Title: WP_User::remove_all_caps
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: February 24, 2026

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# WP_User::remove_all_caps()

## In this article

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

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Removes all of the capabilities of the user.

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

    ```php
    public function remove_all_caps() {
    	global $wpdb;
    	$this->caps = array();
    	delete_user_meta( $this->ID, $this->cap_key );
    	delete_user_meta( $this->ID, $wpdb->get_blog_prefix() . 'user_level' );
    	$this->get_role_caps();
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-user.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-user.php#L749)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-user.php#L749-L755)

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

| Uses | Description | 
| [WP_User::get_role_caps()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_user/get_role_caps/)`wp-includes/class-wp-user.php` |

Retrieves all of the capabilities of the user’s roles, and merges them with individual user capabilities.

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

Removes metadata matching criteria from a user.

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| [wpdb::get_blog_prefix()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wpdb/get_blog_prefix/)`wp-includes/class-wpdb.php` |

Gets blog prefix.

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

| Version | Description | 
| [2.1.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.1.0/) | Introduced. |

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