Plugin info

Total downloads: 790,336
Active installs: 20,000
Total reviews: 22
Average rating: 4.6
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 5 language(s)
Contributors: 4
Last updated: 12/4/2025 (27 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 4/26/2010 (15 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.7.2
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 27 days ago • 22 reviews

72/100

Is Genesis Simple Hooks abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 27 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.7.2
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: f

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Description

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.

Code Snippets

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


Modifying the post-meta


Modifying the Footer


Copyright © · Genesis Theme Framework by StudioPress · WordPress ·

Note: You must have the Execute PHP on this hook option selected in order to use template tags

Installation

  1. Upload the entire genesis-simple-hooks folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. DO NOT change the name of the genesis-simple-hooks folder
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  4. Find a hook that you’d like to use (they’re grouped together logically)
  5. Insert the code you’d like to execute on that hook
  6. Choose whether or not to execute Shortcodes and PHP on that hook
  7. Save the changes

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Shortcodes?

Check out the Shortcodes API for an explanation.

My PHP isn’t working

Make sure the checkbox that says “Execute PHP on this hook” is checked.

If so, be sure to wrap any PHP code in <?php ?> tags. That’s how the system recognizes code that needs to be executed as PHP.

The plugin won’t activate

You must have Genesis or a Genesis child theme installed and activated on your site.

Review feed

prashaddey
9/3/2016

Great Plugin!

Great Plugin!

Screenshots

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Changelog

2.3.0

  • Reorganize plugin based on our standard boilerplate.
  • Update to match WordPress PHP standards.
  • Fix bug where plugin name was empty in the minimum version warning.
  • Increase minimum Genesis version to 2.5.0.

2.2.1

  • Genesis 2.6+ compatibility (prevents white screen).
  • Remove reference to deprecated function.

2.2.0

  • Rewrite plugin based on new plugin boilerplate.
  • Added new hooks.
  • Require unfiltered_html capability to execute PHP.
  • Better Genesis dependency handling.
  • Change activation hook to conditional admin notice.
  • Allow hooks to be de-registered via filter.

2.1.2

  • Load textdomain
  • Add plugin header i18n

2.1.1

  • Generate POT file.

2.1.0

  • Increased requirement to Genesis 2.1.0.
  • Site title and description hooks.
  • Fixed outdated hook descriptions.

2.0.1

  • Genesis 2.0 favicon unhook location fix.

2.0.0

  • Updated to use new entry hooks in Genesis 2.0.
  • Remove unused boxes.php file.

1.8.0.2

  • Fixed yet another fatal error but for people using less than Genesis 1.8.0. It should now deactivate gracefully.

1.8.0.1

  • Removed an unnecessary version compare check that was causing some fatal errors.

1.8.0

  • Increased requirement to Genesis 1.8.0.
  • Switched over to the Genesis 1.8 admin menu class to build admin menu.

1.7.1

  • Increased requirement to Genesis 1.7.1
  • Fixed display issues in the admin screen
  • Added new hooks to the defaults array
  • Whitespace, standards, and documentation

1.6

  • Increased requirement to Genesis 1.6
  • Fixed bug with things not unhooking

1.4

  • Increased requirement to Genesis 1.4
  • Fixed undefined index bug in functions.php

1.3.1.1

  • Reduce requirement to Genesis 1.3
  • Increase requirement to WordPress 3.0

1.3.1

  • Bump to match Genesis version
  • Require Genesis 1.3.1
  • Added new unhook options
  • Fixed bug with foreign language compatibility

1.2

  • Bump to match Genesis version
  • Require Genesis 1.2.1
  • Update hooks for Genesis 1.2.1

0.9

  • Add new hooks, remove deprecated hooks
  • Fix textarea bug with HTML entities
  • Bump to pre-release 0.9 branch

0.1

  • Initial Release