Managing Multiple WordPress Administrator Accounts

georgekatsoudas2000

Hello folks!

I have a WordPress site, and often need different developers to login and fix something.

In order for them to be able to do so, their account needs to have Administrator privileges.

This means that, after they login (even using LastPass), they can do anything they want in the site... including changing the password of their Administrator account. No email verification needed either (because their account is an admin).

If I create a unique Administrator user for every single developer, at least I can track who did what in my site (there are ways to do this).

If I create a single administrator account to give to all developers, then I can't know who logged in and did what.

Keep in mind it's perfectly normal to have two developers being logged in simultaneously to a WordPress site and working on it.

Should I just stick to creating individual WordPress administrator accounts and giving them out manually? Or can LastPass save me time and energy in this specific scenario? If yes, how? 🙂

Thanks!

rachael.orovets

Hello,

LastPass can generate passwords for any accounts you have and save/autofill these usernames and passwords, although there isn't a way for any password managersincluding LastPassto stopusers from changing account passwords once they are logged in to a site. Limitations on if a user can change passwords or what verification would be needed to make changes to the account itself would need to be done through the site itself (in your example, through WordPress) and not through a password management service.