Title: bug delete_term
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# bug delete_term

 *  [overherz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/overherz/)
 * (@overherz)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-delete_term/)
 * if i have two categories with custom fields, eg 2 and 21, and I want to remove
   category #2 function delete_term() will delete in both categories!
 * fix
 *     ```
       function delete_term( $term, $tt_id, $taxonomy, $deleted_term )
       	{
       		global $wpdb;
   
       		$values = $wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare(
       			"DELETE FROM $wpdb->options WHERE option_name LIKE %s",
       			'%' . $taxonomy . '_' . $term . '\_%'
       		));
       	}
       ```
   
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-delete_term/)
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