Title: Delete order metadata using actions
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Delete order metadata using actions

 *  [ahnabil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahnabil/)
 * (@ahnabil)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-order-metadata-using-actions/)
 * Hello,
 * i want to delete order metadata after the order being saved
 * i tried
 * add_action( ‘delete_post_metadata’, ‘myfn_delete_post_meta’, 10, 4 );
    function
   myfn_delete_post_meta($meta_key) { if ( $meta_key == ‘Total in USD’) { delete_post_metadata(
   $post_id, $meta_value ); } }
 * need help please
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * (@mikejolley)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-order-metadata-using-actions/#post-7571750)
 * Look into the save_post hook instead.
 *  Thread Starter [ahnabil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahnabil/)
 * (@ahnabil)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-order-metadata-using-actions/#post-7571755)
 * provide example please please 🙂
 *  Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * (@mikejolley)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-order-metadata-using-actions/#post-7571903)
 * I cannot provide customisations for you – read [https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/save_post](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/save_post)
 * If you need a developer to help, use jobs.wordpress.net

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 * [metadata](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/metadata/)
 * [meta_key](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/meta_key/)
 * [meta_value)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/meta_value/)

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 * Last reply from: [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-order-metadata-using-actions/#post-7571903)
 * Status: not resolved