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by octalmage 3217 days ago
The WP REST API is a new way to detect if a site is running WordPress. If you hit the homepage of a WordPress site it will return a link header with a location to the REST API. They can also just hit /wp-json/, or /xmlrpc.php, or many other files that WordPress requires. Like looking for assets served from wp-content, or wp-includes.