Comments on: WordPress: Are you sure you want to do this?

By: Shayne

Shayne — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:10:46 +0000

Thanks man. This saved my life.

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WordPress のプラグインで設定を更新しようとする真っ白のページに英語でエラーメッセージが出る | ウェブル — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:02:07 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:19:48 +0000

Hi Sam,
Thanks for the comment. You get this error when submitting a form that doesn’t have a NONCE input field attached to it. I assume you are writing a plug-in that has a form, so whatever file is generating that form, that’s where you add it. If it isn’t your plug-in that’s causing the error then I suggest contacting the original author for a fix. “Which file?” doesn’t really apply as it will be different in each case.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:55:40 +0000

i quote “It’s added to the plug-in file that is generating the form”
this is your answer to somebody asking which file?
which file like this bro;
wp-admin/filename.php
i mean which is the plug-in file that is generating the form???
the name of the file please! stop assuming everyone knows what you talk about just because you do

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:53:40 +0000

Hi this looks like what i am looking for for my widgets in wordpress, which wont let me save them for the message you refer to appearing.
But you do not mention the names of the files which should have these snippets inserted nor which line, so its pretty vague info should i put this in widgets.php??

By: Russ

Russ — Sun, 15 May 2011 12:33:09 +0000

I spent hours trying to fix. Then contacted my host and they ran a permission check and fixed it.

By: Luke Gedeon

Luke Gedeon — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:30:29 +0000

Thanks your note led me to the solution. In my case though I left out a hyphen in the hidden field and then checked for it when processing. :)

Looks like several plug-in got hit with similar problems.

Also, I think the message is intentionally cryptic to throw off people trying to work around the nonce.

By: Elvis

Elvis — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:28:05 +0000

Hi,
In my case the issue was the specific plugin that one “Google Analytics 3 codes for WordPress”, when I disabled it, everything is back to normal.

I hope help someone

By: William

William — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:43:08 +0000

And of course out in the non-geek community, the word ‘Nonce’ is a slang term for a pervert or sex-offender.

WP_Nonce, anyone?

Hmmm. For a second there I thought there must be a joker at WP writing code…

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:35:48 +0000

Hi Vinayak,
I’ve added a slight update to the post which will hopefully make it a little clearer. It’s added to the plug-in file that is generating the form; it may be that you are receiving the error for a different reason. It isn’t the most helpful error message.