Title: admin_action_{$action}
Published: February 22, 2019
Last modified: February 24, 2026

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# do_action( “admin_action_{$action}” )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/admin_action_action/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/admin_action_action/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/admin_action_action/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Fires when an ‘action’ request variable is sent.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/admin_action_action/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The dynamic portion of the hook name, `$action`, refers to the action derived from
the `GET` or `POST` request.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/admin_action_action/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    do_action( "admin_action_{$action}" );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/admin.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/admin.php#L424)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/admin.php#L424-L424)

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/admin_action_action/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [2.6.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.6.0/) | Introduced. |

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