Get Category - Plugixa Recipe for WordPress

Get Category - Plugixa Recipe

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

Read one category with its recipe count.

Needs a signed-in user who can open Plugixa Recipe: the plugixa_recipe_manage capability, or WordPress’s edit_posts (Contributor and up).

Request

GET 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. `data` is the category.

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "",
  "data": {
    "id": "3",
    "language_code": "",
    "translation_group": "",
    "name": "Breakfast",
    "slug": "breakfast",
    "description": "Morning dishes.",
    "image_id": null,
    "display_order": "0",
    "created_at": "2026-11-01 08:00:00",
    "recipe_count": 6
  }
}

Field	Type	Meaning
`data.id`	`string`	The category’s id
`data.slug`	`string`	Unique among categories
`data.description`	`string\|null`	Plain text
`data.image_id`	`string\|null`	Attachment id. `image_url` is added when set
`data.display_order`	`string`	Manual position
`data.recipe_count`	`integer`	Recipes linked to it, in any status
`data.language_code`, `data.translation_group`	`string\|null`	For multilingual sites

Errors

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

Plus the errors every endpoint can return.

Examples

curl -s "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_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', {
  headers: {
    'Authorization': auth,
  },
});
const { data } = await response.json();