Using backbone, can I prevent the nonce from being set?
Yes, the nonce is by default always being sent via the X-WP-Nonce header – see the source here and here on GitHub. wp.api.WPApiBaseModel.prototype.sync and wp.api.WPApiBaseCollection.prototype.sync can technically be extended or modified, but I would instead disable the nonce header like so, i.e. using <Collection or Model object>.endpointModel: Collection example: const Posts = new wp.api.collections.Posts(); // … Read more