# Hooks

Hooks are a way for one piece of code to interact/modify another piece of code at specific, pre-defined spots. 

You can read more about how to use Hooks in the [Plugin Developer Handbook](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/hooks/).

The reference guides below are a list of action and filter hooks available in WordPress.

<a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/action-reference/" data-type="link" data-id="https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/action-reference/">Action Reference</a>

<a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/filter-reference/" data-type="link" data-id="https://developer.wordpress.org/apis/filter-reference/">Filter Reference</a>