How to Disable REST API Links in WordPress

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You can get rid of all head links to the REST API endpoints from the page source by adding the following code to your theme's functions.php file.

remove_action( 'xmlrpc_rsd_apis', 'rest_output_rsd' );
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rest_output_link_wp_head' );
remove_action( 'template_redirect', 'rest_output_link_header', 11 );

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