Title: load-{$plugin_page}
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: February 24, 2026

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# do_action( “load-{$plugin_page}” )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-plugin_page/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-plugin_page/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-plugin_page/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-plugin_page/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Fires before a particular screen is loaded.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-plugin_page/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The load-* hook fires in a number of contexts. This hook is for plugin screens where
the file to load is directly included, rather than the use of a function.

The dynamic portion of the hook name, `$plugin_page`, refers to the plugin basename.

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-plugin_page/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [plugin_basename()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/plugin_basename/)

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-plugin_page/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    do_action( "load-{$plugin_page}" ); // phpcs:ignore WordPress.NamingConventions.ValidHookName.UseUnderscores
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/admin.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/admin.php#L289)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/admin.php#L289-L289)

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/load-plugin_page/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [1.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/1.5.0/) | Introduced. |

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