Single login for multiple users

  • Is it possible to give users the same username/password for an area of a wordpress install or Multisite Install without any complications in the long-run?

    I know I can password protect posts…but I really want to have an entire section of a site blocked unless you have the proper creds…but I don’t want to have to have users get their own unique login…just use the one I give to them. They would only have viewing access so I’m not concerned with editing implications.

    Thanks in advance

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  • uh… don’t do it! give each person separate logins. or check out the great plugins for multi-user administration

    Thread Starter JsonB123

    (@jsonb123)

    Why shouldn’t I do it? Do you have an example of what could go wrong?

    Again, I will not be having a “Sign-up” page but rather giving users a pre-determined username/password. This is just for a “private” sector of the site. I could always resort to setting up a private directory in the CPanel…but I’d rather just do it through WordPress.

    Does anyone else have any experience in this matter?

    Thanks!

    Well there’s all kinds of existing plugins and stuff for this, assuming you have different users.

    but you could also make a Guest user and one password. I’m assuming here you’ll be giving them all the details some secure way.

    Thread Starter JsonB123

    (@jsonb123)

    Hi Andrea! Thanks for the quick reply:

    Yes, they would all be receiving the password in a secure manner…I was just mostly wondering if it would be a conflict in SESSIONS or anything deep down like that.

    I know I can just give the users the username/password for one account…which is what I want to do, without any plugins.

    Thread Starter JsonB123

    (@jsonb123)

    So before I mark this as “resolved” I just want to double-check that having a “guest” login (a single username/password to be used by multiple people, perhaps at the same time in different locations on different computers) wouldn’t cause any errors with sessions or cookies, etc.

    These people using the “guest” login would only be reading areas of the site, not creating content.

    Thanks!

    Hello,
    I would be interested to know whether you have implemented this single username/password on your private blog and whether it works well.
    I would appreciate your feedback and your experience, as I would like to implement a similar system.
    Thanks in advance,
    odiiru

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