“Failed to retrieve media” upon trying to change site or organization logo

Edit: error is caused because Yoast relies on REST API to change the logos and the entire WordPress’ REST API was disabled on my site from the plugin W3TC.

TLDR; people check if your REST API isn’t disabled by a plugin or a snippet in your child theme or elsewhere. You can safely disable it again after changing the logo – or at least I think so, as I haven’t found any other unwanted or buggy behavior.

To the Yoast SEO team – Why?
W3TC has an extension for Yoast SEO that does whatever it does, but it doesn’t account nor notify for the unwanted inability to change your organization or site’s SEO logo. Please collaborate with them or further develop your plugin to check if REST is disabled, and provide real and useful information on how that affects your plugin. Scary warnings and factless messages that discourage the user from disabling their REST API are bad (please pass to your dev team).

So, what else that Yoast does, relies on the REST API and might be broken?

Hello @imddev,

Thanks for using the Yoast SEO plugin and for providing us with information on how you resolved the issue.

Many of the plugin features rely on the WordPress REST API to get SEO metadata. So, we encourage you to explore the?Yoast developer portal?and learn more about our usage of the REST API in the plugin.