newbie- edited templates, mods and upgrades

[doob]

We are removing or commenting out a fair amount of code as well.

I took a look at another thread relating to "Automatic Edits" and it looks like the 2 options are

1) just go ahead and make edits to the php and html directly in the templates

2) create plugins for every bit of code you want to insert and then place the plugin name (something like: $plugin) into the appropriate portion of the templates code to call on it.

I don't see how option 2 is universally usefull if the modifications include both adding as well as removing original code.

How would you use a plugin to delete or comment out a section of code in a template?

Also how would you define a "hook".

Thanks again Lynn.