Title: delete_{$meta_type}meta
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# do_action( “delete_{$meta_type}meta”, int $meta_id )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_meta_typemeta/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_meta_typemeta/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_meta_typemeta/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_meta_typemeta/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_meta_typemeta/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Fires immediately before deleting post or comment metadata of a specific type.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_meta_typemeta/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The dynamic portion of the hook name, `$meta_type`, refers to the meta object type(
post or comment).

Possible hook names include:

 * `delete_postmeta`
 * `delete_commentmeta`

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_meta_typemeta/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$meta_id`int

ID of the metadata entry to delete.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_meta_typemeta/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    do_action( "delete_{$meta_type}meta", $meta_id );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/meta.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/meta.php#L1085)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/meta.php#L1085-L1085)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_meta_typemeta/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [delete_metadata_by_mid()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/delete_metadata_by_mid/)`wp-includes/meta.php` |

Deletes metadata by meta ID.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/delete_meta_typemeta/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.4.0/) | Introduced. |

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