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

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# update_user_option( int $user_id, string $option_name, mixed $newvalue, bool $is_global = false ): int|bool

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_user_option/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_user_option/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_user_option/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_user_option/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_user_option/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_user_option/?output_format=md#changelog)
 * [User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_user_option/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)

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Updates user option with global blog capability.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_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.

Deletes the user option if $newvalue is empty.

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

 `$user_id`intrequired

User ID.

`$option_name`stringrequired

User option name.

`$newvalue`mixedrequired

User option value.

`$is_global`booloptional

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

Default:`false`

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

 int|bool User meta ID if the option didn’t exist, true on successful update, false
on failure.

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

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

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

    	return update_user_meta( $user_id, $option_name, $newvalue );
    }
    ```

[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#L813)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/user.php#L813-L821)

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

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

Updates user meta field based on user ID.

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

Displays the Quick Draft widget.

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

Saves and restores user interface settings stored in a cookie.

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

Private. Sets all user interface settings.

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

Deletes the user settings of the current user.

  |

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

| Version | Description | 
| [2.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.0.0/) | Introduced. |

## 󠀁[User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_user_option/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)󠁿

 1.   [Skip to note 2 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_user_option/?output_format=md#comment-content-1285)
 2.    [Codex](https://profiles.wordpress.org/codex/)  [  10 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/update_user_option/#comment-1285)
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 4.  **Basic Example**
 5.  Hide the admin bar for a user on the front end of the site:
 6.      ```php
         update_user_option( $user_id, 'show_admin_bar_front', false );
         ```
     
 7.  When multisite is installed, the $global parameter can be used to set the user
     option for the whole network, instead of just the current site:
 8.      ```php
         update_user_option( $user_id, 'show_admin_bar_front', false, true );
         ```
     
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