Title: how do you create a global variable?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# how do you create a global variable?

 *  Resolved [mamikel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mamikel/)
 * (@mamikel)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-you-create-a-global-variable/)
 * Hi,
    I’m pretty new to wordpress, but hopefully this is a straightforward one.
 * I want to take the entire query string passed to my plugin, and store it for 
   use later (sitewide).
 * Can anyone point me in the right direction. I’ve tried using define(‘myvariablename’,’
   some value’);
    but I’m probably not understanding things as this is not working.
 * many thanks
 * Matt

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