Title: {$action}
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: December 6, 2018

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# do_action_deprecated( “{$action}” )

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If the ‘postcustom’ meta box is enabled, then we need to perform some extra initialization
on it.

## Source

    ```php
    switch ( $status ) {
    	case 'pending':
    		$message = 8;
    		break;
    	case 'future':
    		$message = 9;
    		break;
    ```

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