# WordPress Categories API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wordpress-categories-api/  
**Provider:** WordPress — https://apis.io/providers/wordpress/  
**Base URL:** https://{site}/wp-json  
**Documentation:** https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/

WordPress Categories API is one of 17 APIs that [WordPress](https://apis.io/providers/wordpress/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 14 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Categories. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, a getting-started guide, and 14 JSON Schemas.

Manage post categories

## Machine-readable artifacts (20)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/openapi/wordpress-categories-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/
- **APIReference** — https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- **Authentication** — https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/using-the-rest-api/authentication/
- **GettingStarted** — https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/using-the-rest-api/
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-post-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-page-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-media-item-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-comment-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-user-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-term-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-settings-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-theme-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-plugin-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-block-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-block-type-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-post-type-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-search-result-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wordpress-rendered-content-schema.json
- **GraphQL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wordpress/refs/heads/main/graphql/wordpress-graphql.md

## Other WordPress APIs (12)

- [WP-CLI](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wp-cli/)
- [WordPress Block Editor API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/block-editor-api/)
- [WordPress AI API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/ai-api/)
- [WordPress Block Types API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wordpress-block-types-api/)
- [WordPress Blocks API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wordpress-blocks-api/)
- [WordPress Comments API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wordpress-comments-api/)
- [WordPress Media API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wordpress-media-api/)
- [WordPress Pages API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wordpress-pages-api/)
- [WordPress Plugins API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wordpress-plugins-api/)
- [WordPress Post Types API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wordpress-post-types-api/)
- [WordPress Posts API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wordpress-posts-api/)
- [WordPress Search API](https://apis.io/apis/wordpress/wordpress-search-api/)

## Tags

Categories

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