[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #6542: Child Categories error out as Duplicates

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#6542: Child Categories error out as Duplicates
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 Reporter:  hxf148                       |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect                       |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal                       |    Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  Administration               |      Version:  2.5      
 Severity:  major                        |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  Child Categories Duplicates  |  
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Comment (by hxf148):

 From forums (wordmonkey):

 I think there's a work around on this - I was using duplicate names for
 categories and, again, it's essential for me that a child of one category
 could have the same name as a child in the other.

 I've managed to get around this by ensuring that the Category Slug for
 each is different. That seems to be the element that Wordpress is checking
 for duplicates. So make your two new categories but put a spelling mistake
 or something in the category name of the second one. When it's made, go
 back and edit the Category Name to the words you want but make sure to
 also change the Category Slug to a corrected version with extra words in
 it - maybe a reference to which parent it refers to or something like
 that.

 So in your example, you could make a child category Summer in parent
 category Photos, no problem. When making the second, initially create it a
 Sumer in Video. Then edit the category once it's made, correct the Sumer
 to Summer and rename the slug to something like summer-videos.

 Seems to work.

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