Title: Delete Categories in wordpress
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Delete Categories in wordpress

 *  [prs123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prs123/)
 * (@prs123)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-categories-in-wordpress/)
 * I want to delete Categories and its details on WordPress table where Description
   is “CRIS Europe”. Can somebody help me to create the sql statement by using which
   I can perform this operation on MySQL db

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 *  [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-categories-in-wordpress/#post-5710463)
 * Why do you need to delete them from the Database? Can you not just delete them
   from the Categories section in the dashboard?
 *  Thread Starter [prs123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prs123/)
 * (@prs123)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-categories-in-wordpress/#post-5710465)
 * Radices, I have 12000+ Categories deleting from Categories section in the dashboard
   seems to be quiet uncomfortable.
 *  [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-categories-in-wordpress/#post-5710469)
 * I’m not clear on the job as it seemed you were deleting one category but your
   saying that you have 1200 with the same Description? The issue is that they are
   stored in the terms table and link to other tables so its not a straight forward
   Delete From Terms where DESCRIPTION = “CRIS Europe” statement (for me anyways).
 * I haven’t tried this but it might work for you.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-category/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-category/)

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