Title: Cannot update product categories
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Cannot update product categories

 *  Resolved [Angela Hathaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angela-hathaway/)
 * (@angela-hathaway)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-product-categories/)
 * When I try t make a change to a product category, I get the message “item not
   updated”. Does anyone else have this problem? I couldn’t find it with a search.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [royho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/royho/)
 * (@royho)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-product-categories/#post-5682792)
 * I have not seen that issue before but it doesn’t seem like an issue with WooCommerce.
   Can you please try deactivating all plugins except WooCommerce and re-test. Let
   me know your results.
 *  [sjulienne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjulienne/)
 * (@sjulienne)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-product-categories/#post-5683165)
 * Hi,
 * I have the same issue. I deactivated all plugins except WooCommerce and retried
   to update product categories. Allways the same message “item not updated”.
 * Many thanks for any help.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/)
 * (@mikejolley)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-product-categories/#post-5683166)
 * The slug may not be unique. Before saving, append a number or something to the
   slug and save.
 *  [sjulienne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjulienne/)
 * (@sjulienne)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-product-categories/#post-5683167)
 * Yes! That’s it! There was a conflict between my post categories and the product
   categories. I changed my old post categories, and it works well now.
 * Thanks a lot for your prompt answer. 😉
 *  Thread Starter [Angela Hathaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angela-hathaway/)
 * (@angela-hathaway)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-product-categories/#post-5683168)
 * Thanks for the help. I had started to add a new product category every time I
   had to change something in the category but that was definitively too much work.
   I tried again modifying a product category and it works now even without changing
   the slug.

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 * Last reply from: [Angela Hathaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angela-hathaway/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-product-categories/#post-5683168)
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