Basically, Latest version of WordPress has 2 categories by default
1. Tags
2. categories.
Categories and tags are ways to organize and find posts within a blog and across blogs. Categories are like topics whereas tags are more like keywords.
Few days back my friend asked me, How can I delete terms from WordPress.yes, You can delete manually from WordPress admin panel but when you have a lot of terms in hundreds or thousands of value then it takes a lot of time.
As a developer, manually delete which is not the good way so you need to apply query which can delete the terms from the database.
So I have written one script to delete terms/taxonomies from database, just a few minutes and your all taxonomies removed from database like Magic 🙂
You need to create one custom file and put it into WordPress root folder. place below codes into it.
Here is the code for that.Let’s dive into it.
NOTE:Make Sure You Have the backup of the entire database so that you can get back to a known state if things go wrong.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | //include file require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/wp-load.php"); //Query Code $results= $wpdb->get_results("select * from {$wpdb->prefix}term_taxonomy where taxonomy LIKE 'post_tag'", ARRAY_A ); foreach ($results as $row){ $wpdb->query("delete from {$wpdb->prefix}terms where term_id = '".$row['term_id']."'") ; $wpdb->query("delete from {$wpdb->prefix}term_relationships where term_taxonomy_id = '".$row['term_taxonomy_id']."'"); } $wpdb->query("delete from {$wpdb->prefix}term_taxonomy where taxonomy LIKE 'post_tag'"); //if translation plugin installed into wordpress,apply below query $wpdb->query("delete from {$wpdb->prefix}icl_translations where element_type LIKE 'tax_post_tag'"); |
Copy above code and place it.That’s it you’re done,I have tested it with latest version of wordpress 3.5.1 too.
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