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I am reading the source of a plugin (gallery to slideshow plugin) to make it behave like i want and it is using an action 

add_action( 'the_posts', array( &$this, 'have_gallery' ), 10, 1 );

I want to know what those extra parameters (10,1) mean but i cant find the documentation of this action. Please help

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    It's helpful to search Google with the function name: add_action WordPress. Most functions are pretty well documented in the Codex.
    – Brian Fegter
    Feb 27, 2012 at 15:03

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those parameters aren't unique to the_posts, they're parameters for the add_action() function

add_action( $tag, $function_to_add, $priority, $accepted_args );

the 10 is just the default priority and 1 is the default number of accepted arguments. since they're both default, you don't really need either.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_action

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  • Ok nice, But what does this hook do?
    – Dr Deo
    Feb 27, 2012 at 15:08
  • did you check the codex? add_action adds a function to a wordpress action. so your plugin is telling wordpress to run its 'have_gallery' function when wordpress runs the the_posts() action
    – helgatheviking
    Feb 27, 2012 at 16:52
  • By the way, if you check the source for add_action, you'll see it uses ksort on the plugin event array per each event. This means that negative values are possible and will sort higher than zero. PHP5 will let you create a key with the max negative value of -1410065407. So, if you hook the init event with that priority, it will likely be the first event ever run. Just remember that if you don't need that early of a priority, go with something in the 10+ range. In my case, I needed it to build a plugin to block bad spiders.
    – Volomike
    May 2, 2012 at 6:59
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This is rather add_action() related.

add_action( 
   'the_posts', //$tag
   array( &$this, 'have_gallery' ), //$function_to_add
   10, //$priority - run priority, when to execute given action 
   1 //$accepted_args - number of accepted arguments, one in this case
);

10 means default run priority and 1 stands for one argument that this function takes.

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  • Thanks for the Quick response. But i wonder how on earth the plugin writer came across this hook and used it without documentation.
    – Dr Deo
    Feb 27, 2012 at 15:13

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