Title: publish_post help/tutorial?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# publish_post help/tutorial?

 *  [kylegetson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegetson/)
 * (@kylegetson)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish_post-helptutorial/)
 * I am trying to create a plugin that stores specific data and associates it with
   the postID in a table my plugin creates.
 * Currently my plugin adds some fields to the write a post page (under tags and
   categories). Once those are filled out, I use the publish_post hook. That seems
   to be the action I am looking for.. But whenever I try to use $wpdb->query to
   store what was in those fields, it seems to break. I get nothign but a white 
   page. If I take the query out and just update options, or something else it works,
   but whenever I try to query the database (or call a function that queries the
   database) it breaks. Does anyone know what my problem is? Or where I can get 
   some help on this action hook? Am I goign about this in the wrong way?
 * Any help would be much appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [kylegetson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegetson/)
 * (@kylegetson)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish_post-helptutorial/#post-843514)
 * Apparently you cant do it? I am able to use the add_post_meta function to save
   the information, but it’s not ideal. It seems as though I can do just about anything
   except use the $wpdb… it doesnt seem to be a scope issue. Anyone tried this before?
 * more specifically:
    I am creating an ‘event’ type plugin that allows you to make
   an event on a post. so when writing a post you can give it a date/time, however
   i want to store this in a table I have created with my plugin. I can access the
   table without any problem outside of this hook, but when using publish_post I
   cant. I am forced to use add_post_meta and update_post_meta

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish_post-helptutorial/#post-843514)
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