# What scopes exactly does the Wordpress API key need?

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**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-scopes-exactly-does-the-wordpress-api-key-need/175812 "2021-01-11T20:57:39Z")\
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With the Wordpress pre-dating the Admin API scopes by several years I doubt it can work with it.

It’s an interesting feature request.

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