[wp-hackers] Edit Template Tags with Plugin

[SoJ Web]

I think this would be really tricky. Any solution would have to  
involved output buffering because those template files virtually  
always include script (unless you wanted to filter script). The  
functions you mentioned all have a do_action hook, so it might be  
possible to hook into that, turn on output buffering, load the files,  
process the buffer, and then output it. After the hook, WordPress will  
still try to load the files, but it uses a require_once, so that  
probably won't do anything.

Out of curiosity, what would this be used for?


-Jeff

On Apr 17, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Aaron Jorbin wrote:

> Hi
>
> I was at the Portland Wordpress User Group meeting tonight and brought
> up a question and Lorelle said that this might be the best place for
> it.  Any assistance that can be provided would of course be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> What I am hoping to do is create a plugin that can filter the content
> of theme files similiarly to
>
> add_filter('the_content','a_filter');
>
> The goal is to essentially allow for the plugin to modify the results
> of the get_header(), get_footer() and get_sidebar() template tags, but
> I haven't figured out how to do that.  I've tried
>
> remove_action('get_header', 'load_template');
>
> and replacing it with a function that would do what I would like, but
> that doesn't work.  Does anyone have any advice on if this is
> possible?  Anyone know if there are any plugins currently doing this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips that anyone is able to provide.
> Aaron Jorbin
> aaron.jorbin at gmail.com
> Twitter: @aaronjorbin
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