Fatal error when programmatically deactivating a plugin

  • Resolved Gregor Capuder

    (@capuderg)


    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    our user got the fatal error below when they tried to activate our WP Mail SMTP Pro version over the Lite version. We prevent that in our plugin and deactivate the Pro version automatically (in code).

    
 PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_user_by() in .../wp-content/plugins/aryo-activity-log/classes/class-aal-api.php:89

    If you inspect that code you will see that you are using get_user_by function. But because this deactivation happens very early on in the process of WP this function is not yet defined by WP core. You’ll need to require the pluggable.php WP core file in your insert function, to prevent this error from happening:

    require_once ABSPATH . WPINC . '/pluggable.php';

    I hope you can include this fix in your upcoming plugin update.

    Thank you and take care!

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  • Plugin Author Yakir Sitbon

    (@kingyes)

    Hi @capuderg,

    The plugin listens to the WP actions. When it is fired, assume all WP dependencies are loaded.

    You can deactivate the plugin by selecting one of two options (possibly more):
    – Remove the activated plugins from the database (Not recommended).
    – Remove the plugin by sending a request. If you would like to deactivate the plugin, please include the other functions before doing so. Its AAL Plugin currently sends an error, but another plugin will do it tomorrow.

    Let me know if that needs to be improved.

    Thanks

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