Section / Hook Label	Hook Name	Hooked Functions	Priority
Start Wrap Container
Before Wrap Container	bioship_before_container
Wrap Container Open	bioship_container_open	bioship_skeleton_wrapper_open	5
Header
Before Header Area	bioship_before_header	bioship_skeleton_top_banner bioship_skeleton_secondary_menu	2 8
Main Header	bioship_header	bioship_skeleton_header_open bioship_skeleton_header_nav bioship_skeleton_echo_clear_div bioship_skeleton_header_logo bioship_skeleton_header_widgets bioship_skeleton_header_extras bioship_skeleton_header_close	0 2 3 4 6 8 10
Before Header Widgets	bioship_before_header_widgets
Header Widget Area Template	bioship_header_sidebar
After Header Widgets	bioship_after_header_widgets
After Header Area	bioship_after_header	bioship_skeleton_header_banner	5
Navigation Bar
Before Main NavBar	bioship_before_navbar
Main Navigation Bar	bioship_navbar	bioship_skeleton_main_menu_open bioship_skeleton_main_menu bioship_skeleton_sidebar_button bioship_skeleton_main_menu_button bioship_skeleton_subsidebar_button bioship_skeleton_main_menu_close	0 2 4 6 8 10
After Main NavBar	bioship_after_navbar	bioship_skeleton_echo_clear_div bioship_skeleton_navbar_banner	8 4
Primary Sidebar
Before Primary Sidebar	bioship_before_sidebar	bioship_skeleton_sidebar_open	5
Sidebar Widget Template	bioship_sidebar
After Primary Sidebar	bioship_after_sidebar	bioship_skeleton_sidebar_close	5
Subsidiary Sidebar
Before Subsidiary Sidebar	bioship_before_subsidebar	bioship_skeleton_subsidebar_open	5
SubSidebar Widget Template	bioship_subsidebar
After Subsidiary Sidebar	bioship_after_subsidebar	bioship_skeleton_subsidebar_close	5
Start Content Area
Before Content Area	bioship_before_content	bioship_skeleton_content_open	10
Frontpage Only Top	bioship_front_page_top	bioship_skeleton_front_page_content	5
Home (Blog) Only Top	bioship_home_page_top	bioship_skeleton_home_page_content	5
Before Any Loop	bioship_before_loop	bioship_skeleton_breadcrumbs	5
Before Any Archive Loop	bioship_before_archive
Before Category Archive Loop	bioship_before_category
Before Taxonomy Archive Loop	bioship_before_taxonomy
Before Tag Archive Loop	bioship_before_tags
Before Author Archive Loop	bioship_before_author	bioship_skeleton_author_bio_top	5
Before Date Archive Loop	bioship_before_date
Start Entry Loop
Before Entry	bioship_before_entry
Media Handler Action	bioship_media_handler	bioship_skeleton_media_handler	5
Entry Header Hook	bioship_entry_header	bioship_skeleton_entry_header_open bioship_skeleton_entry_header_title bioship_skeleton_entry_header_subtitle bioship_skeleton_entry_header_meta bioship_skeleton_entry_header_close	0 2 4 6 10
Thumbnail or Featured Image	bioship_thumbnail	bioship_skeleton_echo_thumbnail	5
Before Thumbnail *	bioship_before_thumbnail
Thumbnail	bioship_echo_thumbnail
After Thumbnail *	bioship_after_thumbnail
Post Excerpts
Before Excerpt	bioship_before_excerpt
Main Excerpt	bioship_the_excerpt	bioship_skeleton_echo_the_excerpt	5
Excerpt Content	bioship_excerpt
After Excerpt	bioship_after_excerpt
Entry Footer	bioship_entry_footer	bioship_skeleton_entry_footer_open bioship_skeleton_entry_footer_meta bioship_skeleton_entry_footer_close	0 6 10
Singular Content
Breadcrumbs	bioship_before_singular	bioship_skeleton_breadcrumbs	5
Author Bio Top Position	bioship_author_bio_top
Before Author Bio *	bioship_before_author_bio
Author Bio Content	bioship_author_bio
After Author Bio *	bioship_after_author_bio
Before the Content	bioship_before_the_content
Main Content	bioship_the_content	bioship_skeleton_echo_the_content	5
Main Content	bioship_content
After the Content	bioship_after_the_content
Author Bio Bottom Position	bioship_author_bio_bottom
After Singular Content	bioship_after_singular
Before Comments	bioship_before_comments
Comment Content	bioship_comments
After Comments	bioship_after_comments
End Entry Loop
After Entry	bioship_after_entry
Page Navigation	bioship_page_navi	bioship_skeleton_page_navigation	5
After Date Archive Loop	bioship_after_date
After Author Archive Loop	bioship_after_author	bioship_skeleton_author_bio_bottom	5
After Tag Archive Loop	bioship_after_tags
After Taxonomy Archive Loop	bioship_after_taxonomy
After Category Archive Loop	bioship_after_category
After Any Archive Loop	bioship_after_archive
After Any Loop	bioship_after_loop
Frontpage Only Top	bioship_front_page_bottom	bioship_skeleton_front_page_footnote	5
Home (Blog) Only Top	bioship_home_page_bottom	skeleton_home_page_footnote	5
After Content	bioship_after_content	bioship_skeleton_content_close bioship_skeleton_echo_clear_div	0 2
Footer
Before Footer	bioship_before_footer	bioship_skeleton_footer_banner bioship_skeleton_echo_clear_div	5 10
Main Footer	bioship_footer	bioship_skeleton_footer_open bioship_skeleton_footer_extras bioship_skeleton_footer_widgets bioship_skeleton_footer_nav bioship_skeleton_footer_credits bioship_skeleton_footer_close	0 2 4 6 8 10
Before Footer Widget	bioship_before_footer_widgets
Footer Widget Area Template	bioship_footer_widgets
After Footer Widget	bioship_after_footer_widgets
After Footer	bioship_after_footer	bioship_skeleton_bottom_banner	5
End Wrap Container
Main Container Close	bioship_container_close	bioship_skeleton_wrapper_close	5
After Wrap Container	bioship_after_container

