{"id":313,"date":"2022-01-15T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T10:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/?p=313"},"modified":"2022-01-15T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T10:09:32","slug":"how-to-create-temporary-login-for-wordpress-no-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/how-to-create-temporary-login-for-wordpress-no-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Temporary Login for WordPress (No Passwords)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you hire a developer to perform small tweaks on your websites, they\u00a0may need\u00a0access to the\u00a0admin area\u00a0to edit or check something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you trust the developer, then you can create an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeginner.com\/glossary\/administrator\/\">administrator<\/a>\u00a0account for them and later delete it when they have done their job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, sometimes you may forget that you added someone with privileges to make changes on your website. This leaves your website open to possible security threats and data safety issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using temporary, logins you can create temporary accounts that require no password to login and are automatically disabled after a given time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adding Temporary Login Accounts in WordPress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1.  install <strong>Temporary Login Without Password<\/strong> plugin <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. \u00a0visit\u00a0<strong>Users \u00bb Temporary Logins<\/strong>\u00a0page and click on \u2018Create New\u2019 button to add a new temporary login account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeginner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/temporary-login-without-password.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Submit the Required info and submit the form<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, you need to select a\u00a0user role\u00a0for the user. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, you need to choose the expiry duration for this temporary account. This is the period after which the account will automatically expire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the \u2018Click to Copy\u2019 button to copy the URL and share it with anyone you want to have access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wpbeginner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/click-to-copy-temporary-wordpress-login.png\" alt=\"Click to copy the temporary login URL.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The temporary account will automatically expire after the time period you selected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you hire a developer to perform small tweaks on your websites, they\u00a0may need\u00a0access to the\u00a0admin area\u00a0to edit or check something. If you trust the developer, then you can create an\u00a0administrator\u00a0account for them and later delete it when they have done their job. However, sometimes you may forget that you added someone with privileges to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}