Should everything in functions.php be hooked or filtered?

Question

Considering how often functions.php is called, shouldn't all of its contents be hooked or filtered into core WP functions like init?

@trnsfrmr - Can you clarify your question? I'm not really clear what you are asking. As opposed to what? What are you trying to avoid? I ask because I'd like to retitle this question so that it is clearly to whomever sees it what you are asking.

Denis · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-22 11:40:51Z

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It can be used for much about anything that requires php...

You'd only use hooks if you don't want to execute the php logic immediately. This is usually the case, but not always.

Likewise, you'd typically use the WP API. But not always either...

answered Oct 22 '10 at 11:40

Denis
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	If code is not hooked or filtered, then isn't it constantly re-writing over itself? Isn't that inefficient in some way? – jnthnclrk Oct 22 '10 at 11:48
	All of the code is processed and compiled on every run (except when opcode caching is used), that is normal way to operate for PHP. Amount of code in `functions.php` is usually insignificant in comparison to whole WP engine. – Rarst♦ Oct 22 '10 at 12:17
	OK, I'll stop worrying about it then. – jnthnclrk Oct 22 '10 at 12:32

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