Question

I’d like to use wp_insert_category() to create a category that’s displayed as “My Category” but has a category slug of “test-my-category”.

Can I do this with wp_insert_category? Anyone have an example?

Answer 1

Yes you can. Do the following:

$category = array('cat_name'=>'My Category', 'category_nicename'=>'test-my-category');
wp_insert_category($category);

cat_name is used for the title of the category whilst category_nicename is used for the slug.

Function Reference:wp insert category « WordPress Codex