Wordpress - How to get WordPress' hooks/actions run sequence?
"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
-The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
So let's gather some real data from an install with no plugins and the TwentyTwelve theme activated with only a single Text widget.
For the home page the following do_action
calls are made in the following order:
muplugins_loaded
registered_taxonomy
registered_taxonomy
registered_taxonomy
registered_taxonomy
registered_taxonomy
registered_post_type
registered_post_type
registered_post_type
registered_post_type
registered_post_type
plugins_loaded
sanitize_comment_cookies
setup_theme
unload_textdomain
load_textdomain
after_setup_theme
load_textdomain
load_textdomain
auth_cookie_malformed
auth_cookie_valid
set_current_user
init
registered_post_type
registered_post_type
registered_post_type
registered_post_type
registered_post_type
registered_taxonomy
registered_taxonomy
registered_taxonomy
registered_taxonomy
registered_taxonomy
widgets_init
register_sidebar
register_sidebar
register_sidebar
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_register_sidebar_widget
wp_loaded
parse_tax_query
parse_tax_query
posts_selection
template_redirect
admin_bar_init
add_admin_bar_menus
get_header
wp_head
wp_enqueue_scripts
wp_print_styles
wp_print_scripts
get_template_part_content
begin_fetch_post_thumbnail_html
end_fetch_post_thumbnail_html
get_template_part_content
get_template_part_content
get_template_part_content
get_template_part_content
get_template_part_content
get_template_part_content
get_template_part_content
get_template_part_content
get_template_part_content
begin_fetch_post_thumbnail_html
end_fetch_post_thumbnail_html
get_sidebar
dynamic_sidebar_before
dynamic_sidebar
dynamic_sidebar_after
get_footer
twentytwelve_credits
wp_footer
wp_print_footer_scripts
wp_before_admin_bar_render
wp_after_admin_bar_render
shutdown
If you want to check the order of actions and how many times each one is fired, then you can use for example:
add_action( 'shutdown', function(){
print_r( $GLOBALS['wp_actions'] );
});
or this prettified version:
add_action( 'shutdown', function(){
foreach( $GLOBALS['wp_actions'] as $action => $count )
printf( '%s (%d) <br/>' . PHP_EOL, $action, $count );
});
to get the following list:
muplugins_loaded (1)
registered_taxonomy (10)
registered_post_type (10)
plugins_loaded (1)
sanitize_comment_cookies (1)
setup_theme (1)
unload_textdomain (1)
load_textdomain (3)
after_setup_theme (1)
auth_cookie_malformed (1)
auth_cookie_valid (1)
set_current_user (1)
init (1)
widgets_init (1)
register_sidebar (3)
wp_register_sidebar_widget (12)
wp_loaded (1)
parse_request (1)
send_headers (1)
parse_tax_query (2)
parse_query (1)
pre_get_posts (1)
posts_selection (1)
wp (1)
template_redirect (1)
wp_default_scripts (1)
wp_default_styles (1)
admin_bar_init (1)
add_admin_bar_menus (1)
get_header (1)
wp_head (1)
wp_enqueue_scripts (1)
wp_print_styles (1)
wp_print_scripts (1)
loop_start (1)
the_post (10)
get_template_part_content (10)
begin_fetch_post_thumbnail_html (2)
end_fetch_post_thumbnail_html (2)
loop_end (1)
get_sidebar (1)
dynamic_sidebar_before (1)
dynamic_sidebar (1)
dynamic_sidebar_after (1)
get_footer (1)
twentytwelve_credits (1)
wp_footer (1)
wp_print_footer_scripts (1)
admin_bar_menu (1)
wp_before_admin_bar_render (1)
wp_after_admin_bar_render (1)
shutdown (1)
PS: You should also check out the great Query Monitor plugin by John Blackbourn. (I'm not related to this plugin)
Here is the WordPress load chart
→ Source by @Rarst
Found Solution!
Thanks @birgire for nice answer. I will add to that, muplugins_loaded
sometimes is not fired, so I will use plugins_loaded
as the most first hook (but at that time, user-authorization is not done yet. If you want to check user's authorization, then init
is the earliest for that)...
p.s. there exist excellent plugins:
1) Query Monitor - You can see everything what happens on the page-load, i.e. duration of each executed function and much more(view all screenshots on plugin page):
2) WP-DEBUG-BAR + WP-DEBUG-SLOW-ACTIONS:
a) debug hooks(actions) run list on your site.
b) See duration of each action (not function):