Title: Automatically create categories
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Automatically create categories

 *  Resolved [Martin Black](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ownedbyhleb/)
 * (@ownedbyhleb)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-create-categories/)
 * I am currently developing a theme which has a number of categories that are used
   for positional elements on the homepage. I would like a way of automatically 
   creating these categories for the user when they activate the theme? Is there
   anyway this is possible?
 * I’ve tried using `wp_insert_category()` but this triggers `Fatal error: Call 
   to undefined function wp_insert_category()`. Any ideas? I’ve even tried replacing
   my `taxonomy.php` with the [latest version from trac](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.2.1/wp-admin/includes/taxonomy.php)
   to no avail…

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 *  Thread Starter [Martin Black](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ownedbyhleb/)
 * (@ownedbyhleb)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-create-categories/#post-2325762)
 * Solved using [Category Importer](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-import)

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 * Last reply from: [Martin Black](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ownedbyhleb/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-create-categories/#post-2325762)
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