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1. luxcious
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   OK, I can understand not wanting duplicate categories and slug's. But when they are have different Parent categories, WordPress should be able to handle that, shouldn't it?

   /Windows/Applications

   and

   /Mac/Applications

   should be able to co-exist.

   I've seen similiar requests on the 'trac' website for WordPress with what looks like a target of WordPress 2.9!

2. MoFoQ
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   yea, originally, you could work around it by using an unique slug but that work around doesn't work with 2.7.x
   Although I submitted a ticket (#9335) for it, the only way might be to add that functionality yourself (sadly).
   I did it by editing admin-ajax.php (line 312) to check the slug, not the "cat_name" for uniqueness.

3. 5ummer5
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Hi MoFOQ

   What code did you have to enter to do this. Ive found where it is and that you need to replace the 'cat_name' but what with? is it simply 'slug'?

   Thanks for your help!

4. laqrhead
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Find the following code (lines 312-318) in wp-admin/admin-ajax.php:

   if ( category_exists( trim( $_POST['cat_name'] ) ) ) {
   		$x = new WP_Ajax_Response( array(
   			'what' => 'cat',
   			'id' => new WP_Error( 'cat_exists', __('The category you are trying to create already exists.'), array( 'form-field' => 'cat_name' ) ),
   		) );
   		$x->send();
   	}

   Replace with this code:

   if ( category_exists( trim( $_POST['category_nicename'] ) ) ) {
   		$x = new WP_Ajax_Response( array(
   			'what' => 'cat',
   			'id' => new WP_Error( 'cat_exists', __('The category you are trying to create already exists.'), array( 'form-field' => 'category_nicename' ) ),
   		) );
   		$x->send();
   	}

   What you are doing is changing the instances of "cat_name" with "category_nicename", This has it check the slug for uniqueness, and not the name.

   I tested briefly for myself and it seems to be working.

5. GuruJi
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Is there any resolution for this problem? The code sample given above doesn't solve the issue described in the first post.

   My issue is the same (with WordPress 2.8):

   Ideally, my site's navigation (www.cmsgoodies.com) is supposed to be this way:

   http://www.cmsgoodies.com/drupal/themes/
   http://www.cmsgoodies.com/wordpress/themes/

   BUT ... after I have created the first of 'themes' slug for lets say drupal, then I am just unable to create another slug called 'themes' for wordpress bcoz WP wants the slug to be totally unique!

   So how is one supposed to go around this problem? I don't wish to compromise on the Information Architecture of my site. Any hack? Any tips? Solutions?

   Thanks.

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