Hi @andre1dev,
Trust you are doing good and thank you for reaching out to us.
The reason we request WordPress admin access is to install the WPMU DEV Dashboard plugin, which is necessary to connect your website to our Hub. If you’re not comfortable providing these credentials, you can use the alternative method of manually installing the plugin, which doesn’t require providing admin access.
Please find more details here: https://wpmudev.com/docs/getting-started/installing-the-wpmu-dev-dashboard-plugin/
Please feel free to get back to us if you need any further clarification, we are happy to assist.
Kind Regards,
Nebu John
I know this is part of the activation process, the question is what is done with this data?
As it is said that the data is not saved, this information is only available once and only at that moment.
Is an access rule created in wordpress? Is something created on the wordpress side and sent back to WPMU?
If, for example, you generate a token to serve as a link between the two sides, instead of asking for a login, it would be better to ask to inform the token.
Again, if you kept this login data somewhere, despite disagreeing, I can see utilities, but since you say that they don’t record, what is done at the time of activation?
Hi @andre1dev
Thank you for response!
There is no access rule created anywhere, the access data is not stored too. What happens is exactly this:
– an API script on our end sends a series of HTTP requests to your site, just like it was about to login to it
– and installs the WPMU DEV Dashboard plugin there
– which it activates on site
– and then API call is made to pass the API key to the enabled plugin (which sets connection with the Hub)
– the end
That’s about the credentials that you are asked for. Nothing else and more is done about it.
After that – yes, there is a “token” (or an API key) in use which “connects” the dashboard plugin (which in turn allows API access/communication) to the HUb but that token is in no way related to the access credentials (it’s not based on those).
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As my colleague explained also – this is not a required method. It is something we already use successfully for years for Pro plugins, for thousands of users and it’s just to make things simpler.
But you can instead simply download the WPMU DEV Dashboard plugin, install it manually on site and activate and then connect it to the Hub. Note that it will require you to login with login and password but those would not be your site’s login and password but your WPMU DEV free account credentials. In such case no admin login credentials are required at all.
Kind regards,
Adam
When I updated to 2.0, in the activation process I landed on this page to provide login data (I don’t remember seeing that there was another way to proceed), which made me rollback to the previous version. But since there is this alternative, even if it’s a more manual job, I’ll take a look again. Thanks.
