Title: Couldnt delete term
Last modified: February 15, 2019

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# Couldnt delete term

 *  [bruceandmrgiggles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bruceandmrgiggles/)
 * (@bruceandmrgiggles)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couldnt-delete-term/)
 * Few weeks ago I created a term in tp settings but it didn’t immediately show 
   up in the created terms (in the tp settings where you can delete them) so I created
   plenty, but still nothing displayed. However, all of them showed up in the term
   dropdown when I was creating a course. I went to the tp settings again but they
   still aren’t displayed so I couldn’t remove them. Days later I tried to create
   new terms, the new terms showed up and are removeable. Can you tell me how to
   delete the old terms? like what file I should open to remove the terms so they
   wont show up in the term dropdown.

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 *  Plugin Author [winkm89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winkm89/)
 * (@winkm89)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couldnt-delete-term/#post-11400750)
 * Hi,
    Terms are just database entries. So, they are not saved in a file. In the
   normal case you can delete terms over the teachPress settings menu. I have not
   really an idea why it doesn’t work in your case.
 * If you have access to your WordPress database, for example over phpMyAdmin, you
   can also view the terms with the following SQL command:
 * `SELECT * FROM wp_teachpress_settings WHERE category = 'semester'`
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by [winkm89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winkm89/).

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