Title: edit_attachment
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# do_action( ‘edit_attachment’, int $post_id )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_attachment/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_attachment/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_attachment/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_attachment/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Fires once an existing attachment has been updated.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_attachment/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$post_id`int

Attachment ID.

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

    ```php
    do_action( 'edit_attachment', $post_id );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/post.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-includes/post.php#L5186)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-includes/post.php#L5186-L5186)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/edit_attachment/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [wp_insert_post()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_insert_post/)`wp-includes/post.php` |

Inserts or updates a post in the database.

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

| Version | Description | 
| [2.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.0.0/) | Introduced. |

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