id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
21506	Standard Theme Hooks	mfields		"During the hack day at WordCamp SF, Konstantin Kovshenin and I sat down to work out a solution to allow for better communication between themes and plugins. We propose that core introduce 4 new hooks into the default WordPress themes allowing plugins to add custom markup relative to common theme elements. While many other theme locations could be recognized, we have only included hooks that we could provide at least three use common use cases for.

header_after: Allows custom markup to be inserted after all visual header elements have rendered. Possible use cases for this hook include:

 * Breadcrumb navigation.
 * Links to social profiles.
 * Advertising.
 * log in/out form.

post_after: Allows custom markup to be inserted after all visual elements have rendered for the current global post object. This hook would fix the issue originally reported in #18561. Possible use cases for this hook include:

 * Sharing links.
 * Related posts.
 * Ratings.
 * Author bio.

comment_after: Allows custom markup to be inserted after all visual elements have rendered for the current global comment object. Possible use cases for this hook include:

 * Upvote/Downvote control.
 * Ratings.
 * Show/hide threads functionality.

footer_after: Allows custom markup to be inserted after all visual elements have rendered for the footer. While this action is similar to {{{wp_footer}}}, it would be possible for the theme author to move this into nested html elements. To my knowledge, {{{wp_footer}}} is intended to fire immediately before the closing {{{body}}} tag. Possible use case for this hook include:

 * Links to social profiles.
 * Advertising.
 * The ""small print"" or copyright information.

If standardized hooks such as these were recognized by core, it would also have a positive effect on child theming. Theme authors would no longer need to override entire files just to introduce an element of two.

We have prepared 3 patches for the default themes to demonstrate placement of these hooks as well as a plugin to demonstrate their usage."	enhancement	new	normal	Awaiting Review	Bundled Theme		normal			ocean90 westi ian@… kovshenin@… jeremy@… philip@… info@… georgemamadashvili@… dkikizas@… konstantin@… sabreuse@… bob.ellison@… xoodrew@… lancewillett bradthomas127@… beau@… justin@… sirzooro chip@… erick@… brian@… emil@… edward.caissie@… mercijavier@… garinungkadol BrazenlyGeek saltcod@… aaroncampbell geertdd@… mdhansen@… rachelbaker zamoose@… kwight@… dromsey@…