Title: Renaming Taxonomy while retaining its elements
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Renaming Taxonomy while retaining its elements

 *  Resolved [Wordpress Guy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpress-guy/)
 * (@wordpress-guy)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/renaming-taxonomy-while-retaining-its-elements/)
 * 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/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/renaming-taxonomy-while-retaining-its-elements/#post-5568096)
 * Looks like “author” is a reserved slug: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_taxonomy#Reserved_Terms](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpress-guy/)
 * (@wordpress-guy)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/renaming-taxonomy-while-retaining-its-elements/#post-5568145)
 * 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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 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/renaming-taxonomy-while-retaining-its-elements/#post-5568145)
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