How to do an event when any user updates their profile?

Question

I want to call a function, whenever any user update their profile. How to do that?

t f · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-11 17:21:37Z

up vote 4 down vote accepted

It seems as if the hook personal_options_update might be what you're looking for.

add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'my_custom_func' );
function my_custom_func( $user_id /* if you need that */ ) {
    ...
}

answered Mar 11 at 17:21

t f
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	+1 since you basically said what I said and included example code. :) – m0r7if3r Mar 11 at 17:26
	Thanks a lot. Can I also use this hook in plugin as well? – тнє Sufi Mar 11 at 18:02
	Well, of course can you include this functionality into a plugin, as well as into a theme's `functions.php`. If I could be of help, would you mind accepting this answer so that someone having the same/a similar problem can see its solution? – t f Mar 11 at 18:58
	Thanks a lot. It saved me a lot of time :) – тнє Sufi Mar 11 at 19:03

m0r7if3r · Answer 2 · 2013-03-11 17:26:14Z

You can do this using either the personal_options_update or edit_user_profile_update hook depending on what exactly you want to do. If those aren't firing when you need, you can poke around in http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.1/wp-admin/user-edit.php to find a different hook to use.

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