From 8b5b7a7e75d092c713422197f9da41380143684f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ryan <ryan@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 15:56:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove already exists check for passed in slug. fixes #12349

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@14840 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/taxonomy.php | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/taxonomy.php b/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
index 6f531178b..35781df6f 100644
--- a/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
+++ b/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
@@ -1586,12 +1586,8 @@ function wp_insert_term( $term, $taxonomy, $args = array() ) {
 	$name = stripslashes($name);
 	$description = stripslashes($description);
 
-	$slug_from_name = sanitize_title($name);
-
 	if ( empty($slug) )
-		$slug = $slug_from_name;
-	elseif ( is_term($slug) && ( $slug != $slug_from_name ) )
-		return new WP_Error('term_slug_exists', __('A term with the slug provided already exists.'));
+		$slug = sanitize_title($name);
 
 	$term_group = 0;
 	if ( $alias_of ) {