Title: Basic Usage Questions
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Basic Usage Questions

 *  [daitoku](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daitoku/)
 * (@daitoku)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-usage-questions/)
 * Some basic questions.
 * 1. Out of the box if writing(POST) disabled? Most of my use cases are read only.
   If not how can I make it read only?
 * 2. I noticed that the returns are based on post count under settings>reading,
   how can I return all posts if I want to? I tried:
    test.dev/wp-json/posts?posts_per_page
   =-1 test.dev/wp-json/posts?nopaging=true
 * Thanks,
    Eric
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-rest-api/)

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 *  [aryanduntley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunar21/)
 * (@dunar21)
 * [11 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-usage-questions/#post-4821508)
 * 1) Out of the box, valid authorization (correct user privileges) must be set 
   before anyone accessing the API can successfully resolve any create/edit/put 
   requests. The same goes with certain get requests.
 * 2) wp-json/posts/?type=myposttype&page=1&filter[posts_per_page]=1
 *  [jarace87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarace87/)
 * (@jarace87)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-usage-questions/#post-4821510)
 * For all posts it would be -1
 * wp-json/posts?filter[posts_per_page]=-1
 *  [aryanduntley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunar21/)
 * (@dunar21)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-usage-questions/#post-4821511)
 * correct

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