Title: Duplicate Sub-Categories
Last modified: June 30, 2018

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# Duplicate Sub-Categories

 *  [andyt1980](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyt1980/)
 * (@andyt1980)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-sub-categories/)
 * Hi,
    I recently launched a cycling blog and want to categorize the posts into
   Location sub-categories that apply to both parent categories. I have 2 main parent
   categories ‘Mountain Biking’ and ‘Road Cycling’. So the sub-categories would 
   be as follows:
 * Mountain Biking
    – Peak District – North Wales
 * Road Cycling
    – Peak District – North Wales
 * However, WordPress doesn’t allow 2 sub-categories to have the same slug. So what’s
   the best way to approach this?. Is my only option to rename the slugs /mountain-
   biking/peak-district-mtb and /road-cycling/peak-district-road?.
 * Also, I need to consider SEO and how these categories will be indexed by search
   engines.
 * Any advice much appreciated.

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 *  [appletvan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/appletvan/)
 * (@appletvan)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-sub-categories/#post-10451184)
 * Hi,
 * For a short answer, it is not possible in wordpress core. 🙂
 * however there is plugin that I bumped into few months ago that may help you out.
   give it a try: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/term-duplicator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/term-duplicator/)
 * Best,
 * Van
 *  [appletvan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/appletvan/)
 * (@appletvan)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-sub-categories/#post-10451189)
 * here’s another one that you can try.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-permalinks/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-permalinks/)
 *  Thread Starter [andyt1980](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyt1980/)
 * (@andyt1980)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-sub-categories/#post-10451456)
 * Thanks for the suggestions, I was really hoping to do this without resorting 
   to using a plugin. I wonder what most people do in this situation, I presume 
   they must just make the slugs slightly different. Or maybe they use some kind
   of filtering plugin like this: [http://demo.designsandcode.com/sfpro-movie-reviews/](http://demo.designsandcode.com/sfpro-movie-reviews/)
 * Alternatively, if I created a Custom Post Type for Mountain Biking and one for
   Road Cycling would that work?.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by [andyt1980](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyt1980/).

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 * Last reply from: [andyt1980](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andyt1980/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-sub-categories/#post-10451456)
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