wp term delete

Deletes an existing term.

Errors if the term doesn't exist, or there was a problem in deleting it.

OPTIONS

<taxonomy> : Taxonomy of the term to delete.

<term>... : One or more IDs or slugs of terms to delete.

[--by=<field>] : Explicitly handle the term value as a slug or id. --- default: id options:

slug
id ---

EXAMPLES

# Delete post category by id
$ wp term delete category 15
Deleted category 15.
Success: Deleted 1 of 1 terms.

# Delete post category by slug
$ wp term delete category apple --by=slug
Deleted category 15.
Success: Deleted 1 of 1 terms.

# Delete all post tags
$ wp term list post_tag --field=term_id | xargs wp term delete post_tag
Deleted post_tag 159.
Deleted post_tag 160.
Deleted post_tag 161.
Success: Deleted 3 of 3 terms.

GLOBAL PARAMETERS

These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.

Argument	Description
`--path=<path>`	Path to the WordPress files.
`--url=<url>`	Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified.
`--ssh=[<scheme>:][<user>@]<host\|container>[:<port>][<path>]`	Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of "docker", "docker-compose", "docker-compose-run", "vagrant").
`--http=<http>`	Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP.
`--user=<id\|login\|email>`	Set the WordPress user.
`--skip-plugins[=<plugins>]`	Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded.
`--skip-themes[=<themes>]`	Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes.
`--skip-packages`	Skip loading all installed packages.
`--require=<path>`	Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once).
`--exec=<php-code>`	Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once).
`--context=<context>`	Load WordPress in a given context.
`--[no-]color`	Whether to colorize the output.
`--debug[=<group>]`	Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help.
`--prompt[=<assoc>]`	Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values.
`--quiet`	Suppress informational messages.