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1. mendezki
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Apparently WP2.3 doesn't allow for using duplicate slugs for child categories like it did in previous versions.

   for example, in a multi-language setup:

   mysite.com/english/projects/postname

   mysite.com/dutch/projects/postname

   wouldn't work any more, since 'projects' as a category slug is only allowed once.

   (A number would be added to the slug if an upgrade is applied, which is undesirable in my case, really)

   I'd love to hear if anyone has a workaround/hack, or any news on if this will be re-implemented in WP2.5 (or any future version for that matter)

2. mendezki
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   OK, I just tried the 2.5 nightly build and (as I expected) it doesn't allow for duplicate category names either.

   (In extension to this stuff, I can't even find a way to edit page or post slugs any more)

3. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Intentionally, duplicate categories are not allowed. See Trac ticket 3799 .

   Also, I think Trac ticket 5749 addresses the slug question.

4. mendezki
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the reply, MichaelH.

   In my second post I wrongfully mentioned category names where I meant to refer to category slugs.

   WP2.3/2.5 does seem to allow duplicate category names (so far) as long as it is a child category. It doesn't however allow duplicate slugs the way it allows for duplicate page slugs (if the page is a child page).

   Apparently this is intended due to the new taxonomy stuff.
   This 'new' behaviour doesn't really facilitate using WP as a cms, permalink-wise (I know, it is a blogging engine ;).

   In my example above, the pre-WP-2.3 possible permalinks:

   mysite.com/deutsch/projects/graphic/postname

   and

   mysite.com/english/projects/graphic/postname

   would turn (for whatever categories are created last) into

   mysite.com/english/projects-1/graphic-1/postname

   Not very desirable, if one is nit-picky about ones' pretty permalinks. Any suggestions (besides using a different cms) are welcomed : )

   Sidenote: Thanks for the howto-edit-the-slug-pointer, my test install doesn't use pretty permalinks yet so I missed that. Adding it to the admin menu when writing/editinging a post would easily be done with a plugin I guess

5. tmuka
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I too miss the old behavior (although the warning is very nicely formatted). I'll be looking for a workaround to this. So far it seems the only workaround is to first create a duplicate category with a different name/slug, setting it to the child of whatever category. Then after it is created, it is possible to edit it and change the name at that point to be a duplicate name/slug.

6. mendezki
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the tip tmuka

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