Get …/wp-json/wp-offload-media/v1/state/ Error 403 Rest Forbidden

WP Offload Media’s settings page uses the WP-REST-API to talk to the WordPress backend, but isn’t being allowed to use REST calls.

Does the site have WP-REST-API disabled?

-IJ

Hi, thanks for the reply.

No the site does not have the REST api disabled and the /wp-json/ can be accessed without problem. Any other sources that could be causing this issue?

Hi, I have managed to scope down the issue.

Apparently, the errors only appear when I change the site url to be a different one rather than the same one as the wordpress address. Because my site is a headless site, different subdomains for frontend and backend.

Maybe the plugin doesn’t cater for this type of scenario?

The plugin uses the standard get_rest_url() function supplied by WordPress to determine where requests should go to.

That function does indeed look to use the home_url for the base of its URL.

There is a rest_url filter you could likely use to override the returned URL.

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/hooks/rest_url/

-IJ

Hi, thanks for the context.

If I were to add the rest_url filter in the plugin function, wouldn’t it be overwritten when your plugin is updated to a new version.

@haydenng664 that’s right, you should never edit our plugin’s code.

Instead you should add a filter function to your child theme’s functions.php file, or to a custom plugin of your own.

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/plugins/hooks/filters/

Your developer should be able to help you out with this and correctly set the URL for your headless setup.

-IJ

Thanks!

I have found the snippet that I need from wptips:

// change WordPress API URL to HOME URL
add_filter('rest_url', 'wptips_home_url_as_api_url');
function wptips_home_url_as_api_url($url) {
    $url = str_replace(home_url(),site_url() , $url);
    return $url;
}

It is working now. Thanks!

Excellent news, thanks for sharing your solution!

-IJ