Warn Users about problems with "Status" used as taxonomy

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Tagged: Setting up custom taxonomy, Types plugin

This topic contains 4 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Christian Cox 4 years, 9 months ago.

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April 5, 2020 at 9:27 pm #1574897

Suzan

Hi Christian,

I want to issue something else for your information and knowledge base:

I discovered that if I create a taxonomy called: "status" wordpress refuse to save my custom post and returns an parameter error and doesn't save and change the status of the post. I run into this accidentally and asked my host provider to help my with this issue. An attentive help desk person notified me about this taxonomy conflict created with the toolset plugin and the problem disappeared.

I hope this can be made clear in the taxonomy creation page so other users of the toolset don't run accidentally in making the same mistake

Best regards,

April 5, 2020 at 9:48 pm #1574901

Christian Cox

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Hello, thank you for the report. I agree, it will be very helpful to stop this type of problem. Just to be clear, is this the error message you are referring to? It is shown in the Block Editor when editing a post. Are you seeing the error message anywhere else?

April 7, 2020 at 9:04 am #1576791

Suzan

Hi Christian,

Thank you for your reply and providing the screen. Yes this is exactly what I've been seeing while updating or saving my single post. I didn't see it anywhere else but on single posts.

Best regards

April 7, 2020 at 10:00 am #1576851

Suzan

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!

April 7, 2020 at 1:48 pm #1577181

Christian Cox

Please note there is a list of terms reserved by WordPress here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Reserved_Terms
I will report your concern to our developers and see if we can add some validation to new taxonomy slugs based on the reserved term list, or add some pertinent messaging to the software. I'll let you know what I find out.