Question

I hate putting things into the functions.php file and therefore wanted to hook into a pre-existing WP-hook to register/configure my custom post-types (and taxonomies). Somewhere I was reading that “template-redirect” would be a good one but it appear that that hook isn’t fired when you’re on the admin pages and therefore is fairly useless.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I was reviewing my open questions and it reminded me that I hadn’t closed this one out. Marty’s answer was helpful but really pointed to a different solution path. In retrospect, I’m not sure what hook I had tried but the kind of obvious one is “init” and I’m using that now and it works.

Here’s my flow:

• My plugin is loaded with the ‘plugins_loaded’ event
• It does some basic initialisation and then hooks into the ‘admin’ hook

• When the ‘admin’ event is fired my plugin then this fires off the following function:

  function add_hooks () {
      // fire a hook that a configuration file can pick up
      do_action ( 'lg_custom_types_definition');
      // now fire hooks to register custom types
      do_action ( 'lg_custom_type_cpt_registration' );        // register
      do_action ( 'lg_custom_types_registered_post_types');
      do_action ( 'lg_custom_type_tax_registration' );        // register
      do_action ( 'lg_custom_types_registered_taxonomies');
  }
  

This approach gives me a completely decoupled approach which means I can enable the “custom_types” plugin and I now have the ‘capability’ installed. Then I create a configuration plugin that hooks into the events that the capability has added.

Hope this helps.