drumatic

yes it get’s activated most of the times, even when it can’t create a table or something, but i can’t tell the user why it happened..

i will take a look at that plugin thanks.

but it would be nicer if you could return a WP_Error or string that get’s displayed, without nasty hacks..

i did a little hack to output messages:

add this to your plugin_activation function:

add_option( ‘myplugin_msg’, ‘Error: Something went wrong’);

function myplugin_message() {
	if ( $msg = get_option('myplugin_msg') && $_REQUEST['activate'] == 'true' ) {

		echo '
		<script type="text/javascript">
			var el = document.getElementById(\'message\');
			el.innerHTML = el.innerHTML + \'<p>'. $msg . '</p>\';
		</script>';		

		delete_option('myplugin_msg');
	}
}

add_action( 'wp_print_footer_scripts', 'myplugin_message' );

i now dynamicly create pages on plugin activation and put a shortcode into content, people can then place pages whereever they like to.

what kind of a number do you want there instead of a date ?

do you have performance problems already ? as long you don’t, don’t mind..

when you get problems, just add %year% or %month% maybe ?