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  • How to check a specific plugin is activated or not ?

    Last updated on April 8th, 2026 by Adnan

    How to check a specific plugin is activated or not ?

    While working on the EDD (Easy Digital Downloads) add-on of Analytify, I was looking for a way to check if the Easy Digital Downloads plugin is already activated or not. So, a message should appear to our users that “They should activate Easy Digital Downloads to make the Analytify for EDD work properly. “ Almost every plugin has a class name, we can use the PHP function ‘class_exists‘ to know if it exists or not. Following is the code which can be used to check a plugin is activate or not. add_action( ‘admin_notices’, array( &$this, ‘analytify_edd_plugin_notices’ )); public function analytify_edd_plugin_notices()…

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