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1. glennwelker
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am writing a plugin that has some posted details from the write post page. Capturing this data is working but the function called from the add_action("save_post"... is being called multiple times.

   Is this normal behavior when a user saves a post? If so, what is the proper/recommended way to only act on the posted data once?

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yes, save_post happens on every save.

   Maybe you want to use the publish_post instead?

3. Technokinetics
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   The save_post action is called twice on every save. You could use a flag to only execute whatever code you're hooking into it once per save.

4. glennwelker
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks. I ended up looking for the post_type and ignoring revisions.

5. Steven
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi glennwelker,

   How did you solve this? Can you post your solution?

   I'm having the same issue with the plugin I'm writing which uses a extra database table. It appears that the save_post action gets activated twice upon saving the post so it saves 2 records to the database: one with the revision post id and one with the original post id...

   Cheers,

   Steven

6. wordpress4you
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Plugin API/Action Reference reads:

   Note that post ID may reference a post revision and not the last saved post. Use wp_is_post_revision to get the ID of the real post.

   Hope that will help.

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