Title: Create a category
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Create a category

 *  [monkeypunch3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monkeypunch3/)
 * (@monkeypunch3)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-category/)
 * Is there an existing API to create a category?
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-a-category/)
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