Tag and Category names

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  victorktey · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 11:18 am

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  Hi,

  It seems the tag and category names are linked. I have a Category called “Soulwinning” and a Tag called “soulwinning”. But when I update the tag or category it updates the other… I want my categories with capitals and my tags lowercase.

  Is this possible?

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Mar 23, 2015 at 7:54 pm

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  Howdy!

  They’re acting ‘linked’ because the two items are each using the same slug of ‘soulwinning’ (slugs are always lowercase.) This normally shouldn’t be possible — if you have a category called Soulwinning then create a tag called soulwinning, the tag should be given a slug of “soulwinning-2” to make sure it’s separated. Do you recall where you created each of these tags and categories so I can test and replicate this issue?

  My recommendation would be to visit your Edit Tags page here…

  https://thechurchinpunchbowl.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag

  … and make note of the two pages which have the ‘soulwinning’ tag.

  While on that Edit Tags page, delete the ‘soulwinning’ tag.

  Create a new tag named ‘soulwinning’ and watch it name the slug ‘soulwinning-2.’

  Add that soulwinning tag to your two posts once again.

  With that separate slug, there should be no issue capitalizing the two names differently.

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  victorktey · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 12:41 pm

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  Thanks, so it’s just a bug that I have to sort of “undo” by recreating the tag/category so the slug is different.

  Is there a way to rename the slug without deleting one of them? because then you’ll need to go back and re-categorize or re-tag all the posts with the deleted slug right?

  I would have created the category under the “categories” section in “posts” and then the tag would have been created either in the “edit blog” screen whilst I was editing a post or I would have added it when “quick editing” the posts. Hope that helps you replicate the issue.

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 1:52 pm

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  Thank you for that information. :)

  I’ll continue testing the issue and report it to our developers once I find the cause.

  Is there a way to rename the slug without deleting one of them? because then you’ll need to go back and re-categorize or re-tag all the posts with the deleted slug right?

  Deleting and re-tagging is the simplest thing, and I see that you’ve already completed that. But I guess in a situation if you had lots of posts with that tag, you could avoid it by changing the tag name to a placeholder text like ‘temporary’, then view all the posts with the tag of ‘temporary’ and bulk edit them to add the tag of ‘soulwinning’ — this tag creation will create the differentiated slug we’re looking for. Then just go back to your edit Tags page and delete ‘temporary.’