Best action hooks plugins for WordPress
The most popular action hooks plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Visual Hook Guide for Kadence leads with 400+ active installs, ahead of Hookie for Woocommerce (10+) and Action Hooks (10+). All 5 plugins tagged “action hooks” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 action hooks plugins
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Visual Hook Guide for KadenceThe most installed action hooks plugin, with 400+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
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Hookie for Woocommerce10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 3.
Action Hooks10+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
All 5 plugins tagged “action hooks”
Visual Hook Guide for Kadence
Down in the last 7 days:47#9,439by Sridhar Katakam3 years ago
Find Kadence action hooks quickly and easily by seeing their actual locations inside your Kadence theme.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hookie for Woocommerce
Up in the last 7 days:2,052#41,784by Mirco Babini10 years ago
Enables specific WooCommerce hooks to get shown into the page dom [Extension of Hookie (Visual Hook Reference)].
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Action Hooks
#46,693by Dinesh Chouhan9 years ago
Action Hooks will helps to add HTML markup on any action from Customizer with Live Preview.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day