New version of WHex (WordPress Hook Explorer) for WordPress 3.0

[dgwyer]

I have just updated my WordPress Hook Explorer utility application (developed in Silverlight) to cover all the new action/filter hooks in WordPress 3.0, with over 100 new hooks featured.

There has been some modification to the UI as well, and now you can double click any hook to go to the relevant source code file where the hook is defined (you previously had to select the hook with the left mouse button and right click to go to the source).

You can check out WHeX v0.9 here: http://www.presscoders.com/wordpress-applications/whex/

Feedback is welcomed. The next task will be to add syntax highlighting to the source code with line numbers. Also, when you double click a hook you will be taken to the correct line number.

I plan to do another application covering all the general functions of WordPress. In the future all my WordPress Silverlight applications will feature OOB support (Out Of Browser) so that they can be used offline. This is something the Ajax versions of WordPress utility applications can't provide so is an advantage for client side Silverlight applications of this type (as the XML data files are loaded with the application).

Hope you guys find WHeX useful.

David

[dgwyer]

Just updated the 'WordPress Hook Explorer' application again, and the source code is now in (coloured) highlighted text and when a hook is double clicked you automatically get taken to the hook line number in the source code file. :)

http://www.presscoders.com/wordpress-applications/whex/

I am planning to do another application that will let users explore WordPress functions in a similar way, and another couple of applications one of which will allow users to edit WordPress code and have Visual Studio like intellisense features that allow show what functions are available etc.

This would make authoring Plugin and theme code much easier as you would always have tools to look-up WordPress functions and insert them directly from within the source code editor. What I would be interested to know is, would users prefer this as a desktop application (i.e. very fast, functional, robust, no internet connection needed), or as an online application (i.e. perhaps a bit slower, almost the same functionality, need an internet connection - but possibly would be available as an out-of-browser application with no net connection needed).

[Shadow]

"Sorry, but what you are looking for isn't here..."

:/

[dgwyer]

It's back up now... :)

Exceeded bandwidth for last month!!

[andreasnrb]

Nice and fast. But I think when you switch from All to actions/filters the search should be repeated instead of reset.
Also any chance of getting a copy paste for the hook also?
as in you do ctrl c and it returns add_action('asdasd',); or add_filter

OOB can be imitated with Google Chrome ;).

[dgwyer]

Nice and fast. But I think when you switch from All to actions/filters the search should be repeated instead of reset.
Also any chance of getting a copy paste for the hook also?
as in you do ctrl c and it returns add_action('asdasd',); or add_filter

Thanks for the suggestions, they have been added to the to-do-list. :)

OOB can be imitated with Google Chrome ;).

How does this work? Not really used Chrome that much apart from browser compatibility testing. OOB for Silverlight means that you don't need an internet connection necessarily to run the application. Even using Chrome the application would have to be altered somewhat to fully support OOB as the source code for the hook code is pulled from the server. The search would still work however as this is loaded with the application during initialisation.

[andreasnrb]

You can make a shortcut so you get a barebones loading of a page with Google Chrome. So all you see is the webpage.
http://www.google.com/support/chrome...n&answer=95710

[Jeffro]

Seems like a pretty cool resource for the developer types. Instead of looking up filters, actions, etc, this tool is specifically meant for hooks.