{"id":2524,"date":"2019-12-30T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:14:01","slug":"delete-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wordpress\/users\/delete-user","title":{"rendered":"Delete User"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delete A User<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>  if ($user_id == wp_get_current_user())\n  {\n    \/\/Log the user out\n    wp_logout();\n\n    \/\/Delete their account\n    if (!current_user_can('administrator'))   \/\/Don't accidentally delete our admin account!\n    {\n      require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-admin\/includes\/user.php');    \/\/THis may be required to avoid \"Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function wp_delete_user()\"\n      wp_delete_user($user_id);\n    }\n\n    wp_redirect( home_url( '\/' ) );\n    die;\n  }<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">User Deleted Hook<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\/\/***************************************\n\/\/***************************************\n\/\/********** USER DELETED HOOK **********\n\/\/***************************************\n\/\/***************************************\nadd_action( 'delete_user', 'my_delete_user' );\nfunction my_delete_user($user_id)\n{\n  \n\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Running before other delete_user hooks<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>add_action( 'delete_user', 'my_delete_user', 1 );     \/\/Priority 1, we need to run before ##### deletes user from its tables (default priority is 10)<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delete A User User Deleted Hook Running before other delete_user hooks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}