Hybrid Hook

All hooks are automatically made available to the Hybrid Hook plugin (modified for BioShip.) When activated (via Theme Options -> Skeleton -> Hybrid) you can access Appearance -> Hybrid Hook. This allows you to easily add content (Text, HTML, or Shortcode) to any of the Layout Hook sections. (You can also specify a priority if you need to insert between existing hooked functions.)

Manually Adding Functions

You can of course simply add your own functions to any of the available hooks with a few lines of code, in the form:

add_action('{hook_name}', '{function_name}', {priority});

For example, to add a simple welcome message:

add_action('bioship_after_header', 'custom_after_header_function', 5);
function custom_after_header_function() {echo 'Welcome!';}

Or for an existing shortcode function called welcome_shortcode:

add_action('bioship_after_header', 'custom_welcome_shortcode', 5);
function custom_welcome_shortcode() {echo do_shortcode('[welcome_shortcode']);}

Reordering Layout Functions

If something is hooked in the wrong position for your desired layout, you can change it's position with a filter.
Priority filters have the same name as the function appended with _position:

add_filter('bioship_header_widgets_position', 'custom_header_widgets_position');
function custom_header_widgets_position() {return 2;}

OR more directly with an anonymous function:

add_filter('bioship_header_widgets_position', function(){return 2;} );

Removing Layout Functions

If you change the hooked function priority via filter to -1 and it will not be added. eg.

add_filter('bioship_header_widgets_position', function(){return -1;} );

You can also remove any of the hooked functions you can do so using bioship_remove_action
This is a wrapper for WordPress remove_action with the filtered priority calculated automatically.

bioship_remove_action('bioship_header', 'bioship_header_widgets');

Note: while you can do the same manually without using bioship_remove_action you would need to
delay the removal until after the action has been added or it will not actually be removed.
Practically speaking, this means wrapping in a further check in your functions.php eg.

add_action('init', 'custom_layout_femovals');
function custom_layout_removals() {
	remove_action('bioship_header', 'bioship_header_widgets', 6);
}

Replacing Layout Functions

If something is hooked in the wrong section for your desired layout, you can remove it and reinsert it.
Note again you would need to delay the removal or use bioship_remove_action which auto-delays for you.

bioship_remove_action('bioship_header', 'bioship_header_widgets');
add_action('bioship_navbar', 'bioship_header_widgets', 2);

Header / Footer Extra HTML

You can also add extra HTML to the Header / Footer HTML sections using filters.
These are throwbacks from a previous implementation but are still available for use.
Filters: bioship_header_html_extras and bioship_footer_html_extras, eg:

add_filter('bioship_header_html_extra', 'custom_header_html_extras');
function custom_header_html_extras() {return '<div>Div Content</div>';}

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