Title: delete_all_user_settings
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# delete_all_user_settings()

## In this article

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

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Deletes the user settings of the current user.

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

    ```php
    function delete_all_user_settings() {
    	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
    	if ( ! $user_id ) {
    		return;
    	}

    	update_user_option( $user_id, 'user-settings', '', false );
    	setcookie( 'wp-settings-' . $user_id, ' ', time() - YEAR_IN_SECONDS, SITECOOKIEPATH );
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/option.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/option.php#L1910)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/option.php#L1910-L1918)

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

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

Updates user option with global blog capability.

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

Gets the current user’s ID.

  |

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

| Version | Description | 
| [2.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.7.0/) | Introduced. |

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