how to empty category trash

  • My host runs CPanel on an Apache server.

    I can’t use my preferred category slugs because they were used earlier and then deleted, but my WP install doesn’t recognize the deletion, insisting the slugs are still in use.

    Could someone please explain how to delete the old category names from the database? (I need explicit instructions re how to access the database. Right now I can see only the files for the execution of WordPress, not the data I put in — such as posts and category names.

    2nd isssue

    I made one product names 1234car and deleted the product but when i go make another product called 1234car in the permalink it names it from 1234car to 1234car-2, i dleted the 1234car but apparently it still somewhere.

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  • Thread Starter Tesla619

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    So what i figured out was i went into myPHPadmin and went into post meta section and post terms section, deleted slugs from post terms but it did nothing.

    Went into WordPress and pages, emptied the trashcan and then i didn’t get that #2 at the end of my link so that told me it cleared out the data completely. Apparently when you trash something WP still see’s it…why ? its in trash.

    So i have an issue now where i have a category named 1234car and when clicked it should go to 1234car but it redirects you somewhere else.?

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