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1. samanime
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Hello,

   I have several categories which have parent categories. Each of these categories refers to the same type of content.

   For example, here is how it is right now:
   - blog
   -- fun-blog
   -- extra-blog
   - news
   -- fun-news
   -- extra-news

   I'd like to have it be like this instead:
   - blog
   -- fun
   -- extra
   - news
   -- fun
   -- extra

   So I can have URLs that look like this /blog/fun instead of /blog/fun-blog

   Right now I can't because WP won't allow me to have duplicate category slugs.

   Does anyone know of a method or a plugin I could use to prevent this?

   Thanks.

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Here's a workaround:

   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.

   from: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/161878?replies=6#post-729671

3. samanime
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   If I'm understanding what it says, then I believe that has been fixed by 2.8.5. If I'm reading it right (using my example above), if i rename "fun-blog" to "fun", then rename "fun-news" to "fun" it ends up as "fun-news2" (since when it tried to change it, fun-news still existed). If I try to rename it to "fun" again, it ends up as "fun-news" again.

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