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Hooks and Filters

WordPress hooks, theme filters, and extension points found in Epiktetos.

Epiktetos relies on standard WordPress actions and filters plus a small set of theme-specific filters.

Theme-specific filters

Filter	Purpose
`epiktetos_hero_categories`	Change the category slugs considered for homepage hero slides.
`epiktetos_hero_post_id`	Override the selected hero post.
`epiktetos_hero_show_category`	Control whether the hero category label is shown.
`epiktetos_hero_show_excerpt`	Control whether the hero excerpt is shown.
`epiktetos_hero_cta_label`	Change the hero call-to-action label.
`epiktetos_latest_count`	Change the number of latest posts shown.

Action	Theme usage
`after_setup_theme`	Theme supports, menus, editor styles, translations.
`after_switch_theme`	Default menu seeding and activation wizard setup.
`wp_enqueue_scripts`	Front-end CSS and JavaScript loading.
`wp_body_open`	Skip link output.
`wp_head`	Font preload, header no-FOUC CSS, dynamic CSS, favicons, SEO metadata.
`init`	Shortcodes, rewrite rules, canonical handling, and class setup.
`rest_api_init`	Search REST route registration.
`admin_menu`	Appearance > Epiktetos admin pages.
`admin_init`	Settings registration and admin actions.
`save_post_post`	SEO intelligence and reader/cache updates.

Filter	Theme usage
`body_class`	Header/theme-mode body classes.
`pre_get_document_title`	SEO title output.
`wp_robots`	SEO robots control.
`comments_open`	Comment setting behavior.
`option_thread_comments`	Threaded comment setting behavior.
`option_thread_comments_depth`	Comment depth setting behavior.
`query_vars`	Saved reader route query variable.
`template_include`	Saved reader PHP template selection.
`upload_mimes`	SVG upload support for branding.
`pre_handle_404`	Archive, tag, and author 404 behavior in specific cases.

Code

add_filter( 'epiktetos_latest_count', function () {
    return 8;
} );

Use filters from a child theme or small site plugin so updates to the parent theme remain manageable.