Creating sub-categories via php

Question

You can use the wp_insert_term() function to achive this. First create the parent category, then create a child category.

$parent = wp_insert_term(
    'Parent Category', // category name
    'category', // taxonomy
    array(
        'description' => 'Category description', // optional
        'slug' => 'parent-category', // optional
    )
);

wp_insert_term(
    'Child Category', // category name
    'category', // taxonomy
    array(
        'description' => 'Child category description', // optional
        'slug' => 'child-category', // optional
        'parent' => $parent['term_id'], // set it as a sub-category
    )
);