@Jennifer, I figured that's what was happening - terms being tied to the slug field - but, just wanted some validation. Thanks for the responses and I'll try different slug names. Thanks again.
-Josh On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Jennifer Hodgdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > Drupal/WordPress Sites, Themes, Modules/Plugins > Custom Web Programming, Web Databases > Modeling/Analysis/Palm OS Software > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
