Everything on WordPress depends on the action and filter hooks. And they are the backbone of WordPress. You can enhance or customize any WordPress fun …
As of April 2026, WP Hooks Finder is a WordPress Action plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 30K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Downloads are up 27% this week. Top alternative: Cleanup Action Scheduler.
Everything on WordPress depends on the action and filter hooks. And they are the backbone of WordPress. You can enhance or customize any WordPress functionality by using these hooks. If you look at any WordPress page or post, they appear through the combination of action & filter hooks.
If you want to customize any functionality, whether it comes from a theme or plugin, you can customize it using their action and filter hooks without touching the core files. But sometimes, it is really hard to find what action or filter hooks you have to use to customize the functionality according to the need.
This plugin will solve your problem and display all the action and filter hooks of any page, post, widget header, footer, or anything appearing on your screen. So you can easily find what actio…
I don’t understand why there are only 7 reviews for this plugin but I do understand why they are all 5 stars. I guess everyone else identifies hooks and actions manually 😅 ..which is totally doable but why not just use this very light, configuration-less gem? Sure other more bloated plugins also offer the same feature but I’m going to stick with this specific, ready-made solution that gets the job done right.
This plugin is fantastic. There is zero configuration needed. You just go to a page on the front-end and choose from the drop-down what type of hooks you want to see. You then get a visual representation of them. Then you can simply deactivate the plugin until the next time you are looking for a hook. Thanks Muhammad!
I like it sooo muuuch! Good job!
A Very helpful plugin for finding the right hooks or filters!
The UI is awkward a little bit, but at least it works well.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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