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1. ipublica
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello,
   I ran into a strange category problem. I have grouped my 35 audiobooks into three categories, here they are:
   - Audio Books (audio-en)
   - Audiobücher (audio-de)
   - Lives Audio (audio-fr)

   Each category for one language. Now, after uploading to the server, two of the categories were changed automatically and I tried desperate to change them back to what I had setup, but impossible, WordPress would just not allow it. Here is what I got

   - Audio Books (audio-books)
   - Audiobücher (audio-de)
   - Livres Audio (lives-audio)

   You can see it here:
   http://www.ipublica.com/category/audio-books/

   I want to preserve the consistency in naming, but WordPress didn't allow to do it. I erased all my files on the server, and reuploaded to reproduce the error and it did it three times exactly like that.

   Then I erased all categories and resetup my own categories on the server installation. So far that worked. Then I had to get the posts again in the categories and here is the problem. Using the function to put several files at the same time into a category, by default WordPress assigns to each file two categories, the one I chose and 'uncategorized'. To get the uncategorized category away I would have to treat every single post again and resave it. That really put me off and I left the categories as WordPress assigned them but this is not what it should do.

   Do you have any idea why WordPress did that?
   Thanks in advance.
   Pierre

2. henkholland
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi Pierre,

   If you go in Admin/Posts/Categories you will see in the overview for your categories that each one has a "slug" A slug is an url friendly representation of your category name. You can alter it in the edit screen to audio-en etc etc

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