Question

I am trying to run the following function anytime a wordpress “Jobs” custom post is published. The code works (lines 2-7) when it is placed in my theme template, but it only runs when the post is viewed. I want the code to run when the post is published, and so I have tried adding the code in a function inside my functions.php, but nothing is happening when each custom post is published. Any suggestions?

function indeedgeo(){
    $indeedgeo = get_post_meta($post>ID, indeedgeo, true);
    $indeedgeos=explode(' ',$indeedgeo);
    $_jr_geo_latitude = $indeedgeos[0];
    $_jr_geo_longitude = $indeedgeos[1];
    update_post_meta($post->ID, _jr_geo_latitude, $_jr_geo_latitude);
    update_post_meta($post->ID, _jr_geo_longitude, $_jr_geo_longitude);
    }
add_action('publish_Jobs', 'indeedgeo');

Answer 1

You should hook into one of the three actions;

do_action('edit_post', $post_id, $post);
do_action('save_post', $post_id, $post);
do_action('wp_insert_post', $post_id, $post);

that are run when a post is either saved, or has its status updated. Something like the following should do the trick.

function se_10441543_save_post($post_id, $post){
    //determine post type
    if(get_post_type( $post_id ) == 'your_post_type'){
        //run your code
        $indeedgeo = get_post_meta($post_id, indeedgeo, true);
        $indeedgeos=explode(' ',$indeedgeo);
        $_jr_geo_latitude = $indeedgeos[0];
        $_jr_geo_longitude = $indeedgeos[1];
        update_post_meta($post_id, _jr_geo_latitude, $_jr_geo_latitude);
        update_post_meta($post_id, _jr_geo_longitude, $_jr_geo_longitude);
    }
}

add_action('save_post', 'se_10441543_save_post', 10, 2);

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference