Title: Delete Order metadata
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Delete Order metadata

 *  [ahnabil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahnabil/)
 * (@ahnabil)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-order-metadata/)
 * Hello, i’m trying to delete specific metadata by key from all orders
 * i’ve tried
 *     ```
       add_action( 'wc_delete_order_item_meta', 'please_delete', 10, 2 );
       function please_delete($item_id, $meta_key){
       	global $woocommerce;
           foreach ( $items['order_item_id'] as $item_id ) {
       wc_delete_order_item_meta( $item_id, 'Customs in USD', true );
           }
       }
       ```
   
 * i’m able to delete it from the DB by running this query
    DELETE FROM wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta
   WHERE meta_key = ‘Customs in USD’
 * from functions.php nothing happens, please help
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/)

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 *  [Caleb Burks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/icaleb/)
 * (@icaleb)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-order-metadata/#post-7611633)
 * Where are you finding the `wc_delete_order_item_meta` hook? Your code is probably
   never running.
 * You need to hook into a hook that will for sure run, and then you need to cycle
   through all orders.

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 * Last reply from: [Caleb Burks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/icaleb/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-order-metadata/#post-7611633)
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