Parent & Sub Category – Same name, different content?

  • Morphim

    (@morphim)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hi there.
    I’ve trawled the web & various forums but still can’t find a satisfactory answer to this.
    I need to have a parent category called ‘Table’
    But I then need other, different parent categories (e.g. Red, Blue, Green)that has a ‘Table’ sub category.
    The sub category of each needs to show different, unique results but the main ‘Table’ parent category needs to show the results of all.

    I hope that is clear.

    Table – (shows all ‘table’ posts, from the parent & under any of the other sub categories)
    Red>Table (shows only red table posts)
    Blue>Table (shows only blue table posts)
    Green>Table (shows only green table posts)

    Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • Thread Starter Morphim

    (@morphim)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    I solved this.
    The actually needed this for the products on an e-commerce site.
    I import the products using a spreadsheet converted to CVS, which includes category data.
    (WPEC from GetShopped with Product Importer Deluxe by Visser Labs – truly awful support from both BTW)
    It seems the importer messes stuff up on occasion as it creates categories if they don’t already exist & had created a real mess after a handful of updates to the products.
    So, I deleted all product categories then re-uploaded the sheets, which re-created them from scratch.

    This produced the result I wanted : )

    Basically, WP automatically alters the slug for duplicated categories / sub categories (category can be the same name but slug must be different)

    So, all sorted now. Thanks very much to me ; )

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