Title: WP_Roles::reinit
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# WP_Roles::reinit()

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_roles/reinit/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_roles/reinit/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_roles/reinit/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_roles/reinit/?output_format=md#changelog)

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This method has been deprecated since 4.7.0. Use WP_Roles::for_site() instead.

Reinitializes the object.

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

Recreates the role objects. This is typically called only by [switch_to_blog()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/switch_to_blog/)
after switching [wpdb](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wpdb/) 
to a new site ID.

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

    ```php
    public function reinit() {
    	_deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '4.7.0', 'WP_Roles::for_site()' );

    	$this->for_site();
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-roles.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-roles.php#L135)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-roles.php#L135-L139)

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

| Uses | Description | 
| [WP_Roles::for_site()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_roles/for_site/)`wp-includes/class-wp-roles.php` |

Sets the site to operate on. Defaults to the current site.

  | 
| [_deprecated_function()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_deprecated_function/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.

  |

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

| Version | Description | 
| [4.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.7.0/) | Deprecated. Use [WP_Roles::for_site()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_roles/for_site/) | 
| [3.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.5.0/) | Introduced. |

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