Hey, not sure I'm posting this is the right place but here goes.

When I first read about categories, it was the best thing since sliced bread and trying it out on my sandbox site confirmed that indeed it was the cool which I was looking for so I jumped in head first and used it on my very large website.

Now that I'm tweaking things I keep running into issues where my old taxonomies(vocabularies) are needed, but of course I no longer have these since everything has been turned into Categories. For example, the search acts funny, I can't use community_tags because it relies on tagadelic which won't play nice with categories, I did not create views before turning everything into categories so now I can't do a simple "most recently posted in category X" page, and a bunch more oddeties I can't recall right now. It seems every day I want a new module and I find that by using Categories I've shot myself in the foot.

Seems I should have not done categories and stuck with taxonomies, but it's too late to go back (unless someone knows a good way to reverse the process). Could all of this be solved by having categories AND taxonomies - by that I don't mean the wrapper module but actually still having my terms listed in term_node - and if so would that be possible? Might not be the best idea, but I would just like Categories to not mess vital things up, like recently posted pages, search and so on.

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inforeto’s picture

inforeto commented

The taxonomy wrapper should work for all modules that rely on taxonomy and don't play around it.

You may have run into that issue where terms and categories go out of sync.
This usually happens on a bad install, because there's specific instructions to install the wrappers and database table, and step by step order.
I skipped the proper install and caught the "duplicate entry" problem but solved it by using a patch.
That was on 4.7, and now have no problems in 5.1
But i read the issue was not solved in some versions and patches are pending.

The thing is, after category begin to update the terms tables for each node the problem will go away.
For example, the terms filter on views will return results, without need of native category filters.

There might be other problems, but in general, the taxonomy wrapper should behave.

Dabitch’s picture

Dabitch commented

I'm getting rid of Category module all together since it turns out all that I wanted to do, could only be done successfully with the Taxonomy module.

But yes, running them both at the same time actually works, in case someone wants to do that - however, when you make a post you must both choose the taxonomy term AND the category term to keep them in sync which can be a tad annoying.

JirkaRybka’s picture

JirkaRybka commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Yes, I also ran Category and Taxonomy together for a transitional while on 4.7.x, and it worked (just don't install the wrapper). With the wrapper, things also work.

There are other issues for some problems, including the search and also Forum problems.

This is a support request for 4.7.x (unsupported now), nearly 2 years silent now, so closing.