action for installing plugin in wordpress

Question

In wordpress there are actions that are fires when we activated and deactivated plugin (activated_plugin, deactivated_plugin). Is there any action that is fired when we install some new plugin?

Answer 1

There doesn't seem to be any action you can hook into while a plugin is being installed, but there are a few filters.

1. apply_filters( 'plugins_api_args', $args, $action );
2. apply_filters( 'plugins_api', false, $action, $args );
3. apply_filters( 'plugins_api_result', $res, $action, $args );

This is the function that handles the ajax plugin install request wp_ajax_install_plugin

The filters are located inside the plugins_api

Hope this gives you enough tools to run the code that you want