{"id":43027,"date":"2020-04-13T06:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T06:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-397385-1251243.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=43027"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T11:46:39","slug":"how-to-safely-grant-access-to-your-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/campfire\/how-to-safely-grant-access-to-your-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"How to safely grant access to your WordPress site"},"content":{"rendered":"
From time to time, you may well need to give a third party, from outside your company, Administrator access to your WordPress site. For example, we are often called in to\u00a0fixing something,<\/a> or perform a website review<\/a>, in such cases, we’ll need to be granted Administrator access on the client’s WordPress site.<\/p>\n So what you don’t<\/strong> want to do is this:<\/p>\n “Hi Joel, our WordPress login details are ADMIN, PASSWORD blah blah blah”.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n There are two key issues here:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are two key things which need to be done:<\/p>\n Let’s drill into those two points<\/p>\n [adrotate banner=”3″]<\/p>\n Wouldn’t it be better to have some sort of audit trail of what the users of your site are actually doing?<\/p>\n Guess what, you can.<\/p>\n The very first thing you’re going to want to do is to install a plugin in your WordPress site which gives you such an audit trail.<\/p>\n We tend to use the Stream<\/a> plugin for providing an audit trail log. E.g. take a look at the screenshot below, it’s showing when users logged in, what they did etc.<\/p>\nHow NOT to do it!<\/h2>\n
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\nEmail hacks occur, and hackers can trawl your inbox for credentials like this.<\/li>\nHow you SHOULD do it<\/h2>\n
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1) Install an audit trail plugin<\/h2>\n
Stream Plugin – accountability audit trail<\/h3>\n