Efficiency of Genesis Hooks vs. Theme Templates

[GSmith84]

I've been building genesis child themes for some time now. It's my goto for development of client sites. But I'm curious about the efficiency of using Genesis Hooks in certain instances.

Lets say I want to heavily customize the Front Page, wordpress by default will check the theme for front_page.php template, but I don't commonly create theme template files when using genesis. But I wonder is it a performance hit if I've assigned a lot of actions under a conditional umbrella.

In this example instead of front_page.php I use:

function fp_conditions() {
	if ( is_front_page() || is_home() ) {

/* All Front Page Functions here */
		function fp_top_section() {
		}
		add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'fp_top_section' );

	}
}
add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'fp_conditions' );

Now all my front page design elements are in this one action fp_conditions. But if I use conditions for custom category stuff, custom search stuff, custom 404 stuff etc... I'll have multiple actions hooking into genesis for conditions to check the operation taking place instead of wordpress loading their respective theme template.

Are these good practices or should I be creating theme templates to prevent hooking many conditions into genesis.

[Christoph]

Hi,

rule of thumb:
if you are using certain functions only on a specific a page, create a page template.
You will still use hooks in the page template.
Makes it easier to read the functions.php and certain code is only processed when you hit the template.

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[GSmith84]

I forgot to say thank you.

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