Hooks are meant for programmers to be able to execute their code in specific situation.
Shortcodes are meant to provide the user an easy way to ‘invoke’ the functionality of a plugin (e.g. putting the shortcode in a post’s content and having it display a list of posts in a specific category).
Thanks, Michael. I understand the purpose. I used to program in different environments, but websites/WP/themes environment is new to me. My question was from performance and maintenance point of view… There are situations where a similar functionality is offered through widgets, hooks and shorthands, and I am trying to understand what’s best from performance and maintenance point of view?
I would guess shortcodes/plugins are slower that hooks.
As far as maintenance, from an user standpoint shortcodes/widgets would be preferred.
