wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php:3507Deletes a category.
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bool|IXR_Error2 hooks fire while wp_xmlrpc_server::wp_deleteCategory() runs, in this order:
Fires after the XML-RPC user has been authenticated but before the rest of the method logic begins.
Fires after a category has been successfully deleted via XML-RPC.
public function wp_deleteCategory( $args ) { $this->escape( $args ); $username = $args[1]; $password = $args[2]; $category_id = (int) $args[3]; $user = $this->login( $username, $password ); if ( ! $user ) { return $this->error; } /** This action is documented in wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php */ do_action( 'xmlrpc_call', 'wp.deleteCategory', $args, $this ); if ( ! current_user_can( 'delete_term', $category_id ) ) { return new IXR_Error( 401, __( 'Sorry, you are not allowed to delete this category.' ) ); } $status = wp_delete_term( $category_id, 'category' ); if ( true === $status ) { /** * Fires after a category has been successfully deleted via XML-RPC. * * @since 3.4.0 * * @param int $category_id ID of the deleted category. * @param array $args An array of arguments to delete the category. */ do_action( 'xmlrpc_call_success_wp_deleteCategory', $category_id, $args ); // phpcs:ignore WordPress.NamingConventions.ValidHookName.NotLowercase } return $status; }Introduced in 2.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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