Title: [Plugin: Edit Flow] Problems with custom statuses
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Edit Flow] Problems with custom statuses

 *  [TristanCM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tristancm/)
 * (@tristancm)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-edit-flow-problems-with-custom-statuses/)
 * Hi there,
 * I explored using Edit Flow’s custom statuses to give more descriptive statuses
   than Draft/Pending/etc.
 * Unfortunately, I decided on my fresh install to delete all statuses and start
   again.
 * Once I deleted draft, I could not re-establish draft. The error message says:
   _Status name conflicts with existing term. Please choose another._
 * This means with Edit Flow enabled, all previous posts that were drafts are now
   unable to be found (without direct links to a post).
 * If i disable Edit Flow, Drafts reappear (phew).
 * Therefore, the problem is that I’ve lost the ability to have Drafts!
 * I’ve uninstalled, deleted, reinstalled and the same options I previously (erroneously!)
   chose return. I can’t find a solution, and I’d really like to use Edit Flow.
 * Can provide more info if you’d like.

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 *  [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-edit-flow-problems-with-custom-statuses/#post-2682796)
 * Can you check to see if you have a category or tag named “Draft”? There’s probably
   a conflict with another taxonomy.
 *  Thread Starter [TristanCM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tristancm/)
 * (@tristancm)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-edit-flow-problems-with-custom-statuses/#post-2682800)
 * Yes, there were no custom statuses called ‘Draft’, and creating ‘Draft’ again
   to replace failed.
 * It seems the slug draft was never entirely deleted, even though I did (accidentally)
   trash it.
 *  [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-edit-flow-problems-with-custom-statuses/#post-2682802)
 * Er, can you check tags and categories? I think you mistook my last comment
 *  Thread Starter [TristanCM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tristancm/)
 * (@tristancm)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-edit-flow-problems-with-custom-statuses/#post-2682803)
 * Oh right, I think I did too. Gotcha. Yes, we do have a Post Tag called draft –
   I’ll remove it and test in the morning when I’m on my server. Thank you 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [TristanCM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tristancm/)
 * (@tristancm)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-edit-flow-problems-with-custom-statuses/#post-2682876)
 * Yep, this was the problem. Thank you Daniel, very much appreciated. I don’t think
   I’d have made that connection.
 *  [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-edit-flow-problems-with-custom-statuses/#post-2682910)
 * Great to hear 🙂
 *  [Scott Bressler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sbressler/)
 * (@sbressler)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-edit-flow-problems-with-custom-statuses/#post-2682925)
 * Can we work around this so the conflict doesn’t happen?
 *  [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-edit-flow-problems-with-custom-statuses/#post-2682963)
 * [Created an issue for it](https://github.com/danielbachhuber/Edit-Flow/issues/82).
   If you want, feel free to open a discussion on the dev P2. I’m generally not 
   a proponent at this time because our “fix” would just work to reduce the likelihood,
   and it would be a pain to implement.

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 * [custom statuses](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-statuses/)

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 * Last reply from: [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-edit-flow-problems-with-custom-statuses/#post-2682963)
 * Status: not resolved

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