[wp-testers] Changing tag name changes category with same name

[Jennifer Hodgdon]

The tag and category names, slugs, and IDs are stored together in the 
DB in the Terms table, as of WP 2.2 (or was it 2.3?). When you create 
a tag/category with the same URL slug as an existing tag/category, WP 
recycles the term entry, and that looks like what has happened in your 
case.

I'm not sure how to suggest separating them. You'd probably need to 
delete either the category or the tag, then add it back again with a 
non-matching slug (in 2.5, use the Tag or Category manage page to 
explicitly define the slug when you define the tag/category, instead 
of using the default slug, which is what happens if you use the Add 
Category or Add Tag functionality on the post edit screen). My guess 
is that if you just try to edit one of the slugs at this point, 
they'll still be tied together, but you could try that too and see if 
it works.

     --Jennifer

Joshua Hart wrote:
> I wasn't sure how tags and categories are differentiated from one another
> within the database, but, I found the following behavior odd:
> I have a tag titled "life" and a category titled "Life."  I purposely name
> my tags in all lower-case and my categories get the first letter
> capitalized.  However, I noticed that the tags listed for a particular post
> of mine had one tag with a capital letter as it's first letter when I
> specifically created it in all lower case.  So, I changed the capitalization
> for that tag.  Well, now the category is in all lower-case.  So I changed
> the category back to have a capital letter as it's first letter and now the
> tag matches the category's capitalization.  And so it went.

-- 
Jennifer Hodgdon * Poplar ProductivityWare
www.poplarware.com

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