running a function on theme activation in functions.php

  • legend411

    (@legend411)


    14 years, 10 months 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?

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  • Thread Starter legend411

    (@legend411)

    14 years, 10 months 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?

    wesg

    (@wesg)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    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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