Title: disable email encoding for WP REST API
Last modified: May 19, 2026

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# disable email encoding for WP REST API

 *  Resolved [sproutchris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sproutchris/)
 * (@sproutchris)
 * [3 weeks, 6 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-email-encoding-for-wp-rest-api/)
 * I enjoy the email encoding feature, but I don’t want it displaying when I pull
   data from the site’s /wp-json/ REST API. Is there a hook I can use to disable
   it from just the WordPress API?

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 *  Plugin Support [eugenecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenecleantalk/)
 * (@eugenecleantalk)
 * [3 weeks, 6 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-email-encoding-for-wp-rest-api/#post-18912614)
 * Hello sproutchris,
 * We will review your request and respond within 3 business days.
 *  Plugin Support [eugenecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenecleantalk/)
 * (@eugenecleantalk)
 * [3 weeks, 6 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-email-encoding-for-wp-rest-api/#post-18913568)
 * Thank you for waiting.
 * We have an exclusion hook for URLs: [https://cleantalk.org/help/wordpress-hook-exclude-email-encoding](https://cleantalk.org/help/wordpress-hook-exclude-email-encoding).
 * We suggest trying this:
 * add_filter(‘apbct_skip_email_encoder_on_uri_chunk_list’, function($url_chunk_list){
   
   $url_chunk_list = array( ‘wp-json’ ); return $url_chunk_list;});
 *  Plugin Support [sergecleantalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sergecleantalk/)
 * (@sergecleantalk)
 * [3 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-email-encoding-for-wp-rest-api/#post-18917913)
 * Hello.
   We haven’t heard back from you in a few days, so I’m going to mark this
   topic as “resolved”.If you have any further questions, you can start a new topic
   or contact us via our private Ticket System: [https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open](https://cleantalk.org/my/support/open).

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 * Last activity: [3 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-email-encoding-for-wp-rest-api/#post-18917913)
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