Title: Using the wordpress api from another file
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Using the wordpress api from another file

 *  [sree01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sree01/)
 * (@sree01)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-wordpress-api-from-another-file/)
 * I want to use the wordpress api from a php(test.php) file located outside the
   wordpress directory.I want to create post and create post category in the wordpress
   from this php(test.php) file. i want to use the following functions
    - wp_insert_post
    - wp_insert_category
    - category_exists
    - wp_set_post_tags
 * please give the list of files to be included to use these functions
 * Sree

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 * [wordpress api](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-api/)

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