About the Categories API

The Categories API allows you to define settings for a specified group of comments. For example, you can specify which site visitors can comment, react, and reply to a site's blog posts or whether to require submitting a rating when leaving comments on product pages.

With the Categories API, you can:

• Create and update categories.
• Retrieve or query categories.
• Handle events that trigger when a category is created or updated.

Use cases

• Turn off guest commenting for a category to avoid spam.
• Retrieve all recent comments from a specific category.
• Restrict permissions for replies to comments on product pages.