[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10804: New action activate_theme

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#10804: New action activate_theme
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 Reporter:  chrisbliss18  |       Owner:                                   
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Unassigned                       
Component:  Themes        |     Version:                                   
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  theme,activation,action,has-patch
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 The switch_theme action can be used as a (poorly named) theme deactivation
 action, but there isn't an action to latch into when a new theme is
 activated.

 This results in people using code that watches for
 themes.php?activated=true in order to latch their theme activation code
 to. While this is functional, it has two primary problems:

  * It is highly-unnecessary to run that check on every admin page (I've
 even seen some not limit that check to admin only) when a simple action
 would be easier to use and wouldn't rely on all that consistent checking.
  * While the way the themes.php page may not change, it is still poor
 practice to tie important code to something that could easily change in
 the future.

 I have a simple patch that adds an activate_theme action. This action
 passes along the name of the activated theme in case any non-theme code
 may be interested.

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