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Thew p _ f o o t e r actionistriggerednearthe< / b o d y > tagoftheuser'stemplatebythew p _ f o o t e r ( ) function.Althoughthisis themedependent,itisoneofthemostessentialthemehooks,soitisfairlywidelysupported. Thishookprovidesnoparameters.Youusethishookbyhavingyourfunctionechooutputtothebrowser,orbyhavingitperform backgroundtasks.Yourfunctionsshouldn'treturn,andshouldn'ttakeanyparameters. ThishookisthemedependentwhichmeansthatitisuptotheauthorofeachWordPressthemetoincludeit.Itmaynotbeavailable onallthemes,soyoushouldtakethisintoaccountwhenusingit. Whenincluded,thedefaultoutputforthisfunctionistheadminpanelwhichwillbeshowninthetopofthetheme.Itshouldbekeptin thefooterforeverythemebecausemostofthepluginbindtheirscriptfilesorfunctionstothishook. Thishookisanactionwhichmeansthatitprimarilyactsasaneventtrigger,insteadofacontentfilter.Thisisasemanticdifference, butitwillhelpyoutorememberwhatthishookdoesifyouuseitlikethis:

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< ? p h p f u n c t i o n y o u r _ f u n c t i o n ( ) { e c h o ' < p > T h i s i s i n s e r t e d a t t h e b o t t o m < / p > ' } a d d _ a c t i o n ( ' w p _ f o o t e r ' , ' y o u r _ f u n c t i o n ' ) ? >

Setpriorityofyouraction
Ifyouwanttoinfluencethemomentthatyourhookisexecuted,youcanappendanintegeras3rdargumenttoadd_action:

< ? p h p f u n c t i o n y o u r _ f u n c t i o n ( ) { e c h o ' < p > T h i s i s i n s e r t e d a t t h e b o t t o m < / p > ' } a d d _ a c t i o n ( ' w p _ f o o t e r ' , ' y o u r _ f u n c t i o n ' , 1 0 0 ) ? >

Thehigherthenumber,thelowerthepriorityandasaresultyourhookwillbeexecutedfurtherdownthepage.Enqueuedscriptsare executedatprioritylevel20.

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