id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses 29317,Rest API issue: Not able to assign parent category when creating new one.,tsiddhi,,"Following is the information regarding the API call for creating a category. I am passing an existing ""category id"" as ""parent"" but still the parent is being saved as ""0"" every-time. I also tried sending the category name in ""parent"" parameter but still the same response. Web API reference URL : http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/1/post/sites/%24site/categories/slug:%24category/ Api call executed in code : Request Parameter sent : "" ""name=wordpressCateg1&description=wordpressCateg1%20description&parent=253242504"" Response Text : ""{""ID"":257746312,""name"":""wordpressCateg1"",""slug"":""wordpresscateg1"",""description"":""wordpressCateg1 description"",""post_count"":0, ""parent"":0,...}}}"" ",defect (bug),closed,normal,,HTTP API,,normal,invalid,,,