# Site Kit cannot access the WordPress REST API

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/site-kit-cannot-access-the-wordpress-rest-api/32017>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** site-kit\
**Created:** [June 7, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/site-kit-cannot-access-the-wordpress-rest-api/32017 "2022-06-07T16:40:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![sambrockway](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/sambrockway/32/18726_2.png) [@sambrockway](https://community.localwp.com/u/sambrockway)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/site-kit-cannot-access-the-wordpress-rest-api/32017/2 "2022-06-08T10:43:48Z")

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Hi there, David! 👋🏼 Welcome to the Local Community.

As far as I know, Site Kit won’t work with local development - you’d need to push your site out to your host to do the connection on the production site.

Here’s more information about that from the Site Kit documentation:

> **[Using Site Kit with a staging environment - Site Kit by Google](https://sitekit.withgoogle.com/documentation/using-site-kit/staging/)**
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> Note: This guide is only for sites that have a staging environment AND a production site. The staging site displays the production site data. The staging site must be accessible by Google services. A local-only staging site using a service such as...

Please let me know if you have any other questions!

👩🏼‍💻 Sam

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