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WordPress Hooks – The Difference Between Actions and Filters
WordPress handles most of what’s needed to output your content to the user’s screen with PHP and SQL, producing that information in HTML with the capability to manipulate it further with JavaScript. However, there may be times when you want to modify how WordPress works with that data on the back end or how it’s displayed to the user. There are a few reasons for this, including ensuring ADA compatibility, modifying content before it’s saved, or simply deferring enqueued JavaScript files. In circumstances where you need to alter the data, either to change it before output or to add an additional function while something is loading, WordPress offers hooks in two flavors: Actions and FIlters. So, what is a WordPress hook? It is an additional function that you can use in order to interrupt WordPress’s normal operations and run some of your own. This can be very handy because WordPress