Sometimes, you want to make sure that a specific esssential plugin is never deleted on your WordPress website or at least you want to be notified when ever this happens.
Imagine you have a tax plugin that calculates the tax in your WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads shop system. If this plugin is disabled for a reason, all your purchase prices will be miscalculated and it can take a while until you recognize that.
There is no 100% protection to prevent a plugin from being disabled on your WordPress website, but when it happens, you can copy the following code into a mu-plugin like plugin-logger.php and add it to the folder wp-content/mu-plugins
Once any of the installed plugins is either disabled or deleted by the WordPress hooks deleted_plugin or deactivated_plugin you will get an email notification. It will also log the report in the file wp-content//7263767234-deleted-plugins.log.
I recommend to adjust the path and file name for security purposes.
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