Title: Plugin Execution order
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Plugin Execution order

 *  [gr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gr/)
 * (@gr)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-execution-order/)
 * Maybe I’m off here, but I would like to know how the plugins get executed, and
   in what order.
 * Basically, I am running wp-stattraq along with spam karma 2. I would like to 
   get spam karma 2 to kill spam posts before they get logged by stattraq. One way
   I thought of doing this was to get execution to end at spam karma before stattraq
   logs it. Or to have stattraq check some spam karma exit value, or other variable
   set by spam karma before it logs.
 * Any hints?

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 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-execution-order/#post-223448)
 * I think it’s the order the plugins were activated.
 * HOWEVER, that’s just the order they are INITIALIZED. How and when they actually
   execute is dependent on the plugin.
 * Usually the anti-spam stuff doesn’t kick in until the actuall processing of the
   comment (that’s when CG-AntiSpam does its work at least). However, something 
   like CG-Referrer purposefully tracks and punts when plugins finish loading, in
   order to abort as early as possible. In theory, Referrer (and other stats plugins)
   could do checks in the initialization/plugins-loaded point, but then not log 
   the visit until maybe wp_foot or other late point. However, just because a spam
   post got killed doesn’t necessarily mean wp_foot (or other ‘late’ action points)
   doesn’t get hit as well.
 * Probably means some custom code may be required. 😉
 * -d
 *  [richschmidt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richschmidt/)
 * (@richschmidt)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-execution-order/#post-223890)
 * I’m interested in learning in what order plugins are executed also. I’m running
   two that interfere with each other:
 * 1. autohyperlink – automagically transforms [http://www.whatever.com](http://www.whatever.com)
   into a link and [me@whatever.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-execution-order/me@whatever.com?output_format=md)
   into a mailto link. (Just like this forum does, evidently.)
 * 2. email immunizer – turns email addresses into numeric codes to try to protect
   from harvesters.
 * The problem is that the immunizer gets to the email addresses first, which means
   autohyperlink doesn’t recognize it as an email address & doesn’t work its magic.
   If I could make them execute in the opposite order, it’d be perfect.
 * Any ideas?
 * It looks like autohyperlink gets its work done with add_filter(‘the_content’,’
   autohyperlink_filter’); and add_action(‘publish_post’,’autohyperlink_filter’);.
   Email immunizer does a set of 9 add_filter(); commands, one of which is add_filter(‘
   the_content’, ’email_immunizer’, 9);. Evidently that’s where the conflict happens…
 *  [richschmidt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richschmidt/)
 * (@richschmidt)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-execution-order/#post-223891)
 * OK, I figured that one out. 🙂 The “9” in the email immunizer add_filter() tipped
   me off. It’s a priority argument. I changed the 9’s to 30’s, and now the autohyperlink
   gets done first. (There’s info on this in the Codex: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Filters](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Filters).
   It just took me a while to find it.)
 * I went with 30 because I have no idea how many add_filter() commands there are
   on my system at the moment. I didn’t want to adjust the autohyperlink priority&
   jam up something else…
 * What can I say? I’m new at this! 🙂

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