creating a new category using WordPress rest API

Posted on March 7, 2024 
<?php
function wpAutoPoster($token,$endpointUrl,$data){
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => $endpointUrl,
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'accept: application/json',
    'Authorization: Bearer '.$token
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
return $response;
}


$jwtAuthToken="xxx";


$endpointUrl="https://www.example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/tags";
$data=json_encode(['name'=>'my new tag 1']);

$response=json_decode(wpAutoPoster($jwtAuthToken,$endpointUrl,$data));

var_dump($response);

The above works as expected.

Now, to create categories, just change the following 2 lines:

$endpointUrl="https://www.example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/categories";
$data=json_encode(['name'=>'my new category 1'])