Maybe using the wp_redirect() function in the activation hook. In the following example myplugin_settings is a placeholder. Normally this simply is the $hook_suffix you get back from $hook_suffix = add_menu_page( /* etc. */ ); and similar functions. THIS CODE DOESN’T WORK, READ BELOW register_activation_hook(__FILE__, ‘cyb_activation’); function cyb_activation() { // Don’t forget to exit() … Read more
I fixed this by going through PHPMyAdmin to the table “Options” and then the row active_plugins. I had the following stored there (formatted for readability): a:10:{ i:0;s:49:”1and1-wordpress-wizard/1and1-wordpress-wizard.php”; i:1;s:29:”acf-repeater/acf-repeater.php”; i:2;s:30:”advanced-custom-fields/acf.php”; i:3;s:45:”limit-login-attempts/limit-login-attempts.php”; i:4;s:27:”redirection/redirection.php”; i:6;s:33:”w3-total-cache/w3-total-cache.php”; i:7;s:41:”wordpress-importer/wordpress-importer.php”; i:8;s:24:”wordpress-seo/wp-seo.php”; i:9;s:34:”wpml-string-translation/plugin.php”; i:10;s:38:”wpml-translation-management/plugin.php”; } I added a new line (for the missing plugin) and incremented the a:10 to a:11 to indicate that … Read more
This is how I did it in some web apps: function run_activate_plugin( $plugin ) { $current = get_option( ‘active_plugins’ ); $plugin = plugin_basename( trim( $plugin ) ); if ( !in_array( $plugin, $current ) ) { $current[] = $plugin; sort( $current ); do_action( ‘activate_plugin’, trim( $plugin ) ); update_option( ‘active_plugins’, $current ); do_action( ‘activate_’ . trim( … Read more
There are three different hooks. They trigger in the following cases: Uninstall Deactivation Activation How-to trigger functions safely during the scenarios The following shows the right ways to safely hook callback functions that get triggered during the mentioned actions. As you could use this code in a plugin that uses plain functions, a class or … Read more