Title: Delete user using wordpress query
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Delete user using wordpress query

 *  [Vaib](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaibhavg/)
 * (@vaibhavg)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-user-using-wordpress-query/)
 * Hi i create a custom template and run a query to understand how to execute query
   in wordpress. I run this query
    <?php global $wpdb; echo $sql = $wpdb->prepare(“
   DELETE FROM wpdb->users WHERE ID = 5”, $id) ; $wpdb->query($sql); ?>
 * But it’s not working. how can we run wordpress query.

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 * [custom-query](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-query/)
 * [Delete User](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/delete-user/)

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 * Last reply from: [Vaib](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaibhavg/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-user-using-wordpress-query/)
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