Marks a deprecated action or filter hook as deprecated and throws a notice.

Use the ‘deprecated_hook_run’ action to get the backtrace describing where the deprecated hook was called.

Default behavior is to trigger a user error if WP_DEBUG is true.

This function is called by the do_action_deprecated() and apply_filters_deprecated() functions, and so generally does not need to be called directly.

$hook string Required

The hook that was used.

$version string Required

The version of WordPress that deprecated the hook.

$replacement string Optional

The hook that should have been used.

Default: ''

$message string Optional

A message regarding the change.

Default: ''

File: wp-includes/functions.php. View all references

function _deprecated_hook( $hook, $version, $replacement = '', $message = '' ) {
	/**
	 * Fires when a deprecated hook is called.
	 *
	 * @since 4.6.0
	 *
	 * @param string $hook        The hook that was called.
	 * @param string $replacement The hook that should be used as a replacement.
	 * @param string $version     The version of WordPress that deprecated the argument used.
	 * @param string $message     A message regarding the change.
	 */
	do_action( 'deprecated_hook_run', $hook, $replacement, $version, $message );

	/**
	 * Filters whether to trigger deprecated hook errors.
	 *
	 * @since 4.6.0
	 *
	 * @param bool $trigger Whether to trigger deprecated hook errors. Requires
	 *                      `WP_DEBUG` to be defined true.
	 */
	if ( WP_DEBUG && apply_filters( 'deprecated_hook_trigger_error', true ) ) {
		$message = empty( $message ) ? '' : ' ' . $message;

		if ( $replacement ) {
			trigger_error(
				sprintf(
					/* translators: 1: WordPress hook name, 2: Version number, 3: Alternative hook name. */
					__( 'Hook %1$s is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version %2$s! Use %3$s instead.' ),
					$hook,
					$version,
					$replacement
				) . $message,
				E_USER_DEPRECATED
			);
		} else {
			trigger_error(
				sprintf(
					/* translators: 1: WordPress hook name, 2: Version number. */
					__( 'Hook %1$s is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version %2$s with no alternative available.' ),
					$hook,
					$version
				) . $message,
				E_USER_DEPRECATED
			);
		}
	}
}