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WP Hooks Finder

by Muhammad Rehman

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Description

Everything on WordPress depends on the action and filter hooks. And they are the backbone of WordPress. You can enhance or customize any WordPress functionality by using these hooks. If you look at any WordPress page or post, they appear through the combination of action & filter hooks.

If you want to customize any functionality, whether it comes from a theme or plugin, you can customize it using their action and filter hooks without touching the core files. But sometimes, it is really hard to find what action or filter hooks you have to use to customize the functionality according to the need.

This plugin will solve your problem and display all the action and filter hooks of any page, post, widget header, footer, or anything appearing on your screen. So you can easily find what action and filter you have to use to add or customize the functionality.

Once you have installed the plugin, a menu “Hooks Finder” will appear on top of the admin bar. You can view all the action and filter hooks that are running on your WordPress page, including header, footer, widgets, etc.

To add a WordPress Plugin using the built-in plugin installer:

Go to Plugins > Add New.

  1. Type in the name \”WP Hooks Finder\” in Search Plugins box
  2. Find the \”WP Hooks Finder\” Plugin you wish to install.
  3. Click Install Now to install the WordPress Plugin.
  4. The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install.
    If successful, click Activate Plugin to activate it, or Return to Plugin Installer for further actions.
  1. Menu Options

    Menu Options

  2. Display Actions & Filters

    Display Actions & Filters

How to use this plugin?

Just after installing WP Hooks Finder, A new menu “WP Hooks Finder” will be added in your wordpress admin bar where you can display all the hooks and filters

Simple and just plain great!!

By Christos Paloukas (cpal) on April 9, 2025

I don't understand why there are only 7 reviews for this plugin but I do understand why they are all 5 stars. I guess everyone else identifies hooks and actions manually 😅 ..which is totally doable but why not just use this very light, configuration-less gem? Sure other more bloated plugins also offer the same feature but I'm going to stick with this specific, ready-made solution that gets the job done right.

Fantastic tool for speeding up my development!

By jasonbongreen on November 29, 2024

This plugin is fantastic. There is zero configuration needed. You just go to a page on the front-end and choose from the drop-down what type of hooks you want to see. You then get a visual representation of them. Then you can simply deactivate the plugin until the next time you are looking for a hook. Thanks Muhammad!

Love it!

By pavelsilviu on March 16, 2024

I like it sooo muuuch! Good job!

A Very helpful plugin for finding the right hooks or filters

By Mark Kevin (mkesteban08) on September 14, 2023

A Very helpful plugin for finding the right hooks or filters!

It is a must have plugin if you are a developer

By estalhun on August 2, 2023

The UI is awkward a little bit, but at least it works well.

Nice utility!

By charly (cdsaenz) on January 30, 2023

I was going to write something myself but after this great work I stopped. One thing that would be nice, would be the ability to filter out certain hooks/filters only. In my case I want to see the WooCommerce hooks/filters only, that would be really cool to have. Thanks!

This is the great plugin

By syedaliobjectsemail on December 22, 2022

This plugin helps me to find hooks and filters.

1.3.3

  • Tested up to WP v6.8

1.3.2

  • FIX – Resolved issue where dialog boxes were open by default
  • FIX – Reduced dialog boxes Overlapping issue
  • FIX – White screen issue in wp backend

1.3.1

  • FIX – Resolved issue where some of the CSS was removed on pages

1.3

  • NEW – New Look & Feel
  • NEW – More detailing in each action & fiter hooks
  • NEW – Highlight the active action & filter hooks
  • FIX – Filter hooks was not displaying properly
  • FIX – Hooks were overlapping

1.2.5

Compatible with WordPress v6.5+

1.2.4

Tested up to latest WordPress

1.2.3

  • NEW – Show Only Action OR Filter Hooks, instead of both
  • NEW – Translation Support
  • NEW – Added google search link to each action and filter hooks
  • IMPROVEMENT – Color scheme

1.2.2

Compatible with WP v6.1.1

1.2.1

Compatible with WP 6.0

1.2

  • FIX – Change colors & fonts of hooks result
  • FIX – Not working well with query string in url
  • FIX – Styling not working for admin area

1.1

  • FIX – Colors is applying on others menu too.
  • FIX – Correct menu label name.

1.0

  • Initial release.
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