Checking the feasibility of integration

This is the first step, where we explore the available hooks for integration. In the Creating addons section, we identified the limitations of the post attachments plugin due to lack of actions and filters. We might face similar situations in plugins integration, where the second plugin doesn't provide necessary hooks to integrate with the features of the first plugin. In such a case, our only option is to add custom hooks to one of the plugins. Even though it's not recommended and difficult to manage, developers use this method when there are no other alternatives.

Assume that we use a frontend login plugin, and a content restriction plugin with a private page for each user. By default, the login plugin ...

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