REST API Response: (403) Forbidden

[ChrisPAR]

I’m also suspecting the security system, I’ve shared my observations in a similar post:

Options missing when creating new blog posts on Wordpress

I could replicate the issue on a clean WordPress installation, on all default themes. What was interesting is that the feature would sometimes appear, and then disappear again. Having a look at the console, I noticed that it didn’t show up when some requests where failing, which I believe are internal REST API calls failing because of the security system (this is mentioned in the following article): One of the requests failing is wp-json/wp/v2/taxonomies, the request for taxonomies (tags and …