Title: Call function on multiple actions
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Call function on multiple actions

 *  Resolved [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/call-function-on-multiple-actions/)
 * I’m writing some function that needs to be executed every time something changes
   in the list of posts. So, whenever:
    – a new post is published – an existing 
   post is edited – an existing post is deleted
 * I was thinking to do it like this:
 *     ```
       add_action('publish_post', myfunction());
       add_action('post_updated', myfunction());
       add_action('deleted_post', myfunction());
       ```
   
 * I think the second one is not even necessary (it’s executed with `publish_post`
   anyways) but is there a better way to do this, instead of calling the function
   in various situations?
 * Is it possible to do something like this (not literally, but structure-wise)?
 *     ```
       add_action( ('publish_post' OR 'post_updated' OR 'deleted_post') , myfunction() );
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/call-function-on-multiple-actions/#post-4879784)
 * I guess in this case, this would do the trick:
 *     ```
       add_action('save_post', myfunction());
       ```
   
 * However, I’m still interested in how to fire a function with multiple actions(
   e.g. when a post is updated OR when a user is updated).
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/call-function-on-multiple-actions/#post-4879795)
 * You’ve got it right, you need to have a call to `add_action()` for each trigger
   that you need. There’s no way around that at this point. If you get to the point
   where you have a big list of actions to add you can always set them up in an 
   array and use a `foreach()` loop to call them all in turn.
 * Only one thing that I saw in your code that I’m thinking may not be in your final
   code?
 * `add_action('save_post', myfunction());`
 * That’s not the right way to do it. That would actually call the function at that
   point, and not when the action hook is called. It should be:
 * `add_action('save_post', 'myfunction');`
 *  Thread Starter [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/call-function-on-multiple-actions/#post-4879826)
 * You’re right, I didn’t mean to use myfunction() in there. Not sure why I did,
   just got confused I guess.
 * Thanks for confirming — I figured it would be like that and I guess sometimes
   it’s just about finding the right (or most efficient) action to pick.

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