Title: Kill JSON REST API
Author: arminmeth
Published: <strong>February 15, 2017</strong>
Last modified: February 15, 2017

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# Kill JSON REST API

 By [arminmeth](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arminmeth/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/kill-json-rest-api.1.1.zip)

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 * [Development](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/kill-json-rest-api/#developers)

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## Description

While WordPress is slowly but surely becoming a complete application framework and
JSON REST API is huge step in this direction, there is a large number of WordPress
users that do not need advanced features like those offered by WordPress JSON REST
API. This plugin helps them to turn those advanced features off and not worry about
it.

While other similar plugins disable JSON REST API functionality only for anonymous
users, Kill JSON REST API completely disables the framework for all users and removes
links and tags from head element.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/plugin-name` directory, or 
    install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
 3. Test it – go to your-url.com/wp-json and you should see the following message: {“
    code”:”disabled”,”message”:”JSON REST API is disabled.”,”data”:null}

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Kill JSON REST API” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ arminmeth ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arminmeth/)

“Kill JSON REST API” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/kill-json-rest-api/contributors)
for their contributions.

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

#### 1.1

_Release Date – 15th February, 2017_

 * Added functionality to remove API links and tags from head

#### 1.0

_Release Date – 14th February, 2017_

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.0**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress Version ** 4.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.7.33**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/kill-json-rest-api/) and [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/kill-json-rest-api/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/kill-json-rest-api)
 * Tags
 * [api](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/api/)[JSON](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/json/)
   [json api](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/json-api/)[rest](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rest/)
   [rest-api](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rest-api/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/kill-json-rest-api/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ arminmeth ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arminmeth/)

## Support

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