Have you ever needed to create temporary WordPress accounts that expire automatically after a given time? Sometimes you will need to create temporary accounts to give temporary access to the dashboard. In this tutorial, we will show you how to create temporary IDs without password for WordPress.
When you will need these temporary IDs
A lot of WordPress newbies often hire developers to do small tweaks on their websites. These developers may need dashboard access to edit or verify something.
If you trust the developer, you can create an administrator account and later delete it when they have finished their work.
Likewise, you can add new users and authors on WordPress and later block the user without deleting their account.
However, sometimes you may forget that you added someone with privileges that will allow them to make changes to your website. This leaves your site open to possible security threats.
With temporary accounts, you can create temporary accounts that do not require a password to log in and that are automatically disabled after a certain amount of time.
That said, let's see how to easily create temporary accounts on WordPress that do not require passwords.
How to add temporary accounts to WordPress
The first thing you need to do is to install and activate the plugin " Temporary Login Without Password plugin ". For more details, consult our guide step by step on how to install a WordPress plugin.
After activation, you must visit the page " Users> Temporary Logins »And click on the button« Create New To add a new temporary account.
This will display a online form where you need to enter login details of the temporary account you want to add.
First, you need to provide an email address for the user and then their first and last name.
Next, you need to select a user role for the user. Be careful when selecting a user role. If you're not sure which user role to assign, then take a look at our guide on user roles and permissions in WordPress.
Finally, you need to choose the expiration time for this temporary account. This is the period after which the account will automatically expire.
Do not forget to click on the button « Submit To save your changes.
You will then see a success message and the URL that anyone can use to sign in to the temporary account you just added. Click on the button " Click to Copy To copy the URL so you can share it with anyone you want to provide access to.
The temporary account will expire automatically after the period of time you have selected.
Management of temporary accounts
The plugin also simplifies the management of temporary accounts. Just visit the " users> Temporary Logins And you will see the list of temporary accounts that you have added to your site.
For each account, you will be able to see the user's name and email address. You will also be able to see the role assigned to them, the date of the last login, and the time remaining until the account expires.
In the actions column, you can expire an account before it expires, delete an account, or copy the temporary login URL.
Once a temporary account is permanently deleted, all contents created by this user (the articles or pages) will be assigned to the administrator as author.
That's it for this tutorial. I hope you will manage to create temporary accounts on WordPress.
