[wp-hackers] plugin loading order (rfc)

Sabin Iacob iacobs at m0n5t3r.info
Sun Mar 11 16:23:11 GMT 2007


Peter Westwood wrote:
> Sabin Iacob wrote:
>> While working on a plugin, I hit an interesting issue: there is no 
>> other way to alter the order in which plugins are loaded than 
>> changing the file name.
> If you need to check for existance of other pluggins do in on the 
> "init" hook - i.e. once everyone is loaded.

hmm, you have a point; however, there are other benefits to adding some 
checks at activation time (improving user experience is one of them: you 
would increase chances that if a plugin can be activated it will 
actually work).


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