Title: Weird issue – cannot edit – nonce missing Last modified: October 24, 2025 --- # Weird issue – cannot edit – nonce missing * [Remon Pel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmpel/) * (@rmpel) * [7 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-cannot-edit-nonce-missing/) * Hi. When I try to edit my resume (I created years ago), the page seems to work, yet, changes aren’t saved. * In the HTML the nonce is present on the `` component, but is not passed on in the ajax call to save the changes. * Weird thing is; I downloaded my entire website and tried it in LocalWP, and everything works fine. … I don’t understand 😉 * Would you be willing to share a less minified version of the javascript so I can try to figure out what is going wrong? * Thanks. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [ante1974](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ante1974/) * (@ante1974) * [3 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-cannot-edit-nonce-missing/#post-18841126) * Hello [@rmpel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmpel/) did you resolve your issue? I have exactly the same problem. * [Acato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acato/) * (@acato) * [3 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-cannot-edit-nonce-missing/#post-18841488) * – deleted – - This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by [Acato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acato/). * Thread Starter [Remon Pel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmpel/) * (@rmpel) * [3 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-cannot-edit-nonce-missing/#post-18841492) * Hi [@ante1974](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ante1974/) , no unfortunately not. * (And sorry for the comment above, I was logged in with my employers account, if a mod can remove it, that would be great) * [martinsac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinsac/) * (@martinsac) * [3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-cannot-edit-nonce-missing/#post-18845714) * I had this Issue for more than 7 Months now. Thanks [@rmpel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmpel/) I did some digging and noticed the nonce is not set properly.I assume the call in templates/admin/resume.php setting the nonce is not made in the proper order? Following this guide: [https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/08/understand-and-use-wordpress-nonces-properly/](https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/08/understand-and-use-wordpress-nonces-properly/) The init function must have been called first, which I assume is not the case because the nonce is empty. However the nonce for the wordpress api is set in a callback (in class.resume-builder-admin-enqueues.php) and this apparently works. There are different ways to address this, for example by adding the required nonce (rb_edit_resumes_nonce) to a global variable and retrieving it in main. js from this variable instead of this.opts. However I compared version 3.2 with 3.1.1 and noticed the check `$_POST['rb_edit_resumes_nonce'] ) && wp_verify_nonce( sanitize_key( $_POST['rb_edit_resumes_nonce'] ), 'rb_edit_resumes' )`was only added in the latest version to “class.resume-builder-core.php”, so I simply removed it (pay attention not to mess up the braces when you want to do this)Its not pretty, but it works, and I don’t think the nonce adds a lot to the security, as no permissions are checked anyways. * Edit: I actually signed up just to post this. And the pineapple on pizza thing is really not funny, I had to create an additional account because of it. Another Edit: It would probably make much more sense to use the settings field as mentioned in the article. [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/settings_fields/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/settings_fields/) - This reply was modified 3 months ago by [martinsac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinsac/). - This reply was modified 3 months ago by [martinsac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinsac/). 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