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

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# do_action_deprecated( ‘delete_blog’, int $site_id, bool $drop )

## In this article

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

[ Back to top](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_blog/?output_format=md#wp--skip-link--target)

This hook has been deprecated since 5.1.0.

Fires before a site is deleted.

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

 `$site_id`int

The site ID.

`$drop`bool

True if site’s table should be dropped. Default false.

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

    ```php
    do_action_deprecated( 'delete_blog', array( $old_site->id, true ), '5.1.0' );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/ms-site.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/ms-site.php#L252)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/ms-site.php#L252-L252)

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

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

Deletes a site from the database.

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

Deletes a site.

  |

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

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

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