Title: plugin execution order
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# plugin execution order

 *  [ronod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronod/)
 * (@ronod)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-execution-order-1/)
 * I’m writing a plugin that reads a shortcode from a post. The shortcode callback
   then places that data in a mysql table, then deletes the post.
    My question is:
   what hook to use to insure that all the above has happened before the next step
   in the code that utilizes the table data? Thanks in advance. Ron

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-execution-order-1/#post-2756014)
 * The action ‘transition_post_status’ fires when the post is published and deleted,
   among other things. Your code would need to check that it fired for the reason
   you are interested in.
 *  Thread Starter [ronod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronod/)
 * (@ronod)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-execution-order-1/#post-2756032)
 * thanks, I’ll try it!

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