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

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# delete_user_option( int $user_id, string $option_name, bool $is_global = false ): bool

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/delete_user_option/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/delete_user_option/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/delete_user_option/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/delete_user_option/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/delete_user_option/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/delete_user_option/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Deletes user option with global blog capability.

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

User options are just like user metadata except that they have support for global
blog options. If the ‘is_global’ parameter is false, which it is by default, it 
will prepend the WordPress table prefix to the option name.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/delete_user_option/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$user_id`intrequired

User ID

`$option_name`stringrequired

User option name.

`$is_global`booloptional

Whether option name is global or blog specific.
 Default false (blog specific).

Default:`false`

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/delete_user_option/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 bool True on success, false on failure.

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

    ```php
    function delete_user_option( $user_id, $option_name, $is_global = false ) {
    	global $wpdb;

    	if ( ! $is_global ) {
    		$option_name = $wpdb->get_blog_prefix() . $option_name;
    	}

    	return delete_user_meta( $user_id, $option_name );
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/user.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/user.php#L840)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/user.php#L840-L848)

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

| Uses | Description | 
| [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.

  |

| Used by | Description | 
| [wpmu_create_user()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wpmu_create_user/)`wp-includes/ms-functions.php` |

Creates a user.

  |

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

| Version | Description | 
| [3.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.0.0/) | Introduced. |

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