Duplicate Category (and Tag) names are no longer allowed.
Thread Starter
hxf148
(@hxf148)
I think this is a big mistake and will force at least two clients of mine to continue to use pre 2.5 versions.
From my perspective categories with different parents or levels should be able to have the same literal name. CatA->Apple, CatB->Apple are not the same thing and should be allowed.
Very disappointed with this direction.
I’m mixed on that but if you feel strongly about that then open a ticket in Trac with your suggestion.
User your forum login/password there.
Might also refer to Trac ticket 3799 in your ticket.
Thread Starter
hxf148
(@hxf148)
Ticket #6542 (new defect)
Child Categories error out as Duplicates
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6542
Thanks for your help Michael.
I think there’s a work around on this – I was using duplicate names for categories and, again, it’s essential for me that a child of one category could have the same name as a child in the other.
I’ve managed to get around this by ensuring that the Category Slug for each is different. That seems to be the element that WordPress is checking for duplicates. So make your two new categories but put a spelling mistake or something in the category name of the second one. When it’s made, go back and edit the Category Name to the words you want but make sure to also change the Category Slug to a corrected version with extra words in it – maybe a reference to which parent it refers to or something like that.
So in your example, you could make a child category Summer in parent category Photos, no problem. When making the second, initially create it a Sumer in Video. Then edit the category once it’s made, correct the Sumer to Summer and rename the slug to something like summer-videos.
Seems to work.
Thread Starter
hxf148
(@hxf148)
Thanks for the find.
I am confirming that this work around is effective. I’ve added your comments to the trac ticket.
hi
for me and some others it is no solution to change the category slug
this path
category/video/summer/
is another
path than
category/photo/summer
and so I can’t understand wp 2.5
2.
some users do not realize that *change categories to tags* is irreversible
so they would like to have new categories
wp 2.5 they have to delete all tags with the same name
nobody has talk about — this is abolut not fine 🙁
regards
and thanks for open a ticket
sadly, the work-around doesn’t seem to work with 2.7.x
MoFoQ… I just checked, it works in 2.7.x, however we have to kind of fool wordpress to make it happen.
If you already have:
apples
red
green
and then want to add:
grapes
green
black
simply add grapes > ‘green grapes’ (with slug green-grapes), after this rename ‘green grapes’ to ‘green’.
