Title: Plugin Settings not Saved
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Plugin Settings not Saved

 *  Resolved [leromt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leromt/)
 * (@leromt)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-settings-not-saved/)
 * Any changes that I make on the Plugin Settings page are not retained. I keep 
   getting the following message:
 * “Are you sure you want to do this?
 * Please try again.”
 * DEBUG doesn’t show anything that helps.
 * Any thoughts?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-users/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-users/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mike Walsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpwalsh8/)
 * (@mpwalsh8)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-settings-not-saved/#post-5393197)
 * The only I’ve seen that when WordPress has stale cookies. Try logging out and
   back in and then try it again. There hasn’t been any changes to how Email Users
   saves settings in a couple of years.
 *  Thread Starter [leromt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leromt/)
 * (@leromt)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-settings-not-saved/#post-5393337)
 * Mike,
    No love. I even tried a different browser.
 * I’m testing this on my local dev environment (Mac). Does the save function touch
   any files within the plugin directory or just touch the db itself?
 * On a side note, I never received notification that you answered me…sorry it took
   so long to reply back.
 *  Plugin Author [Mike Walsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpwalsh8/)
 * (@mpwalsh8)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-settings-not-saved/#post-5393340)
 * The Save operation uses the WordPress API to save settings to the database. It
   does not touch any of the files. The message you are seeing is due to a bad NONCE(
   number used once) which is a WordPress security feature which plugins use to 
   ensure the operation is legitimate.
 * There is a [post on WpBeginner.com](http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this-error-in-wordpress/)
   on how to find the source of this problem. I do not think it is a Email Users
   plugin issue.
 *  Thread Starter [leromt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leromt/)
 * (@leromt)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-settings-not-saved/#post-5393342)
 * Mike,
 * Yes, I too do not believe that Email Users is the problem…sorry for the assumption.
 * Based on the link you provided, I Googled it a little further and found [this post](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/60957/what-causes-the-are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this-error-with-plugins).
   I added the check_admin_referer method, as given, but it still gave me trouble.
   I then used the last solution offered on that page…basically returning true for
   the function…of course that worked.
 * Since this is on my dev server I’m going with that for right now. However, I 
   can’t figure out what the actual problem is.
 * Thanks for guiding me in the right direction and sorry for the hassle.
 * Tom

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 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [leromt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leromt/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-settings-not-saved/#post-5393342)
 * Status: resolved