wp-includes/taxonomy.php:4517Checks menu items when a term gets split to see if any of them need to be updated.
$term_idint$new_term_idint$term_taxonomy_idint$taxonomystringfunction _wp_check_split_terms_in_menus( $term_id, $new_term_id, $term_taxonomy_id, $taxonomy ) { global $wpdb; $post_ids = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT m1.post_id FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} AS m1 INNER JOIN {$wpdb->postmeta} AS m2 ON ( m2.post_id = m1.post_id ) INNER JOIN {$wpdb->postmeta} AS m3 ON ( m3.post_id = m1.post_id ) WHERE ( m1.meta_key = '_menu_item_type' AND m1.meta_value = 'taxonomy' ) AND ( m2.meta_key = '_menu_item_object' AND m2.meta_value = %s ) AND ( m3.meta_key = '_menu_item_object_id' AND m3.meta_value = %d )", $taxonomy, $term_id ) ); if ( $post_ids ) { foreach ( $post_ids as $post_id ) { update_post_meta( $post_id, '_menu_item_object_id', $new_term_id, $term_id ); } }}Introduced in 4.2.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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