Post API tax_relation field doesn’t work

So it turns out this was completely changed in 5.7 and the documentation has, unhelpfully, not been updated to reflect that. More info in the Git commit. Instead of: /wp-json/wp/v2/posts?tags=22,23&tax_relation=AND This URL works: /wp-json/wp/v2/posts?tags[terms]=22,23&tags[operator]=AND

Get more than one author’s posts with REST API

The author parameter in your request, seems to be mapped to the author__in parameter in WP_Query that runs behind the rest-api call here, where a comma separated input: /wp-json/wp/v2/posts?author=1,5 is translated to an array( 1,5 ) input for author__in.

Exclude post_meta from Rest API Endpoint

Yes, it’s surely possible, but not out-of-the-box. I.e. There’s no such REST query parameter in the WordPress core, but you can add it to your REST API request, e.g. via the URL query string, and then use the rest_<post type>_query hook which “Filters WP_Query arguments when querying posts via the REST API” and “Enables adding … Read more