WordPress hook directory
delete_category
Warning!
As of WP version 2.3, this hook has been renamed to delete_$taxonomy.
Description
Runs just after a category is deleted from the database and its corresponding links/posts are updated to remove the category. Action function arguments: category ID.
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WordPress version history for delete_category
This database has information for all major versions from WP 1.2.1 through 2.6. (Note that some intermediate versions are not indexed, particularly 2.0.1 through 2.0.10.) If 2.6 does not show up below, then this hook is deprecated.
| Version | File | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5.2 | wp-admin/categories.php | View hook in source | action |
| 2.0 | wp-admin/admin-db.php | View hook in source | action |
| 2.0.11 | wp-admin/admin-db.php | View hook in source | action |
| 2.1 | wp-admin/admin-db.php | View hook in source | action |
| 2.1.3 | wp-admin/admin-db.php | View hook in source | action |
| 2.2 | wp-admin/admin-db.php | View hook in source | action |
| 2.2.1 | wp-admin/admin-db.php | View hook in source | action |
| 2.2.2 | wp-admin/admin-db.php | View hook in source | action |
| 2.2.3 | wp-admin/admin-db.php | View hook in source | action |
| 2.3 | Renamed. See delete_$taxonomy |
Related Hooks
We find related hooks using word stems. delete_category has 2 significant word stem(s): delete, category. Note that some of the hooks below may not appear in all versions of WP.