to seeing discussion thread around feature requests on different
 repositories. And quite a few where the project leads refuse those feature
 requests on ideological and design philosophy grounds. Even if those leads
 accept that the feature might be useful to a portion of the users.

 But this is not the case here. The feature is rejected without any cogent
 reason. 'WordPress has survived for 8 years without this useful feature'
 is given as a valid reason. 'GMT hooking into body tag will soon be a
 thing of the past' - another reply. 'Themes will not adopt this' was one
 very un-forward-looking argument given (the recent push of Gutenberg being
 a clear example to the contrary - plugin developers have rushed to
 implement). And finally - 'Gutenberg is coming and it's gonna change
 EVERYTHING'. While the last might be true, it is irrelevant to the
 necessity of this hook. This has nothing to do with Gutenberg or with
 themes, and all to do with plugins that require hooking into the opening
 of the BODY tag.

 Right now I have a custom {{{<?php namespaced_wp_body() ?>}}} function
 that calls 3 different {{{do_action}}} hooks ({{{tha_body_top}}},
 {{{body_top}}}, {{{body_open}}}) that all do the same thing, just to
 satisfy different plugins I have installed (and, of course, I cannot play
 with the priorities properly as the hooks fire consecutively). Not to
 mention {{{genesis_before}}} and a ton of other non-standardized hooks
 that all do exactly the same thing that *apparently* so many plugins find
 useful. But the core development team is somehow not impressed by this
 abundance of evidence.

 When all that is needed is a simple {{{<?php wp_body() ?>}}} tag that any
 theme can easily implement and a standard {{{do_action('body_open')}}}
 that any plugin can hook into. @ramiy's post above is illustrative of the
 simplicity and logic of implementing this functionality in WordPress core.

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