Title: delete_user
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# do_action( ‘delete_user’, int $id, int|null $reassign, WP_User $user )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [More Information](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/?output_format=md#more-information)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/?output_format=md#changelog)
 * [User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)

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Fires immediately before a user is deleted from the site.

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

Note that on a Multisite installation the user only gets removed from the site and
does not get deleted from the database.

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

 `$id`int

ID of the user to delete.

`$reassign`int|null

ID of the user to reassign posts and links to.
 Default null, for no reassignment.

`$user`[WP_User](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_user/)

[WP_User](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_user/) object of 
the user to delete.

## 󠀁[More Information](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/?output_format=md#more-information)󠁿

The delete_user action/hook can be used to perform additional actions when a user
is deleted. For example, you can delete rows from custom tables created by a plugin.

This hook runs before a user is deleted. The hook deleted_user (notice the “ed”)
runs after a user is deleted. Choose the appropriate hook for your needs. If you
need access to user meta or fields from the user table, use delete_user.

Users deleted from Network Site installs may not trigger this hook. Be sure to use
the wpmu_delete_user hook for those cases. The deleted_user hook is called in either
case.

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

    ```php
    do_action( 'delete_user', $id, $reassign, $user );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/user.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/user.php#L380)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/user.php#L380-L380)

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

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

Delete user and optionally reassign posts and links to another user.

  |

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

| Version | Description | 
| [5.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/5.5.0/) | Added the `$user` parameter. | 
| [2.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.0.0/) | Introduced. |

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

 1.   [Skip to note 3 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/?output_format=md#comment-content-4281)
 2.    [Steven Lin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stevenlinx/)  [  6 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/#comment-4281)
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 4.  Example migrated from Codex:
 5.  In this example we send a friendly message to a user before their account is deleted
     a few milliseconds later.
 6.      ```php
         function my_delete_user( $user_id ) {
         	global $wpdb;
     
         	$user_obj = get_userdata( $user_id );
         	$email = $user_obj->user_email;
     
         	$headers = 'From: ' . get_bloginfo( "name" ) . ' <' . get_bloginfo( "admin_email" ) . '>' . "\r\n";
         	wp_mail( $email, 'You are being deleted, brah', 'Your account at ' . get_bloginfo("name") . ' is being deleted right now.', $headers );
         }
         add_action( 'delete_user', 'my_delete_user' );
         ```
     
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 8.   [Skip to note 4 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/?output_format=md#comment-content-3755)
 9.    [Yong](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yongkiagustinus/)  [  6 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_user/#comment-3755)
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 11. Example usage
      Send email notification when a user is deleted
 12.     ```php
         add_action( 'delete_user', 'wpdocs_delete_user' );
         function wpdocs_delete_user( $user_id ) {
         	$user_data = get_userdata( $user_id );
     
         	$headers = 'From: ' . get_bloginfo( 'name' ) . ' ' . "\r\n";
     
         	wp_mail( $user_data->user_email, 'We are deleting your account', 'Your account at ' . get_bloginfo( 'name' ) . ' will be deleted.', $headers );
         }
         ```
     
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