Why I Still Login to a Ton of WordPress Admin Panels
A post on John Chow’s blog led me to an interesting WordPress plugin with lots of potential, especially for network bloggers and administrators. The Manage Multiple Blogs plugin is supposed to let users manage multiple (external) blogs from a single WP control panel.
Yes now you don’t need to logon to multiple blogs if you want to write a post, edit a post, manage categories and yes manage your comments including approving, disapproving, spamming it, replying to it, threaded reply and more.
I’ve tried several add-ons and software that were supposed to help me become more productive by doing just this. But I still return to my old ways. Somehow I still prefer to login manually onto each WP admin panel and do my stuff from within there. Okay, it’s not fully manual since my browser saves my password for each blog.
Force of habit? Not really.
Thing is, with a ton of tabs open on Firefox, I’m prone to drafting blog posts on the wrong tab and hence, the wrong blog. Several times I’ve almost accidentally hit the Publish button. How worse could this stupid carelessness of mine be when all my blogs are in one basket? That would be very confusing and potentially embarrassing, too.
Still, as I said, this plugin shows a lot of potential. Now I wonder why the folks over at Automattic didn’t think of that in the first place. Over at the hosted WordPress.com site you could control all the blogs your account has access to from a single dashboard. Now why can’t you do that on a full, self-hosted version?
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Majestic Bay Theatre Seattle Wa said this on September 15, 2007 1:20 am