Title: Custom Taxonomy Question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom Taxonomy Question

 *  [jessedrelick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessedrelick/)
 * (@jessedrelick)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-taxonomy-question/)
 * Hi!
 * I have some custom taxonomies registered, but it seems I cannot add terms dynamically
   except for in hooks…
 * For example, I have a function I run within a plugin, and when it runs I would
   like to add new terms with wp_insert_term(‘the-term’, ‘the-taxonomy’)…
 * However, it does not seem to work unless it’s in the ‘init’ hook or something
   similar… is there something I’m doing wrong or must these terms be added in the‘
   init’ hook?

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