Delete Category - Plugixa Recipe for WordPress

Delete Category - Plugixa Recipe

DELETE /plugixa-recipe/v1/categories/{id}

Delete a category and unlink it from every recipe.

Needs the plugixa_recipe_delete capability, or WordPress’s delete_published_posts (Author and up).

Note. The recipes themselves are kept: they simply lose this category.

Request

DELETE https://your-site.example/wp-json/plugixa-recipe/v1/categories/3

Path parameters

Name	Type	Description
`id`	`integer`	The category’s id

Responses

`200` OK. The category is deleted.

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "Category deleted.",
  "data": null
}

Errors

Status	Code	When
`404`	`rest_error`	No category with that id.

Plus the errors every endpoint can return.

Examples

curl -s -X DELETE "https://your-site.example/wp-json/plugixa-recipe/v1/categories/3" \
  -u "admin:$WP_APP_PASSWORD"

<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://your-site.example/wp-json/plugixa-recipe/v1/categories/3');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST  => 'DELETE',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_USERPWD        => 'admin:' . getenv('WP_APP_PASSWORD'),
]);
$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
curl_close($ch);

const auth = 'Basic ' + btoa(`admin:${process.env.WP_APP_PASSWORD}`);
const response = await fetch('https://your-site.example/wp-json/plugixa-recipe/v1/categories/3', {
  method: 'DELETE',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': auth,
  },
});
const { success } = await response.json();