Changing Custom Menu Title Changes Tag Name

  • When creating a custom menu that happens to have the same name as a tag that exists on your site, if you rename the custom menu, the tag (and its slug) are changed as well.

    To recreate the issue:

    1. Create a few tags on your site with some posts corresponding to those tags.
    2. Create a custom menu which has the same name as one of those tags
    3. Save all changes and verify that tags and menus are working properly
    4. Change the name of the menu
    5. Attempt to view the tag page for the tag which previously had the same name as the menu. You should find a 404 page and also see that the tag (and its slug) have been changed to correspond with the custom menu name change.

    This doesn’t seem like expected functionality. Seems like a bug.

    -Scott

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  • If you can confirm this using TwentyTen and no plugins, it might be worth posting in Trac.

    I can confirm that this is an issue and a disturbing one. It basically boils down to the slug. On menus you can’t specify a slug. If you happen to create a menu with the title that matches a slug it gets the same id in the database. Later if you change the tag or menu title they both change. This can cause problems if you are asking for a menu by name or have links to /tag/tag-name. I don’t believe naming your menus some unorthodox name should be a requirement. Categories can get in the mix as well if you name a menu the same as a category slug and then rename either. Seems the menu creation isn’t creating its own taxonomy record to set itself a part from existing tags or categories.

    Submitted a ticket

    https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/16936

    Not sure if this is expected behavior or not. I could see one use for it, when displaying a category/tag post list being able to easily grab a corresponding menu if one exists. However, that seems more handy than a common need.

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