Top WordPress Actions/Filters

Posted on Sep 20th, 2010 by Chris M.

Today I downloaded just about every WordPress plugin that exists (or the top 8,000+, at least) and parsed out the actions and filters that each plugin hooks into.  I’m going to be looking at that data to help determine the key places that a CMS needs to be flexible.  But until I have time to play with the data, I thought I’d post the top WordPress hooks, taken from 8,240 of the most popular plugins hosted on WordPress.org.

It makes sense that initialization, filtering the page content, and adding administrative features are at the top of the list.  It’ll be more interesting to see whats a little further down.  I’ll post more as I have time to make sense of the data.

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  • http://ericrasch.wordpress.com/ Eric Rasch

    Ok… you’ve piqued my interest. 1) How did you download all the plugins at once? 2) How’d you scan all that data?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1405893444 Alvin Dacillo Comahig

    action filters in wordpress is at first weird for me but later on its on of the best features in any framework i got so far. nice blog