post_form’s _wponce, what is it?
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(scroll down to find bold part of code, please explain what is that?)
<form id="postform" class="postform" action="/forums/bb-post.php" method="post" name="postform"><p>
<label for="topic">
Topic title: (be brief and descriptive)
<input id="topic" type="text" tabindex="1" maxlength="80" size="50" name="topic"/>
</label>
</p>
<p>
<label for="post_content">
Post:
<textarea id="post_content" tabindex="3" rows="8" cols="50" name="post_content"/>
</label>
</p>
<p>
<label for="tags">
Enter a few words (called
<a href="/forums/tags.php">tags</a>
) separated by spaces to help someone find your topic:
<input type="text" tabindex="4" value=" " maxlength="100" size="50" name="tags"/>
</label>
</p>
<p>
<label for="forum_id">
Pick a section:
<select id="forum_id" tabindex="5" name="forum_id">
</select>
</label>
</p>
<p class="submit">
<input id="postformsub" type="submit" tabindex="4" value="Send Post ยป" name="Submit"/>
</p>
<p>
Allowed markup:
<code>a em strong code ul ol li blockquote</code>
.
<br/>
Put code in between
<code>backticks
</code>.
</p>
<strong><input type="hidden" value="XXXXXX" name="_wpnonce"/></strong>
<input type="hidden" value="/forums/" name="_wp_http_referer"/>
</form>
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S010 – i think the _wpnonce is a security mechanism that checks for the posting source.
That’s what I was thinking the other day when looking for an answer to this question, but it wasn’t fully clear to me, so I didn’t bother responding
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