I’m wondering the same thing. I’d like to use the category hierarchy for location where photos were taken.
Continent
Country
State/Province
etc
Obviously there’d be duplicate category names.
Ignore my comment, I found a workaround http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6542.
It doesn’t appear for this to be possible with WP2.6.
Unfortunate, as I am working on a project that needs that functionality.
You would think that you could do that with heirarchical categories.
Most of the workarounds are ‘inelegant’, and not really what I would like to recommend a client to do.
This is possible. I have restaurant reviews categorized by state and then by type (I’m running 2.6).
Say I want to create a category Italian (which I have elsewhere, obviously) in a state I haven’t covered yet, say New Mexico.
I’d create a new category called ‘blahblah’ with a slug of italian-new-mexico. it’s the SLUG that counts, not the category. after the category is successfully created, you can then go in and rename it ‘Italian’. you must have a unique slug.
It will work. I have an Italian category in NJ, PA, DE, etc.. It’s not a big deal. Only takes a few seconds longer than it would if it were smart enough to only look at the slug.
