Title: Create category
Last modified: April 1, 2019

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# Create category

 *  [supernova42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supernova42/)
 * (@supernova42)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-category-2/)
 *     ```
       function insert_category ($category,$description,$parent) {
       $parent_term = term_exists($parent,'media_category');
       $parent_term_id = $parent_term['term_id'];
       wp_insert_term(
           $category,
           'media_category',
           array(
               'description' => $description,
               'slug'        => $category,
               'parent'      => $parent_term_id,
           )
       );
       }
       ```
   

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