Documentation error for activate_plugin hook

[wedi]

The documentation for the activate_plugin hook is erroneous. In the beginning it says that the hook gets fired on plugin deactivation. When you read further it suddenly says activation. This is probably a simple copy&paste error.

​http://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/activate_plugin/

This might be the wrong place to report issues in the WordPress code reference but I haven't found any information about a better place. I'll add another ticket requesting some prominent information about bugreports in the code reference.

[georgestephanis]

All the documentation in developer.wordpress.org is built using WordPress's internal phpdoc documentation, so that's actually a documentation error in the WordPress source.

You can see the actual spot here:

​https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php#L560

While investigating, I also noticed a bad reference here:

​https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-admin/plugins.php#L154

It should refer to wp-admin/includes/plugin.php -- not plugins.php -- no s.

If you'd like to put together a core patch for this and submit it to core trac, I'd be delighted to help walk you through the process. If not, let me know, and I'd be happy to just put it together on your behalf and tag you for bringing it up.

Good find!

[wedi]

Thanks for pointing me to the right direction!

I submitted a patch for both issues: ​https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30200