wp-includes/user.php:2094Determines whether the given email exists.
$emailstringint|falseOne hook fires while email_exists() runs, in this order:
Filters whether the given email exists.
function email_exists( $email ) { $user = get_user_by( 'email', $email ); if ( $user ) { $user_id = $user->ID; } else { $user_id = false; } /** * Filters whether the given email exists. * * @since 5.6.0 * * @param int|false $user_id The user ID associated with the email, * or false if the email does not exist. * @param string $email The email to check for existence. */ return apply_filters( 'email_exists', $user_id, $email );}Introduced in 2.1.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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