id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
6542,Child Categories error out as Duplicates,hxf148,anonymous,"Hi,

Great work, love WordPress but this recent issue has been a thorn. I really hope that we can sort it out.

After upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 I am getting this error when trying to add a new child category when the name of a that category exists within a different parent.

For example, if I have:

Photos
-Summer

and then I try to add a new category called Summer with a different parent like:

Videos
-Summer

Wordpress is throwing an error:
""The category you are trying to create already exists.""

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From forum mod -> Duplicate Category (and Tag) names are no longer allowed. 

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I think this is a big mistake and will force at least two clients of mine to continue to use pre 2.5 versions or rather I will have to attempt to fix it myself.

From my perspective categories with different parents or levels should be able to have the same literal name. CatA->Apple, CatB->Apple are not the same thing and should be allowed.

Thanks in advance.
Harold

See also ticket #3799
improvements for submitting new categories via wp-admin/categories.php
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3799

Original Forum Post:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164615?replies=1#post-718138",defect (bug),closed,normal,,Administration,2.5,major,duplicate,Child Categories Duplicates,janbrasna