Registering an Object’s Method to a WordPress Event Hook

Now that you know how to make an object’s method a callback, let’s apply it to registering a method to a WordPress event. You’ll look in WordPress Core where it is using call_user_func_array(). Therefore, the same syntax rules and approach applies for you register it to a specific event.

You’ll see how the object’s method is registered and added to the WordPress Event Registry, which is stored in $wp_filter. You’ll see how the key for it includes the object’s ID plus the method name. You’ll see the array is used as $the_['function'].