[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11058: Add unregister_taxonomy()

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#11058: Add unregister_taxonomy()
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 Reporter:  scribu       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Taxonomy     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |
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Comment (by jakemgold):

 'unregister_taxonomy' is unquestionably a hot mess (and what we should
 probably strive for is an early hook in register_taxonomy that can prevent
 taxonomy registration, particularly for something like posts, rather than
 unloading it all after the fact).

 Not sure that this applies to unregistering the taxonomy for an object
 type, however, even for "core" taxonomies against post. I've used this
 somewhat extensively, even before this patch, and never encountered any
 serious glitches, and none that would count as a legitimate "bug." There's
 a certain... "weirdness" to lingering references to Categories and Post
 Types in the admin ("Right Now", permalink settings, etc) when no objects
 are actually using them (probably because we ideally want to get to
 unregister_taxonomy...), but nothing breaks, since any "retrieval" of
 individual object terms - even core ones - all goes through the abstracted
 taxonomy functions, and the taxonomy still exists, protecting against any
 direct taxonomy references (e.g. core category / tag archives).

 Any idea where there might be something more subtle lurking that would
 break?

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