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Hi TrishaM,

Thanks so much for the reply. You’re the first person to offer any suggestions so far.

I did something very similar to what you’ve described, creating a new temporary category (and then making it the default WP category for a couple moments), deleting the makeup category, and then recreating the makeup category and moving the posts back into it. It didn’t work, but what I neglected to do at the time was go through phpMyAdmin after deleting the makeup category to look for traces of it in the db.

This weekend I’ll give it another try, making sure to go through the phpMyAdmin after deleting the makeup category and before adding it back. Unfortunately, it takes quite a long while to do with 84 posts because even though WP will re-assign post categories to the default category, whatever it is, it only does so when a post has a single category assigned to it. In every instance on my wife’s blog, her posts have multiple categories.

Thanks again for the suggestion. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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Hello, guys. I’ve been bumping this plea for help for a few days now. Just hoping to get some assistance. Does anyone out there have any ideas for me??

Thanks in advance.

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I’ve spent a couple hours now going through the forum here, but haven’t found anything matching the type of issue I’m having.

It’s not life/death now that the .htaccess redirect is in place, but something suddenly caused the word makeup to stop being a valid slug. I concerned that it could happen again to one of the blog’s other categories.

I would appreciate any assistance or insight anyone can offer. Thank you.

As a temporary fix I added a permanent redirect in my .htaccess file, but I would still like to know why I cannot use the word ‘makeup’ as a category slug but can use any other word.

Any ideas, folks?

Thanks in advance.