Clear a transient when new post published

Let’s say you have a recent posts listing, and you’re storing the list of recent posts in a transient to reduce queries. This code will delete the transient when you publish a post so that it’s regenerated using more recent data next time it is requested.

<?php
function be_purge_recent_post_cache( $new, $old, $post ) {
if( 'publish' == $new )
delete_transient( 'recent_posts_query_results' );
}
add_action( ‘transition_post_status’, ‘be_purge_recent_post_cache’, 10, 3 );
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