Remove REST API Link Tag from WP Site Header

In one of my previous post, I discussed how to disable REST API in WP. Unfortunately, disabling the REST-API does not remove the API link tag on the the header section of your WP site. So, basically we are showing a link tag on our site’s header section that doesn’t have any function whatsoever.

Now, this is how the link tag shows up on WordPress based site’s header.

<link rel='https://api.w.org/' href='https://yourdomain.com/wp-json/' />

In order to remove the tag simply place the following snippet on your current theme’s functions.php page and you are good to go.

<?php remove_action('wp_head','rest_output_link_wp_head', 10 ); ?>

What we are doing here is fairly simple. We are removing rest_output_link_header function from our site’s header. This function is responsible for generating the tag line which has been introduced since WordPress 4.4. Hope this post helps someone.