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.

Slobodan Manic

Dragan Nikolic

THA Hooks Interface is a WordPress plugin developed by <a href="http://thematosoup.com" rel="nofollow ugc">ThematoSoup</a>. It creates a settings page which allows you to add code (PHP and HTML) by using hooks defined by the <a href="https://github.com/zamoose/themehookalliance" rel="nofollow ugc">Theme Hook Alliance</a>.
Core WordPress offers a suite of action hooks and template tags, but does not cover many of the common use cases. The Theme Hook Alliance is a community-driven effort to agree on a set of third-party action hooks that THA-compatible themes pledge to implement in order to give desired consistency.
THA Hooks Interface checks whether a theme uses these standardized hooks and if it does, it creates an interface where you can add code to almost any part of the theme.
If your active theme does not declare support for <a href="https://github.com/zamoose/themehookalliance" rel="nofollow ugc">Theme Hook Alliance</a> hooks, you can still use with wp_head and wp_footer hooks which are standard WordPress hooks. Also, if it doesn’t, please bug your theme developer about it 🙂
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THA Hooks Interface

THA Hooks Interface allows you to customize and alter theme functionality from within dashboard by hooking into Theme Hook Alliance hooks.

Hybrid Hook Widgets vs THA Hooks Interface