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Is it fired after a post has been published?

Say I have a CPT and want to perform some automated actions based on the post that gets saved, can I do:

    add_action('publish_myt_cpt', 'myfunction');

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It is fired in wp-includes/post.php on line 3026 in the following function:

wp-includes/post.php: line 3014-3027

function wp_transition_post_status($new_status, $old_status, $post) {
    do_action('transition_post_status', $new_status, $old_status, $post);
    do_action("{$old_status}_to_{$new_status}", $post);
    do_action("{$new_status}_{$post->post_type}", $post->ID, $post);
}
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  • So is that after the post has been saved?
    – urok93
    Sep 4, 2012 at 13:32
  • 90% sure: Yes. You can check by dumping the contents of $post in the add_action. Or add a die('check') in the add_action and check the DB when the die hits
    – janw
    Sep 4, 2012 at 13:37
  • Right, the post is saved alright, but the post meta isn't yet saved at that point. What I need is to use one of the post meta fields, so I'm stuck.
    – urok93
    Sep 4, 2012 at 14:20
  • Well that wasn't your original question. Accept my answer and make a new question or update this one.
    – janw
    Sep 5, 2012 at 9:39
  • In WordPress 3.5.2 its still in 'wp-includes/post.php', only its moved to line 3270. Up-vote for you sir @janw! Sep 12, 2013 at 12:20

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