Automatically Delete Users After 7 Days In WordPress

How to Automatically Delete Users After 7 Days In WordPress

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This is not the type of function you would require to use very often because it offers very specific feature to
automatically delete users after predefined time. I was looking to implement this feature in a past project where my client was offering temporary access to a section on his website to many users, but he also wanted to revoke their access after a week. Deleting users manually from database worked for a while but later he
often forgot to delete uses from database on timely basis which caused him lot of trouble and that’s when he asked to find a better solution to
automatically delete users after 7 days.

To do this I had to run a SQL query in WordPress to periodically check if there are users older than 7 days in WordPress users database table, and if there are, then delete those users at once. So I created this following function to delete used after 7 days of time.

Simply paste this WordPress snippet in your theme’s functions.php file to automatically delete users after 7 days of time. Of course you can change this time limit and make it as small as 1 day or whatever time limit you prefer.

// automatically delete users after 7 days in wordpress
function wcs_auto_delete_users() {
    global $wpdb;
    $query = $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->users WHERE datediff( now(), user_registered ) > 7" );
    if ( $oldUsers = $wpdb->get_results( $query, ARRAY_N ) ) {
        foreach ( $oldUsers as $user_id ) {
            wp_delete_user( $user_id[0] );
        }
    }
}
add_action( 'wcs_daily_clean_database', 'wcs_auto_delete_users' );

wp_schedule_event( time(), 'daily', 'wcs_daily_clean_database' );
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7 Replies on "Automatically Delete Users After 7 Days In WordPress"

  1. Diego

    Hi, I like a lot this blog, I have a question about this sistem, would be possible to delete users by role instead dete them by days?

    thank you, you do very nice job on this site. =)

    Reply
    1. Patrick

      Take a look:

      function auto_delete_users() {
	global $wpdb;
	$userlevel = 0; //0 = subscriber
	$deleteafter = 30; //deleter User after X days

	$query = $wpdb->prepare("SELECT $wpdb->users.ID FROM $wpdb->users LEFT JOIN $wpdb->usermeta ON $wpdb->users.ID = $wpdb->usermeta.user_id WHERE $wpdb->usermeta.meta_key = %s AND $wpdb->usermeta.meta_value = %d AND DATEDIFF(CURDATE(), $wpdb->users.user_registered) > %d", $wpdb->prefix.'user_level',$userlevel,$deleteafter);


	if($oldUsers = $wpdb->get_results($query, ARRAY_N)){
		foreach ($oldUsers as $user_id) {
			wp_delete_user($user_id[0]);
		}
	}
}

add_action('daily_clean_database', 'auto_delete_users');

wp_schedule_event(time(), 'daily', 'daily_clean_database');

      Best Regards
      Patrick

      Reply
      1. Patrick

        There is a little mistake in my script.
        replace wp_delete_user([0]); with wp_delete_user($user_id[0]);

        Thanks admins for editing!

      2. Vanessa Tovilo

        Thanks Patrick for this handy WordPress snippet.

        I have edited and corrected your snippet for changes you mentioned. Although I have not tested it personally but I am sure it must be working.

        But please people who use this, keep a backup of your database before trying. In case you want to revert back the changes. :)

        Thanks Patrick again. You are awesome.

      3. Federica

        Hello thanks for this tutorial. Is possibile to customize the code to change the user role for a specifi user?

        Also is possibile send email to use to comunicate change user?

        Thanks

  2. Sheyad VK

    Hi,

    Have possible to delete users by role wise ? Subscribers = 30 Days, Editors = 40 Days, Authors = 60 days.

    Regards

    Reply
  3. nandhini

    Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function wp_delete_user()

    Reply

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