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Description
A safe way of removing a named option/value pair from the options database table.
Usage
<?php delete_option( $option ); ?>
Parameters
- $option
- (string) (required) Name of the option to be deleted. A list of valid default options can be found at the Option Reference.
- Default: None
Return Value
- (boolean)
- True, if option is successfully deleted. False on failure.
Example
Delete a single option
<?php delete_option( 'my_option' ); ?>
Change Log
Since: 1.2.0
Source File
delete_option() is located in wp-includes/option.php.
Related
- Options API
- get_option()
- get_site_option()
- add_option()
- add_site_option()
- update_option()
- update_site_option()
- delete_option()
- delete_site_option()
- wp_load_alloptions()
See also index of Function Reference and index of Template Tags.
