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rest-api plugins
335 plugins in the directory carry the rest-api tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
335
plugins
745,180+
combined reach
169
released in 90 days
24%
quiet 18 months+
2
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug 2026 | Simple JWT Auth – JWT Authentication for WP REST API | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 14 Aug 2026 | SMNTCS Disable REST API User Endpoints | 8,000+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| WooCommerce Legacy REST API The WooCommerce Legacy REST API, which is now part of WooCommerce itself but will be removed in WooCommerce 9.0. | 400,000+ | 1.5★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
| Disable REST API Disable the use of the REST API on your website to site users. Now with User Role support! | 80,000+ | 4.8★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Make Connector Make Connector. Make lets you design, build, and automate by connecting with WordPress in just a few clicks. | 70,000+ | 2.7★ | 7 months ago |
| JWT Authentication for WP REST API Extends the WP REST API using JSON Web Tokens Authentication as an authentication method. | 60,000+ | 4.4★ | 7 months ago |
| Disable WP REST API Disables the WP REST API for visitors not logged into WordPress. | 30,000+ | 4.8★ | 28 days ago |
| WPGraphQL WPGraphQL adds a flexible and powerful GraphQL API to WordPress, enabling efficient querying and interaction with your site's data. | 30,000+ | 4.9★ | 2 days ago |
| WordPress REST API (Version 2) Access your site's data through an easy-to-use HTTP REST API. (Version 2) | 10,000+ | 4.2★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| JWT Authentication for WP REST APIs Secure and protect WordPress REST API from unauthorized access using JWT token, Basic Authentication, API Key, OAuth 2, or external token. | 10,000+ | 4.4★ | 5 days ago |
| Contact Form to Any API Send Contact Form 7 submissions to any API, Webhook or CRM — quick setup, flexible payloads, endpoints and authentication. | 8,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| WP REST API – OAuth 1.0a Server Connect applications to your WordPress site without ever giving away your password. | 8,000+ | 3.7★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| SMNTCS Disable REST API User Endpoints Disable the REST API user endpoints due to obscure user slugs. | 8,000+ | 5.0★ | 24 days ago |
| REST API Log WordPress plugin to log REST API requests and responses | 5,000+ | 3.6★ | 1 month ago |
| Enable Abilities for MCP Connect Claude, ChatGPT & any MCP client to WordPress. 101 abilities: content, SEO, WooCommerce, FSE, LMS & more. Free & self-hosted. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 5 days ago |
| BabyLoveGrowth Integration Secure REST endpoint to publish posts from BabyLoveGrowth.ai backend via API key. | 2,000+ | — | 6 days ago |
| MultiManager WP – Manage All Your WordPress Sites Easily Helps to automatically connect a WordPress site to the ICDSoft WordPress MultiManager tool which allows users to manage multiple WordPress sites from … | 2,000+ | — | 3 months ago |
| REST API Toolbox Allows tweaking of several REST API settings | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 20 months ago · quiet |
| Automatik Blog A plugin for integration with Automatik Blog, allowing automated publishing of SEO-optimized articles via REST API. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 18 months ago · quiet |
| Custom API for WP Connect WordPress with External APIs and create no-code custom WordPress REST API endpoints to interact with the WordPress database to perform SQL ope … | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 3 days ago |
| MB Rest API Get and update Meta Box custom fields to the WordPress REST API responses. | 1,000+ | — | 6 months ago |
| WP REST API Meta Endpoints WP REST API companion plugin for post meta endpoints. | 1,000+ | — | 10 years ago · quiet |
| WCFM – Multivendor Marketplace REST API for WooCommerce REST API for the most featured and powerful multi vendor plugin for your WooCommerce Multi-vendor Marketplace. | 1,000+ | 4.5★ | 17 months ago |
| CoCart – Headless REST API for WooCommerce Ship your headless WooCommerce storefront faster. CoCart is the REST API built for Next.js, React, Vue, and any modern frontend — developer-first. | 900+ | 4.9★ | 5 days ago |
| Disabler Instead of installing a million plugins to disable features you don't want, why not use just ONE plugin? | 900+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| REST API Custom Fields This plugin enhances Wordpress REST API v2 responses about metadata | 800+ | 4.5★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| REST API Featured Image Enhance your WordPress REST API by adding a featured image URL field directly to API responses, improving performance by eliminating extra requests. | 700+ | 4.0★ | 13 months ago |
| Logged-in-only A Plugin to lock down the whole site to prevent public access. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 7 days ago |
| REST API Helper This plugin help REST API for display featured media source, author, categories, and custom fields. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 4.5 years ago · quiet |
| CoCart CORS Support Enables support for CORS to allow CoCart to work across multiple domains. | 400+ | — | 2 years ago · quiet |
| SEO Meta Description Updater A simple plugin to update SEO meta descriptions via the WordPress REST API. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 16 months ago |
| WP OpenAPI WP OpenAPI is a WordPress plugin to provide the OpenAPI spec and a beautifu viewer for your WordPress REST API. | 400+ | 4.0★ | 3 months ago |
| WP REST API – Pure Taxonomies This plugin include all available taxonomy attributes into the WordPress REST API (v2) without additional API requests. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| API Bearer Auth Access and refresh tokens based authentication plugin for the REST API. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Mescio for Agents Mescio for Agents serves your WordPress content as clean Markdown to AI agents and GPT crawlers. Human visitors never notice a thing. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 14 days ago |
| CoCart – Cart API Enhanced Enhances CoCart's cart REST API response. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| CoCart JWT Authentication JWT Authentication for CoCart API. | 200+ | — | 5 months ago |
| DiviOps Agent REST bridge for the DiviOps MCP server, so AI clients can work with Divi-powered WordPress sites. | 200+ | — | yesterday |
| REST API blocks Add gutenberg blocks data into the post / page REST API endpoints. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 8 months ago |
| REST API for Relevanssi The plugin provides a REST API endpoint for the Relevanssi search plugin. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Disable REST API for Real Really prevents the REST API from handling requests (default) or require user to be logged in. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| Sticklight Use WordPress authentication and permissions in external React applications via secure REST API endpoints. | 200+ | — | 3 months ago |
| Traffic Full featured monitoring & analytics for WordPress APIs. | 200+ | — | 20 days ago |
| Advanced WP REST API This plugin provides custom endpoints to the WordPress REST API. | 100+ | — | 3 months ago |
| Init View Count – AI-Powered, Trending, REST API Count post views accurately via REST API with customizable display. Lightweight, fast, and extensible. Includes shortcode with multiple layouts. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 9 days ago |
| REST API Manager For ACF Custom REST API endpoint plugin to return ACF fields, post meta (selected keys), or a mixed object. Fully configurable from the admin settings page. | 100+ | 5.0★ | yesterday |
| SearchWP API Run advanced searches via the WordPress REST API and SearchWP. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Sekura REST Bridge for ACF Expose Advanced Custom Fields in the WordPress REST API with proper access control. | 100+ | — | 5 months ago |
| SEO Rocket Integration Publish SEO-optimized articles from SEO Rocket with automatic Yoast SEO and Rank Math metadata sync. | 100+ | — | 4 months ago |
| Sunny Automatically purge Cloudflare cache, including cache everything rules. | 100+ | 4.2★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Turn Off REST API Disable the WordPress REST API for logged out visitors and lock down your /wp-json endpoints, with a per route allow list so you stay in control. | 100+ | — | 5 days ago |
| WP_Query Route To REST API Adds new route /wp-json/wp_query/args/ to REST API. | 100+ | — | 4 years ago · quiet |
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