I have situation where I want to update blog blog options during creation of new blog. I want to update options like, home, default_comment_status, default_ping_status permalinks structure, etc ...

So I created function:

function setup_multisite_action($data){
  $blog_id = (int) $data->blog_id;
  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'home', '');
  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'default_comment_status', 'closed');
  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'default_ping_status', 'closed');
}
add_action( 'wp_insert_site', 'setup_multisite_action', 50, 1 );

But it won't work. I tried to use hook wpmu_new_blog and actually in this case this works!

function setup_multisite_action($blog_id){

  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'home', '');
  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'default_comment_status', 'closed');
  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'default_ping_status', 'closed');
}
add_action( 'wpmu_new_blog', 'setup_multisite_action', 50, 1 );

BUT! this hook is deprecated and it telling me to use wp_insert_site.

So what im doing wrong for hook wp_insert_site ?

I really have no clue how to solve my issue at this point. I spend some time to find solution but I was not able to, and it is important to work correctly. Because I have more stuff to update for new created blog so user don't have to do (actually he will be not able to do) :(

I have situation where I want to update blog blog options during creation of new blog. I want to update options like, home, default_comment_status, default_ping_status permalinks structure, etc ...

So I created function:

function setup_multisite_action($data){
  $blog_id = (int) $data->blog_id;
  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'home', 'https://test.local');
  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'default_comment_status', 'closed');
  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'default_ping_status', 'closed');
}
add_action( 'wp_insert_site', 'setup_multisite_action', 50, 1 );

But it won't work. I tried to use hook wpmu_new_blog and actually in this case this works!

function setup_multisite_action($blog_id){

  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'home', 'https://test.local');
  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'default_comment_status', 'closed');
  update_blog_option($blog_id, 'default_ping_status', 'closed');
}
add_action( 'wpmu_new_blog', 'setup_multisite_action', 50, 1 );

BUT! this hook is deprecated and it telling me to use wp_insert_site.

So what im doing wrong for hook wp_insert_site ?

I really have no clue how to solve my issue at this point. I spend some time to find solution but I was not able to, and it is important to work correctly. Because I have more stuff to update for new created blog so user don't have to do (actually he will be not able to do) :(

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• options

1 Answer 1

The wpmu_new_blog hook is indeed deprecated and shouldn't be used; however, it works because it runs after the new site has been initialized (see wp_initialize_site()) which means the database tables for that site has been created and filled with the default options.

So because you are updating the site's options like default_comment_status, then you should use the wp_initialize_site hook and not wp_insert_site:

add_action( 'wp_initialize_site', 'setup_multisite_action' ); // use this
//add_action( 'wp_insert_site', 'setup_multisite_action' );   // not this