Deleted categories mysteriously reappear after a few hoursD

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    alemagna · Member ·

    Blog: https://www.laseroffice.it/blog/
    WebSite in Italy, I am Italian and I do not know English well, sorry.

    My problem is with the WP Categories.
    I have deleted many posts and their associated categories.
    In admin > categories I have 500 elements of which over 400 are empty (count = 0)
    There are so many to delete 0 then I delete them with the following command:

    DELETE FROM wp_term_taxonomy WHERE taxonomy = ‘category’ AND term_taxonomy_id NOT IN (SELECT term_taxonomy_id FROM wp_term_relationships);

    DELETE FROM wp_terms WHERE term_id NOT IN (SELECT term_id FROM wp_term_taxonomy);

    using phpMyAdmin which returns me:
    418 modified in both query

    Checking in admin > categories I now have 82 items

    So far so good but unfortunately after a few hours all the 0 count categories return to be present !!!

    How is it possible?
    How can I solve it?

    Thank you
    Alex

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    justjennifer · Member ·

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