Posted 3 years ago #
I've made plugins before that ran a function on plugin activation, by hooking into the activate action, like this:
add_action('activate_plugin-name.php', 'function-name');
but I was wondering if there was a action I could hook into to run a function in the functions.php file of a theme, to run that function when the theme is activated (specifically, to build a table in the database).
Can anyone help?
Posted 3 years ago #
well, i supposed I could do
add_action('wp_head','function-name')
Given my purpose (creating a table in the db) it will work so long as i do IF NOT EXISTS in my sql statement in the function... but its still going to be running the query every time a page loads, I imagine thats pretty poor practice.
Anyone have suggestions?
I know this post is very old, but I was looking for a similar thing. It seems that the hook register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'function'); does not work for themes. Is there an alternative?
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