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Coding question : wp_delete_user()

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    Michael on November 5, 2025 at 2:18 am #55860

    Hi Brajesh,

    Hope you can help. I have written a function to delete “abandoned” accounts from my site, say after x number of days of inactivity.

    Simply loops through the entire member list, and uses the wp_delete_user() function to safely & cleanly remove the account if appropriate.

    Question : is the wp_delete_user() function very slow? Because it seems so, for example if I want it to delete 300 accounts one after the other, it can take 30 seconds to complete. Is this slow, or is it expected?

    Thanks!

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    Brajesh Singh on November 5, 2025 at 3:41 am #55861

    Hi Michael,
    Welcome back.

    the function is not slow in itself. It runs some hooks(delete_user/deleted_user) which are used by many plugins to cleanup their own content. If you have plugins with large amount of data needing cleanup for the user being deleted, It will cause slowness.

    I will suggest running via cron and chunking to ensure it works without any issue.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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