Thesis Hook Reference List

WordPress provides an impressive array of hooks with which you can hook your own actions into, remove default WordPress actions therefrom, or filter the output of posts, comments, and more.

As impressive as the list is, though, they don’t allow you much in the way of modifying your theme. This is where Thesis hooks come into play. This reference should come in handy as you modify your theme.

Thesis Hooks

thesis_hook_before_html

Just after the opening body tag, before anything else.

thesis_hook_after_html

Just before the closing body tag, after everything else.

thesis_hook_before_header

Just before the block which usually contains the site name & tagline.

thesis_hook_after_header

Just after the block which usually contains the site name & tagline.

thesis_hook_header

Determines the content of div#header.

thesis_hook_before_title

Within div#header, before the site title.

thesis_hook_after_title

Within div#header, after the site tagline.

thesis_hook_before_content

Within div#content, before posts begin.

thesis_hook_after_content

Within div#content, after all posts.

thesis_hook_before_post

Within div.format_text, before post content. If more than one post is shown on a page, this hook fires before each of them.

thesis_hook_after_post

Within div.format_text, after post content. If more than one post is shown on a page, this hook fires before each of them.

thesis_hook_before_headline

Within div.headline_area, before the title of the page. If more than one post is shown on a page, this hook fires for each one.

thesis_hook_after_headline

Within div>headline_area, after the title of the page. If more than one post is shown on a page, this hook fires for each one.

thesis_hook_byline_item

Within p.headline_meta, just before the edit link (if enabled). This hook will only have a noticeable affect if there is a byline to display according to the settings in Thesis Options. If more than one post is shown on a page, this hook is fired for each one.

thesis_hook_before_comment_meta

Within dt.comment, before the comment’s meta information. If there is more than one comment on the page, this hook is fired for each one.

thesis_hook_after_comment_meta

Within dt.comment, after the comment’s meta information. If there is more than one comment on the page, this hook is fired for each one.

thesis_hook_after_comment

Within div.format_text, after the comment’s text. If there is more than one comment on the page, this hook is fired for each one.

thesis_hook_comment_form

Within form#commentform, just before the paragraph containing the comment form’s submit button.

thesis_hook_archive_info

Within div#archive_info, above the first post only on archive views (e.g., category listings, date listings, search results).

thesis_hook_404_title

Within h1. Determines the title of 404 error pages (not the title which appears in the browser’s title bar).

thesis_hook_404_content

Within div.format_text. Determines the content of a 404 error page.

thesis_hook_before_sidebars

Just within div#sidebars, before either sidebar or the multimedia box begins.

thesis_hook_after_sidebars

Within div#sidebars, after both sidebars.

thesis_hook_after_multimedia_box

Within div#sidebars, after the multimedia box.

thesis_hook_before_sidebar_1

Within div#sidebar_1 ul.sidebar_list, before sidebar 1’s first widget.

thesis_hook_after_sidebar_1

Within div#sidebar_1 ul.sidebar_list, after sidebar 1’s last widget.

thesis_hook_before_sidebar_2

Within div#sidebar_2 ul.sidebar_list, before sidebar 2’s first widget.

thesis_hook_after_sidebar_2

Within div#sidebar_2 ul.sidebar_list, after sidebar 2’s last widget.

thesis_hook_before_footer

Just before div#footer.

thesis_hook_after_footer

Just after div#footer.

thesis_hook_footer

Within div#footer.

Bonus WordPress Hooks

Just for fun, here are some WordPress hooks which you should be familiar with as well:

wp_head

Within head, useful for outputting meta tags, JavaScript, stylesheet information, and so on.

wp_footer

Within div#footer. This is what plugins will use to output to your footer. It is similar to the thesis_hook_footer hook and appears after it.

comment_form

Within form#commentform similar to the hook thesis_hook_comment_form, but appears after the submit button and has the comment ID number passed to it as a parameter.