Title: REST API error
Last modified: August 27, 2020

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# REST API error

 *  Resolved [mchiemeka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mchiemeka/)
 * (@mchiemeka)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-error-17/)
 * I got this error message from my site health check, and I believe the error is
   coming from yoast seo plugin. Here is the message below:
    The REST API call gave
   the following unexpected result: (403) {“description”:””,”hierarchical”:false,”
   name”:”Posts”,”slug”:”post”,”taxonomies”:[“category”,”post_tag”],”rest_base”:”
   posts”,”yoast_head”:”<!– This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.8.1–
   https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ –>\n<title>All University News–
   Latest News from JAMB, WAEC, UTME, NECO, NABTEB, Scholarship<\/title>\n<meta 
   name=\”description\” content=\”Latest News from JAMB, Post-UTME, WAEC, NECO, 
   NABTEB, Screening, Scholarships\” \/>\n<meta name=\”robots\” content=\”index,
   follow\” \/>\n<meta name=\”googlebot\” content=\”index, follow, max-snippet:-
   1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\” \/>\n<meta name=\”bingbot\”
   content=\”index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-
   1\” \/>\n<link rel=\”canonical\” href=\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.com\/\” \/
   >\n<meta property=\”og:locale\” content=\”en_US\” \/>\n<meta property=\”og:type\”
   content=\”website\” \/>\n<meta property=\”og:title\” content=\”All University
   News – Latest News from JAMB, WAEC, UTME, NECO, NABTEB, Scholarship\” \/>\n<meta
   property=\”og:description\” content=\”Latest News from JAMB, Post-UTME, WAEC,
   NECO, NABTEB, Screening, Scholarships\” \/>\n<meta property=\”og:url\” content
   =\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.com\/\” \/>\n<meta property=\”og:site_name\” content
   =\”All University News\” \/>\n<meta name=\”twitter:card\” content=\”summary_large_image\”\/
   >\n<meta name=\”twitter:site\” content=\”@AUN_OFFICIAL\” \/>\n<script type=\”
   application\/ld+json\” class=\”yoast-schema-graph\”>{\”@context\”:\”https:\/\/
   schema.org\”,\”@graph\”:[{\”@type\”:\”Organization\”,\”@id\”:\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.
   com\/#organization\”,\”name\”:\”All University News\”,\”url\”:\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.
   com\/\”,\”sameAs\”:[\”https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/aun360\/\”,\”https:\/\/twitter.
   com\/AUN_OFFICIAL\”],\”logo\”:{\”@type\”:\”ImageObject\”,\”@id\”:\”https:\/\/
   alluniversitynews.com\/#logo\”,\”inLanguage\”:\”en-US\”,\”url\”:\”\”,\”caption\”:\”
   All University News\”},\”image\”:{\”@id\”:\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.com\/#
   logo\”}},{\”@type\”:\”WebSite\”,\”@id\”:\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.com\/#website\”,\”
   url\”:\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.com\/\”,\”name\”:\”All University News\”,\”
   description\”:\”Latest News from JAMB, WAEC, UTME, NECO, NABTEB, Scholarship\”,\”
   publisher\”:{\”@id\”:\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.com\/#organization\”},\”potentialAction\”:[{\”
   @type\”:\”SearchAction\”,\”target\”:\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.com\/?s={search_term_string}\”,\”
   query-input\”:\”required name=search_term_string\”}],\”inLanguage\”:\”en-US\”},{\”
   @type\”:\”CollectionPage\”,\”@id\”:\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.com\/#webpage\”,\”
   url\”:\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.com\/\”,\”name\”:\”All University News – 
   Latest News from JAMB, WAEC, UTME, NECO, NABTEB, Scholarship\”,\”isPartOf\”:{\”
   @id\”:\”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.com\/#website\”},\”description\”:\”Latest
   News from JAMB, Post-UTME, WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, Screening, Scholarships\”,\”inLanguage\”:\”
   en-US\”,\”potentialAction\”:[{\”@type\”:\”ReadAction\”,\”target\”:[\”https:\/\/
   alluniversitynews.com\/\”]}]}]}<\/script>\n<meta name=\”msvalidate.01\” content
   =\”CA6E\” \/>\n<meta name=\”google-site-verification\” content=\”b9u8_NIBX6iLsw2VeaFzdEt3ghLb2vGEhlwDsz6A\”\/
   >\n<meta name=\”yandex-verification\” content=\”a903b70cf1345e12\” \/>\n<!– \/
   Yoast SEO plugin. –>”,”_links”:{“collection”:[{“href”:”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.
   com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types”}],”wp:items”:[{“href”:”https:\/\/alluniversitynews.
   com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts”}],”curies”:[{“name”:”wp”,”href”:”https:\/\/api.w.
   org\/{rel}”,”templated”:true}]}}.

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 *  [Priscilla Chapman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/priscillamc/)
 * (@priscillamc)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-error-17/#post-13325601)
 * Hi [@mchiemeka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mchiemeka/),
 * We’re sorry to hear you’re having this problem. Since this may be due to conflict
   with a plugin or theme installed on your site, we’d like you to test whether 
   this problem still happens if you deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch
   to a standard theme like [Twenty Nineteen](https://wordpress.org/themes/twentynineteen/).
   Does the REST API error appear in Site Health?
 * We have a step-by-step guide here: [How to check for plugin conflicts](https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-check-for-plugin-conflicts/).
 *  Thread Starter [mchiemeka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mchiemeka/)
 * (@mchiemeka)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-error-17/#post-13327255)
 * The issue have been rectified, thanks for your concern.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-error-17/#post-13327255)
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