Renaming Taxonomy while retaining its elements

  • Resolved Wordpress Guy

    (@wordpress-guy)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi !

    I added a TAXONOMY named ‘author’ with following details:

    name : author
    label : Author
    attach to post type :posts

    Hierarchical : False

    Problem 1 : Every other name works fine when I click over the tags associated with each taxonomy on my blog. But the tags falling under ‘author’ name leads to PAGE NOT FOUND error. I also re-wrote permalinks to flush the URL structure but to no avail.

    Problem 2 : In bid to overcome from above problem, I wanted to change the name to something else, but when I do that, I can’t see the list of those tags that I associated with the post. So how can I rename it without losing the post tags that went into it ?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/

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  • Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Looks like “author” is a reserved slug: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_taxonomy#Reserved_Terms

    Admittedly, we don’t have any rename methods to update existing content based on post types or taxonomies, but from what I recall, the taxonomy slugs are used in the wp_term_taxonomy table in your database, and those values would need to be updated to the new taxonomy slug.

    Thread Starter Wordpress Guy

    (@wordpress-guy)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks Michael for an immediate answer !

    I too thought that the name ‘author’ might have been a reserved slug or was conflicting with WP default. I just renamed my Taxonomy to ‘authors’ and transferred all the terms to new one with the help of Taxonomy Converter. Now it is working as fine !

    Three cheers for your plugin 🙂

    marking resolved …

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