What is the difference between the after_setup_theme
and init
action hooks? It seems they are both called right before any page in WordPress is loaded (even admin pages).
after_setup_theme
action hook is fired before the actual $wp->init();
which Set up the current user and only then init
action hook is fired which means that they are pretty much the same with one major difference and that is at after_setup_theme
the user is not authenticated, and at init
he is (assuming that we are talking about an actual user).