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

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# do_action( ‘populate_options’ )

## In this article

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

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Fires before creating WordPress options and populating their default values.

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

    ```php
    do_action( 'populate_options' );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/schema.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/schema.php#L371)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/schema.php#L371-L371)

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

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

Create WordPress options and set the default values.

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

| Version | Description | 
| [2.6.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.6.0/) | Introduced. |

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