Title: auto generating a category
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# auto generating a category

 *  [seansnv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seansnv/)
 * (@seansnv)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-generating-a-category/)
 * I have a page template that looks for all posts within a category with the same
   name as the title of the page. This requires that when a new page is created 
   with this template that a new category is created at the same time. It would 
   be ideal if I could auto create a category of the same name when the template
   is first applied.
 * So, how do I create a category using php?

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