Title: Taxonomy doesn't exist
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Taxonomy doesn't exist

 *  [leandro_S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leandro_s/)
 * (@leandro_s)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-doesnt-exist/)
 * I’ve created custom taxonomy with Types plugin (Currently deactivated).
    In my
   DDBB I can see in ‘wp_term_taxonomy’ a good list of entries with terms and this
   category ‘mytaxonomy’ associated to them. If I try to check if the category exists
   with taxonomy_exists() it saids it doesn’t, if I search for empty ones:
 *     ```
       $taxonomy = 'mytaxonomy';
       $term_args=array(
         'hide_empty' => false,
         'orderby' => 'name',
         'order' => 'ASC'
       );
       $tax_terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
       if(is_wp_error($tax_terms))
       {
         echo $tax_terms->get_error_message().'<br />';
       }
       else
       {
         echo 'No error';
       }
       ```
   
 * It doesn’t exists neither. If I search for custom ones, not built in:
 *     ```
       $args = array(
         'public'   => true,
         '_builtin' => false
   
       );
       $output = 'names'; // or objects
       $operator = 'and'; // 'and' or 'or'
       $taxonomies = get_taxonomies( $args, $output, $operator );
       if ( $taxonomies ) {
         foreach ( $taxonomies  as $taxonomy ) {
           echo '<p>' . $taxonomy . '</p>';
         }
       }
       ```
   
 * It doesn’t appear…
    What is exactly what I can see in the DDBB? A delusion????
   A need a break now, can somebody, please, explain me this?

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 *  [Bob Cristello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gntmidnight/)
 * (@gntmidnight)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-doesnt-exist/#post-6922007)
 * I can’t be sure but I believe that you have to have the plugin active if you 
   used the plugin to create the custom taxonomy.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-doesnt-exist/#post-6922024)
 * Bob’s correct. Without the code to establish the custom taxonomy that was provided
   by the plugin, the DB entries are orphans in a sense. They exist, but you can’t
   do anything with them. To continue testing without the plugin activated, you 
   would need some minimal code to establish the taxonomy (and post_type). Such 
   code could be in your theme’s functions.php. You will need to delete it when 
   you’re done testing and want to reactivate the plugin.
 * If my set object terms solution in your other topic works out, you can stop testing
   and reactivate the plugin without worrying about interim code in functions.php.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-doesnt-exist/#post-6922024)
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