Title: Plugin hooks for Plugin activity
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin hooks for Plugin activity

 *  [Johnb81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnb81/)
 * (@johnb81)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hooks-for-plugin-activity/)
 * I would like to know if there are any hooks available which can be used to detect
   other WordPress plugins activity. Basically I would like to trigger an action
   when an administrator:
 * 1. installs a plugin
    2. activates a plugin 3. deactivates a plugin 4. Uninstalls/
   deletes a plugin
 * Thanks in advance for your answers.

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hooks-for-plugin-activity/#post-3704097)
 * There are ‘activated_plugin’ and ‘deactivated_plugin’ actions. I’m unaware of
   a way to detect if the files were simply installed. There is a ‘uninstall_{$file}’
   action, but of course you need to know what $file is. In any case, it’s possible
   to add or delete plugin files without WP being involved at all, so install and
   uninstall actions would be unreliable.

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 * In: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
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 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hooks-for-plugin-activity/#post-3704097)
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