Why aren’t tags and categories added in post request to WP Rest API
You are using name in your terms. In default, try to use the existing term id ( in your case, cat ID and tag ID ). If you see https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rest-api/trunk/lib/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php#L918 they will handle your term with sanitize them into non-negative integer using absint. I hope this help. Here example code to hook rest_insert_{$this->post_type} to create … Read more