Genesis and Thesis Development
Thesis Hooks are the equivalent to Joomla! Module Positions.I wish someone would have told me this when Thesis first hit the market. Once I put two-and-two together…It clicked.
With the use of the WordPress Plugin, Thesis OpenHook (written by Rick Beckman), you can take control of Thesis Hooks without stressing! For a handy visual reference guide: http://thesishooks.com
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[...] with the onset of Hooks (as seen in Thesis) WordPress has come leaps and bounds from version 2.1. Mark my words template clubs will be the first to develop there own Hooks (AKA Module Positions), followed by the [...]
I challenge this!
Thesis Hooks and Filters are at a much lower level than Joomla mod positions. Hooks allow for a huge array of capabilities that go way beyond what Joomla Mods do. Joomla Mods = WordPress Widgets (+ widget logic).
With Thesis Hooks and Filters we have access to a whole host of API functionality that the hooks API provides. Plus you can directly inject HTML and PHP into the theme without editing template files. Look into it further and familiarize yourself with the hooks api and I am sure the differences will become very clear to you.
I’m not a programmer, and I’m unfamiliar with coding thesis hooks, but you broke down creating WordPress functions in a way that I can easily understand! Thank you!