How to use nonces the right way

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Discussed in https://github.com/WordPress/developer-blog-content/discussions/28

^{Originally posted by **bph** December 4, 2022} Thank you to @zzap for suggesting this topic! What would be the flow of such a post?

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Progress update: I have a structure draft for now. Not reviewable yet.

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Working on draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g5-HKh1IOpfeSE2huWQwFN3A1z8ksMfZxwdJ6JL2RoY/edit?usp=sharing

[bph]

That's a great start! I added a comment regarding the code snippet and made some minor suggestions. Looking forward to read the full post.

[bph]

@zzap

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[zzap]

@bph I feel like existing categories are not quite covering it. Why is there Block development and not any other development?

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This is the public preview https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=1746&preview=1&_ppp=e984a00227

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Published https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/08/understand-and-use-wordpress-nonces-properly/

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Do you know how to validate and refresh the nonce? Or how to send it to the REST API endpoints? Find out this and much more in this detailed article: https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/08/understand-and-use-wordpress-nonces-properly/