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

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# do_action( ‘wpmu_delete_user’, int $id, WP_User $user )

## In this article

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

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Fires before a user is deleted from the network.

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

 `$id`int

ID of the user about to be deleted from the network.

`$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 about to be deleted from the network.

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

    ```php
    do_action( 'wpmu_delete_user', $id, $user );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/ms.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/ms.php#L174)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/ms.php#L174-L174)

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

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

Deletes a user and all of their posts from the network.

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

| Version | Description | 
| [MU (3.0.0)](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/mu.3.0.0/) | MU (3.0.0) | 
| [5.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/5.5.0/) | Introduced. |

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