cannot “remove_action”

Hello formless,

Thank you for using the plugin.

First off, what do you want to do?

Hi @wpwhitesecurity

Thank you for your reply!
and sorry for my bad explanation.

I am running a cronjob (wp-cron) which does bluk delete using ‘wp_delete_post’.
It deletes 100 and more posts at once,
then all the ‘delete_post_meta’ logs are recorded by WSAL.
But each post have nearly 50 post metas,
so I wanna stop WSAL recording logs for deleting postmeta while cronjob is working.

I’ve tried these below.
but they did not work.

Pattern A -> not work

add_action('init', 'stop_WSAL_for_cronjob', 1000);
function stop_WSAL_for_cronjob(){
	if ( !defined( 'DOING_CRON' ) ){ return; }
	remove_action('add_post_meta',  array( WSAL_Sensors_MetaData::HookEvents(), 'EventPostMetaCreated' ), 10, 3);
	remove_action('update_post_meta', array( WSAL_Sensors_MetaData::HookEvents(), 'EventPostMetaUpdating' ), 10, 3);
	remove_action('updated_post_meta', array( WSAL_Sensors_MetaData::HookEvents(), 'EventPostMetaUpdated'), 10, 4);
	remove_action('deleted_post_meta', array( WSAL_Sensors_MetaData::HookEvents(),  'EventPostMetaDeleted'), 10, 4);
}

Pattern B -> not work

add_action('init', 'stop_WSAL_for_cronjob', 1000);
function stop_WSAL_for_cronjob(){
	if ( !defined( 'DOING_CRON' ) ){ return; }
	remove_action('add_post_meta',  array( WpSecurityAuditLog::GetInstance()->sensors->HookEvents(), 'EventPostMetaCreated' ), 10, 3);
	remove_action('update_post_meta', array( WpSecurityAuditLog::GetInstance()->sensors->HookEvents(), 'EventPostMetaUpdating' ), 10, 3);
	remove_action('updated_post_meta', array( WpSecurityAuditLog::GetInstance()->sensors->HookEvents(), 'EventPostMetaUpdated'), 10, 4);
	remove_action('deleted_post_meta', array( WpSecurityAuditLog::GetInstance()->sensors->HookEvents(),  'EventPostMetaDeleted'), 10, 4);
}

I want to know the right way to remove_action().

Hi Formless,

You should use this type of code:

add_action('init', 'stop_WSAL_action');

function stop_WSAL_action()
{
    if (class_exists('WpSecurityAuditLog')) {
        $sensors = WpSecurityAuditLog::GetInstance()->sensors->GetSensors();
        foreach ($sensors as $sensor) {
            if (get_class($sensor) == "WSAL_Sensors_MetaData") {
                remove_action('deleted_post_meta', array($sensor, 'EventPostMetaDeleted'), 10);
            }
        }
    }
}

Try it and let me know if you have any queries.

Hi @wpwhitesecurity

Thank you for the code.
It worked perfect!

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