[wp-hackers] wp_head()

[Haluk Karamete]

Excellent reply. I now know what's happening in those critical mile
stones. Thank you so much!

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Eric Mann <eric at eam.me> wrote:
> wp_head() defines a the hook used by plug-ins and themes to add information
> to the header.  WordPress kicks in a long time before header.php is even
> loaded.
>
> When you visit a site, you're visiting the index.php file in the root, which
> loads WordPress and processes the query.  Then WordPress loads the index.php
> file for your theme and that file calls get_header() which loads header.php.
>  You're already a long way down the pipe by now and have access to just
> about everything and every function defined by WordPress.
>
> WordPress decides what the current page is before picking the theme.  This
> is when WordPress decides whether to call your theme's index.php (general
> requests), single.php (individual posts), page.php (pages), etc.
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Before the header.php runs wp_head(), information such as the current
>> page's title can be outputted... How is this possible? I thought, wp
>> kicks in with the wp_head()!
>>
>> Also, what file or function figures out whether the current page is a
>> single, category, tag, 404 etc.. Is that done before the ball is
>> passed to the theme? or is it done at .htaccss/web.config time?
>>
>> Thx.
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