[thusman]

Hello, I’m new to the world of wordpress plugin development.

I’m writing an import plugin and I noticed it gets loaded even for anyonymous frontend users. I want it only to load/run when an admin is viewing the plugin page in the backend. I found myself a solution with the admin hook [current_screen](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/current_screen) and I’m interested to hear from more experienced developers if this is reasonable or if there are other build-in methods for such cases (e.g. prevent auto loading of the plugin on each request).

add_action(‘current_screen’, ‘initPlugin’);
function initPlugin($wpScreen) {
//only run on my-import-plugin page
if($wpScreen->base != ‘settings_page_my-import-plugin’) return;

//execute plugin …
echo ‘Hello, you are viewing the plugin screen’;
}

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[CharlesCSchnieder]

Make a settings page for the plugin and call the function there, no?

[r1ckd33zy]

This would work for your purposes, also there is the `get_current_screen()` function

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