wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php:2306Deletes a term.
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true|IXR_ErrorOne hook fires while wp_xmlrpc_server::wp_deleteTerm() runs, in this order:
Fires after the XML-RPC user has been authenticated but before the rest of the method logic begins.
public function wp_deleteTerm( $args ) { if ( ! $this->minimum_args( $args, 5 ) ) { return $this->error; } $this->escape( $args ); $username = $args[1]; $password = $args[2]; $taxonomy = $args[3]; $term_id = (int) $args[4]; $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.deleteTerm', $args, $this ); if ( ! taxonomy_exists( $taxonomy ) ) { return new IXR_Error( 403, __( 'Invalid taxonomy.' ) ); } $taxonomy = get_taxonomy( $taxonomy ); $term = get_term( $term_id, $taxonomy->name ); if ( is_wp_error( $term ) ) { return new IXR_Error( 500, $term->get_error_message() ); } if ( ! $term ) { return new IXR_Error( 404, __( 'Invalid term ID.' ) ); } if ( ! current_user_can( 'delete_term', $term_id ) ) { return new IXR_Error( 401, __( 'Sorry, you are not allowed to delete this term.' ) ); } $result = wp_delete_term( $term_id, $taxonomy->name ); if ( is_wp_error( $result ) ) { return new IXR_Error( 500, $result->get_error_message() ); } if ( ! $result ) { return new IXR_Error( 500, __( 'Sorry, deleting the term failed.' ) ); } return $result; }Introduced in 3.4.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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