Function Reference/doing action

Description

Checks to see if an action is currently being executed.

 <?php doing_action($action); ?>

$action: (string) (optional) The name of the action to check for, if omitted will check for any action being performed

To check whether the 'save_post' action is being executed you could write something similar to this:

 if(doing_action('save_post')){
   //Do Something Here
 }

To check if any action is being executed you could write something like this:

 if(doing_action()){
   //Do Something Here
 }

doing_action() is located in wp-includes/plugin.php

Actions: add_action(), do_action(), has_action(), did_action(), remove_action()

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