New categories also auto changing tags?

  • sweatereyes · Member ·

    I recently just fixed up my blog a lot. Since my blog was incredibly disorganized before (mainly the categories), I ended up deleting almost all of my categories and making new ones. I did this through the categories section that is on the left hand side of the dashboard. I then made new categories, and assigned all of my posts to it.

    I thought everything went fine (all of my hyperlinks still work), but I noticed that where I had cross over tags and categories, all of my tags have also been changed to my longer, more descriptive categories.

    For instance, I used to have a category of Photography, and a tag of photography, now I have a category of “Fine Art Photography {process, reflection and beautiful images}”, and I still want to have just a regular photography tag. Instead, I have that category and a tag of the same name. I have even went into tags, changed the longer one, but that then changes my category back too… No matter which way I do it, both the tag and the category change. It is doing this for a few categories/ tags, and it is a little frustrating.

    How can I ensure that changing categories does not change tags? Or vice versa?

    To see what I mean here is my blog: https://bulbasaureyes.wordpress.com/

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  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    Do NOT duplicate tags and categories. The search engines treat tags and categories the same and having duplicates can get you labeled a “tag spammer.” If you have a category called “photography” do not have a tag by the same name.

  • sweatereyes · Member ·

    So… do you have any suggestion how/ why this is happening and how I can I stop it?

  • panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    A “photography” tag and a “photography” category is the same piece of data, so you can’t edit the one without making the other change as well. You need to delete both of them, then re-create “photography” as a tag only and the longer one as a category only.

  • sweatereyes · Member ·

    Okay, that was the idea I was assuming from the sacredpath’s comment (that I would need to delete at least one of them). I was mostly confused because I *did* delete all of my categories (with the exception of two of them, however the two that I didn’t flat out delete are not the ones that were giving me trouble now), and make new ones..

    But whatever, I have my categories how I want them, and I deleted any wonky tags. Knowing that wordpress also treats tags and categories the same does help (I did know that SE looked at tags and categories the same, I wasn’t trying to do SEO, I was only trying to make my actual blog easier to move around in and find stuff).

    Thanks for the replies though.

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