Master Password like MailChimp

  • Hi All,

    Ok just had a thought. I use MailChimp for my Email Marketing for all my clients. They have a cool system where once I have logged in I can see a list of all the different accounts and pick which one I want to access then switch between them.

    I know we have WordPress Multisite but when you have different independent sites you have to look after that won’t work inside a Multisite set up and having to keep logging in and out and remembering usernames and passwords for them all.

    Is there a way that you could do what MailChimp does. The site gives a user access then the user when they log in the see access to all sites and pick where they go.

    It would help people like me when they are managing several clients or when a client has several websites that need to be independent and they don’t want 20 usernames and passwords.

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  • On a multi-site install, yes, that’s built in and pretty easy. On a range of self-hosted sites… no. While it’s possible (with a whole heap of hacking) it’s really not practical, or a good idea.

    The biggest problem is that youre comparing two very different things. Mailchimp is more relevant to WordPress.COM if a user has multiple blogs/sites. They are all hosted on the one service, aren’t distributed across a whole heap of individual servers (and possibly hosting companies) that have no relation. Having multiple www.remarpro.com sites means that they could be anywhere in the world, and there’s pretty much almost no chance that they’ll be able to be attached to each other at all.

    On top of that, if you’re managing the sites for individual clients, how do you think they’d feel if they found out that their istes are linked to every other one of your other clients sites? some might be OK, but we’ve got a lot of clients that would never allow that.

    If you’re concerned about username and passwords, there’s two easy solutions that people, including me, do use – and I’m managing a whole lo tmore then 20 sites these days. The first is to save the username and passwords in my browser. as I’ve got a desktop PC at work it’s not the same security concern as there is if it was a laptop, so that’s something for you to take into consideration. The second is to use a password manager to keep track of everything. That’s a great idea if you use public computers, or need to be mobile.

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