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WordPress 5 Cookbook
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WordPress 5 Cookbook

by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
March 2020
Beginner
660 pages
18h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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First, we create a contact form using the Contact Form 7 plugin with default settings. Since we are using this as an example to learn about action and filter hooks, we didn't check or configure the Contact Form 7 plugin's settings. You can change them based on your preferences. Once some shortcode has been placed inside a page, it will display the contact form on the frontend. The default form only sends an email with the user data.

To change/add custom functionality, we need to use the action or filter hooks of a plugin.

"Hooks are a way for one piece of code to interact/modify another piece of code. They make up the foundation for how plugins and themes interact with WordPress Core, but they're also used extensively by Core ...
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ISBN: 9781838986506