[wp-hackers] wp_terms terms are case sensitive!

Casey Bisson casey.bisson at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 03:10:25 UTC 2012


This isn't my experience.

I'd have to check the code to confirm, but I believe this can only happen if the mysql collation is case sensitive.

Can you confirm what collation is set for the wp terms table?

On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Haluk Karamete wrote:

> Is there a way to force WP
> to not to create different term_ids and slugs (in the wp_terms table)
> when two terms under the same taxonomy are spelled
> differently only by the case?
> 
> Example venus vs VENUS vs Venus.
> 
> The above example gives me 3 different terms, 3 different urls, and my
> posts are diluted.



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