Title: JSON API disabled ?
Last modified: February 8, 2017

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# JSON API disabled ?

 *  [hopstudios](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hopstudios/)
 * (@hopstudios)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-api-disabled/)
 * Hi there,
 * We’ve created a plugin that adds API endpoints to the official JSON API that’s
   included in WordPress, accessible with the /wp-json/ URL.
 * However, we’ve got a user’s website that doesn’t seem to have this URL available.
   It throws back a 404. And because of that, our plugin is useless as we can’t 
   access the endpoints. Even though the website is using 4.7.1. I believe the API
   should be enabled by default, right ?
 * I’m not sure what I can do to debug that issue, as I don’t have direct access
   to the site. The use disabled all plugins except for mine, still no API endpoint
   accessible. Could the source of the issue be in the template ?
 * Also, can I add some code in my plugin to check if the JSON API is working/enabled
   properly ?
 * Thanks

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 *  [Alex Floyd Marshall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apmarshall/)
 * (@apmarshall)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-api-disabled/#post-8783415)
 * I think, but I could be wrong, that you’ve swapped the JetPack API endpoint in
   for the core WP-API endpoint. I believe that for WordPress proper the endpoint
   should be /wp/v2/ The JetPack plugin also contains a JSON API module, which I’m
   guessing is what uses the /wp-json/ endpoint. So it may be that you are getting
   the 404 error because you’re using the JetPack API endpoint without the JetPack
   plugin being installed or the JetPack API module being activated.
 * Hope that helps!
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [Alex Floyd Marshall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apmarshall/).
 *  [Alex Floyd Marshall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apmarshall/)
 * (@apmarshall)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-api-disabled/#post-8783506)
 * I sit corrected after looking back at the documentation in more detail: the full
   endpoints for core are /wp-json/wp/v2/ and custom endpoints do use /wp-json/ 
   So I’ve got nothing. Sorry.
 *  [Alex Floyd Marshall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apmarshall/)
 * (@apmarshall)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-api-disabled/#post-8783548)
 * Except this: [https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html](https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html)
 * I know the site you are trying to debug is using 4.7.1, so it wouldn’t have been
   impacted by whatever changes were made to the API in 4.7.2 to address this issue,
   but could they be using a WAF or security plugin that turned off some/all of 
   the API functionality to block this issue? Don’t know how you check for that 
   without direct access to the site.

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Alex Floyd Marshall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apmarshall/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/json-api-disabled/#post-8783548)
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