Title: get_userdatabylogin
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# get_userdatabylogin( string $user_login ): bool|object

## In this article

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

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This function has been deprecated since 3.3.0. Use [get_user_by()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_user_by/)
instead.

Retrieve user info by login name.

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

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_userdatabylogin/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [get_user_by()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_user_by/)

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

 `$user_login`stringrequired

User’s username

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

 bool|object False on failure, User DB row object

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

    ```php
    function get_userdatabylogin($user_login) {
    	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.3.0', "get_user_by('login')" );
    	return get_user_by('login', $user_login);
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/pluggable-deprecated.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/pluggable-deprecated.php#L66)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/pluggable-deprecated.php#L66-L69)

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

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

Retrieves user info by a given field.

  | 
| [_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/functions/get_userdatabylogin/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.3.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.3.0/) | Deprecated. Use [get_user_by()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_user_by/)  | 
| [0.71](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/0.71/) | Introduced. |

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