Add ability to keep logged in into few different accounts on WPEngine at the same time

[ben.turner]

Hey @SippingHenn – Welcome to the Local Community Forums!

There’s a few feature requests along the lines of what you are describing:

How to manage sites accessed when switching "Accounts" in WP Engine?

There’s an older thread here which seems to address this, but the workaround is not sufficient. I have a single username managing 3 WP Engine “Accounts” (accessed by using the “Switch Accounts” functionality in WP Engine). The solution suggests that the sites should still be pulled via the API when logged in as that user, which I am, but I only see the sites listed in my “main” account, and none of my other client sites, severely limiting my ability to use Local for my needs. Am I missing a st…

Connect Local to multiple WPEngine accounts (or at least switch context)

I am a developer on multiple WPE accounts (i.e. they signed up on my recommendation) I recently switched back to Local - from other Docker-based solutions because I can organize my development in a logical fashion (i.e. suits me) I can only connect with one account at a time at the moment. It would be great if I could setup multiple connections with sites associated with each.

In general, you shouldn’t be accessing the remote sites with your client’s API login credentials. Instead, you should create a user account on WP Engine and then have your clients add this user to their site as is outlined in this reply to one of the above topics:

Connect Local to multiple WPEngine accounts (or at least switch context)

Reading the title of this feature request, it’s true that Local can’t connect to multiple WP Engine user accounts, but reading through the description of this topic, it seems like the end goal is to be able to see and interact with all the remote sites that you have directed your clients to create on WP Engine. I think that this functionality (having access to multiple remote sites owned by others) is already present. The general workflow would be: You, the developer, create a new user on W…

Can you try that workflow and let us know if that allows you to access those accounts? If I’m missing something about this workflow, I’d love to know more to get a better idea for ways to improve Local’s connection to WP Engine!