WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Change Category Name http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-category-name WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Change Category Name en Thu, 23 May 2013 12:17:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 phoxis on "Change Category Name" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-category-name#post-393517 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:30:36 +0000 phoxis 393517@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Actually i have some tags common to the categories. Like i am posting some stuff under programming category which is not tagged with programming.

Whatever i will go delete the tag, i think its the best.

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Change Category Name" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-category-name#post-393514 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:25:58 +0000 panaghiotisadam 393514@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Aha (should have checked your blog before replying)! What you’ve been doing is wrong:
a) Tags and categories are they same thing actually, and they function in exactly the same way, so there's no point in using the same word or phrase as both a tag and a category.
b) Doing so creates the problem you encountered as well as a permalink problem if you use subcategories.
c) If you unnecessarily multiply tags and categories like that, you may be considered a spammer and get excluded from the global pages.

]]> phoxis on "Change Category Name" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-category-name#post-393509 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:05:03 +0000 phoxis 393509@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have renamed parent previously, but I think i have found the problem. I have also a tag "programming" . When i tried "Programmming" to rename to "Programing" (three 'm' s to two 'm' s) it worked. So It cannot rename a category to a same named tag and vice versa.

But the strange part is, i already have a same name for a tag and a category "Humor"

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Change Category Name" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-category-name#post-393508 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:02:08 +0000 panaghiotisadam 393508@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Parent or no parent is irrelevant. If updating won’t work, you’ll have to resort to “worst case”.

]]> phoxis on "Change Category Name" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-category-name#post-393504 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:50:52 +0000 phoxis 393504@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ doesnot work, as i told before : "Category not updated." . The category i am trying to rename is a parent.

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Change Category Name" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-category-name#post-393502 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:48:21 +0000 panaghiotisadam 393502@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Should be dashboard sidebar > Categories: hover over category name, click Quick Edit, correct, update.

]]> phoxis on "Change Category Name" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/change-category-name#post-393496 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:22:03 +0000 phoxis 393496@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello,
I just noticed a accidental spelling mistake in a category name "Programmming" . I want to correct it. But i when i try it tells me "Category not updated." . This category is a parent and has more than one child. Please suggest a simple way to correct the spelling. In worst case i will have to delete this category and make a new one.

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