Title: Error when updating taxonomy
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Error when updating taxonomy

 *  [VFHwebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vfhwebdev/)
 * (@vfhwebdev)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-updating-taxonomy/)
 * I’m having a weird problem when trying to edit a term in a custom taxonomy.
 * I’m getting the error message: “You attempted to edit an item that doesn’t exist.
   Perhaps it was deleted?”
 * But clearly the term wasn’t deleted because I was just editing it. This is happening
   when I try to edit the “Archive Headline” field for the term. It’s happening 
   with about half the terms in the custom taxonomy. I can edit the other half just
   fine.
 * The taxonomy was created with the CPTUI plugin in case that matters.
 * I tried disabling all plugins (except CPTUI) and using the default theme, it’s
   still happening.
 * Any suggestions?

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 *  Thread Starter [VFHwebdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vfhwebdev/)
 * (@vfhwebdev)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-updating-taxonomy/#post-7529156)
 * BTW, I’ve tried deleting and recreating the specific terms that are problematic
   and it has had no effect. For some of the problem terms, I get the error message
   as soon as I click the edit link. For others it isn’t until I click update.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-updating-taxonomy/#post-7529156)
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