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revoke_super_admin( int $user_id ): bool

Since
3.0.0
Source
wp-includes/capabilities.php:1237
Revokes Super Admin privileges.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 3.0.0
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$user_idint
ID of the user Super Admin privileges to be revoked from.

Return value

bool
True on success, false on failure. This can fail when the user's email is the network admin email or when the $super_admins global is defined.

Performance profile

How much work a call to revoke_super_admin() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.

Cost class
Heavy

Reaches the database via get_user_by().

Scaling
Constant

No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.

Instructions
4–49

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 51.

Plugin surface
2 hooks

Third-party callbacks on 'revoke_super_admin', 'revoked_super_admin' run inside this call, and their cost is not bounded by anything here.

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

What it touches

  • hookthird-party callbacksdo_action()called directly
  • optionnetwork optionget_site_option()called directly
  • querycontent queryget_user_by()one call below revoke_super_admin()

Further down the call graph this can also reach cache, serialize and transient. Those are the worst case, several calls deep and usually down an error path, not what a normal call pays.

What one call costs · 6 distinct outcomes

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost revoke_super_admin() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
isset($value)4none
!isset($value) && !is_multisite()7is_multisite()
!isset($value) && is_multisite()21is_multisite(), do_action(), get_site_option(), get_userdata()
!isset($value) && is_multisite()31is_multisite(), do_action(), get_site_option(), get_userdata(), get_site_option(), strcasecmp()
!isset($value) && is_multisite() && $key === false40is_multisite(), do_action(), get_site_option(), get_userdata(), get_site_option(), strcasecmp(), array_search()
!isset($value) && is_multisite() && $key !== false49is_multisite(), do_action(), get_site_option(), get_userdata(), get_site_option(), strcasecmp(), array_search(), update_site_option(), do_action()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev514–495
8.5514–495
8.4514–495
8.3514–495
8.2514–495
8.1514–4951 fewer instruction than PHP 7.4
7.4525–505

An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.

Hooks and filters fired · 2

2 hooks fire while revoke_super_admin() runs, in this order:

  1. do_action( revoke_super_admin )actionline 1250 (+13 into the body)

    Fires before the user's Super Admin privileges are revoked.

  2. do_action( revoked_super_admin )actionline 1269 (+32 into the body)

    Fires after the user's Super Admin privileges are revoked.

Uses · 5

Source code

function revoke_super_admin( $user_id ) {	// If global super_admins override is defined, there is nothing to do here.	if ( isset( $GLOBALS['super_admins'] ) || ! is_multisite() ) {		return false;	} 	/**	 * Fires before the user's Super Admin privileges are revoked.	 *	 * @since 3.0.0	 *	 * @param int $user_id ID of the user Super Admin privileges are being revoked from.	 */	do_action( 'revoke_super_admin', $user_id ); 	// Directly fetch site_admins instead of using get_super_admins().	$super_admins = get_site_option( 'site_admins', array( 'admin' ) ); 	$user = get_userdata( $user_id );	if ( $user && 0 !== strcasecmp( $user->user_email, get_site_option( 'admin_email' ) ) ) {		$key = array_search( $user->user_login, $super_admins, true );		if ( false !== $key ) {			unset( $super_admins[ $key ] );			update_site_option( 'site_admins', $super_admins ); 			/**			 * Fires after the user's Super Admin privileges are revoked.			 *			 * @since 3.0.0			 *			 * @param int $user_id ID of the user Super Admin privileges were revoked from.			 */			do_action( 'revoked_super_admin', $user_id );			return true;		}	}	return false;}

Changelog

Introduced in 3.0.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.7.7
  2. 6.8.8
  3. 6.9.7
  4. 7.0.4
  5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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