Justin Tadlock

Hybrid Hook Widgets is a plugin that creates new widget areas for the <a href="http://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid" rel="nofollow ugc">Hybrid theme</a> and attaches them to the theme’s action hooks. Basically, it allows you to add widgets pretty much anywhere.
Typically, to add extra stuff to the theme, you must use one of Hybrid’s action hooks. This can be quite confusing to some users. This plugin was created mainly for those users without much XHTML and PHP knowledge. It allows them to take advantage of Hybrid’s advanced hook system without the need to understand how it works. Of course, even advanced users can take advantage of this, especially when dealing with client work.
This plugin is for WordPress 2.8+ only.
You must have the <a href="http://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid" rel="nofollow ugc">Hybrid theme</a> installed to use it.
Full instructions for use can be found in the plugin’s <code>readme.html</code> file, which is included with the plugin download.

Hybrid Hook Widgets

Adds 11 new widget areas to the Hybrid WordPress theme framework using its action hooks.

StudioPress

Nathan Rice

This plugin creates a new Genesis settings page that allows you to insert code (HTML, Shortcodes, and PHP), and attach it to any of the 50+ action hooks throughout the Genesis Theme Framework, from StudioPress.
Instead of the sometimes tedious and unfamiliar process of creating functions in your theme files, this plugin gives you an attractive, easy to use interface for modifying your Genesis theme via the hook system. The plugin accepts HTML, Shortcodes, and PHP and gives you access to all 50+ hooks built into the Genesis theme, and a few built-in WordPress hooks as well.
<h3>Code Snippets</h3>
The most common request from Genesis users is how to properly modify their footer, post-info, and post-meta text. Here are some code snippets that might prove helpful in doing this:
Modifying the post-info
<pre><code><div class="post-info">
 <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#respond"><?php comments_number('Leave a Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></a> <a class="post-edit-link"><?php edit_post_link('(Edit)', '', ''); ?></a>
</div>
</code></pre>
Modifying the post-meta
<pre><code><div class="post-meta">
 Filed under: <?php the_category(', ') ?> Tagged with <?php the_tags('') ?>
</div>
</code></pre>
Modifying the Footer
<pre><code><div class="gototop">
 <a href="#wrap" rel="nofollow">Return to top of page</a>
</div>
<div class="creds">
 Copyright &copy; <?php echo date('Y'); ?> &middot; <a href="http://www.studiopress.com/themes/genesis" title="Genesis Theme Framework">Genesis Theme Framework</a> by <a href="http://www.studiopress.com/">StudioPress</a> &middot; <a href="https://wordpress.org/" title="WordPress">WordPress</a> &middot; <?php wp_loginout(); ?>
</div>
</code></pre>
Note: You must have the <code>Execute PHP on this hook</code> option selected in order to use template tags

Genesis Simple Hooks

Great Plugin!

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