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

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# update_blog_status( int $blog_id, string $pref, string $value, mixed $deprecated = null ): string|false

## In this article

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

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Updates a blog details field.

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

 `$blog_id`intrequired

Blog ID.

`$pref`stringrequired

Field name.

`$value`stringrequired

Field value.

`$deprecated`mixedoptional

Not used.

Default:`null`

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

 string|false $value

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

    ```php
    function update_blog_status( $blog_id, $pref, $value, $deprecated = null ) {
    	global $wpdb;

    	if ( null !== $deprecated ) {
    		_deprecated_argument( __FUNCTION__, '3.1.0' );
    	}

    	$allowed_field_names = array( 'site_id', 'domain', 'path', 'registered', 'last_updated', 'public', 'archived', 'mature', 'spam', 'deleted', 'lang_id' );

    	if ( ! in_array( $pref, $allowed_field_names, true ) ) {
    		return $value;
    	}

    	$result = wp_update_site(
    		$blog_id,
    		array(
    			$pref => $value,
    		)
    	);

    	if ( is_wp_error( $result ) ) {
    		return false;
    	}

    	return $value;
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/ms-blogs.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/ms-blogs.php#L761)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/ms-blogs.php#L761-L786)

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

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

Updates a site in the database.

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

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

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

Checks whether the given variable is a WordPress Error.

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

Deletes a site.

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

Updates this blog’s ‘public’ setting in the global blogs table.

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

Updates the ‘archived’ status of a particular blog.

  |

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

| Version | Description | 
| [MU (3.0.0)](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/mu.3.0.0/) | MU (3.0.0) | 
| [5.1.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/5.1.0/) | Introduced. |

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