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// Remove init rest routes
remove_action( 'rest_api_init', 'create_initial_rest_routes', 0 );

// Remove oembed rest routes
function remove_json_api () {

    // Remove the REST API lines from the HTML Header
    remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rest_output_link_wp_head', 10 );
    remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_oembed_add_discovery_links', 10 );

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<?php
// this is to add a fake component to BuddyPress. A registered component is needed to add notifications
function custom_filter_notifications_get_registered_components( $component_names = array() ) {

	// Force $component_names to be an array
	if ( ! is_array( $component_names ) ) {
		$component_names = array();
	}

	// Add 'custom' component to registered components array