After developing some plugins for myself, some of them is ready to be published. For all, I’ve written deactivation functions, which deletes the set options, the database, etc. after themselves. But I’m having doubts about the reason for these, for example, what if it’s only a temporary inactivation? What do you think, does a process … Read more
When my plugin is deactivated, I want to get a confirmation from the user whether all plugin options/tables need to be deleted or left as it is. Based on the option selected, I want to proceed further. Is it possible ? If yes, how ? 2 Answers 2 I have implemented a workaround with JavaScript. … Read more
I want to show a notice to the user and deactivate my plugin, using OOP code style, if the user has a PHP version less than 5.4. The code works fine when I create my plugin using non-OOP. It shows an warning to the user and deactivate the plugin and prevents user from activating the … Read more
I’m using the following code to deactivate my WordPress Plugin if the requirements are not met public function activate() { if (!$this->check_requirements()) { deactivate_plugins(plugin_basename(__FILE__)); wp_redirect(admin_url(‘plugins.php’)); exit; } } The function activate() is called when the plug-in is activated. I want to add a message to the user explaining what happened. Is there a way to … Read more
I’m customizing a WooCommerce theme and am going to be moving the title. There is an action in content-single-product.php called: do_action( ‘woocommerce_single_product_summary’ ); in the woocommerce_hooks.php file the title action is: add_action( ‘woocommerce_single_product_summary’, ‘woocommerce_template_single_title’, 5 ); I can easily comment this out and place the title function where I need to. I’d prefer to disable … Read more
I’m developing a custom BuddyPress/WordPress Plugin. Here’s how a user would normally register. A user registers as usual on registration page His/Her account is deactivated till he/she clicks on activation link in his/her email He/She is sent an activation link through the email he/she registered with He/She activates his account by clicking on the link … Read more
The description for register_uninstall_hook‘s $callback parameter states: Must be a static method or function.1 There is no such comment for register_activation_hook or register_deactivation_hook. However, in the Codex entry for register_activation_hook there is an example that reads: Or, because the activation hook requires a static function, if you’re inside of a __construct():2 In a GitHub issue, … Read more
I’m making a WordPress plugin. What are typical things I should include in the uninstall feature? For example, should I delete any tables I created in the install function? Do I clean up my option entries? Anything else? There are three different hooks. They trigger in the following cases: Uninstall Deactivation Activation How-to trigger functions … Read more
