Autologin Links

Version: 1.12.0

Version : 1.12.0

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WARNING: THIS PLUGIN CAN BE INSECURE IF NOT USED CAUTIOUSLY. Allows selected users to autologin to your WordPress website via autologin links.

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This plugin allows admininstators to generate autologin links for their WordPress website, logging in visitors under a certain user name. Administrators can edit (generate and delete) autologin links for users, users can only view their autologin links. Note that This plugin bypasses the standard authentication method of wordpress via login and password and should only be used if you understand the security issues mentioned below and on the plugin website. Usage Once this plugin is activated, administrators can generate autologin links on the edit profile administration pages for different users. Users can view their autlogin links on their profile pages. Autologin links are of the form: http://yourwebsite/[subdirectory/]?autologin_code=ABC123 For more convenience it is possible since version 1.05 to generate login links directly using the wordpress, site-preview functionality. When viewing the page while being logged in as an administrator, the top-bar will show an extra item “Auto-login link”. When pointing at the menu item, a dropdown list will list all users for whom autologin links were generated on their profile pages. When clicking on one of the users, a popup will open showing the link that will automatically login a visitor as the selected user and bring him to the current page. Security issues Since autologin links are meant to be an OPEN way to login to your website and can be...

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This plugin allows admininstators to generate autologin links for their WordPress website, logging in visitors under a certain user name. Administrators can edit (generate and delete) autologin links for users, users can only view their autologin links. Note that This plugin bypasses the standard authentication method of wordpress via login and password and should only be used if you understand....

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- 0.07s
/(front page)
+ 0.02s
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 0.22s
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
- 0.17s
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 0.01s
/wp-admin/index.php
- 0.26s
/wp-admin/media-new.php
- 0.07s
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
- 0.03s
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
+ 0.03s
/wp-admin/post-new.php
- 0.23s
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
- 0.06s
/wp-admin/upload.php
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+ 21.37KB
/ (front page)
- 2.79KB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 3.29KB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 3.42KB
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 3.42KB
/wp-admin/index.php
+ 3.42KB
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 3.31KB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 3.35KB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 0.72KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 4.97KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 4.42KB
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 3.29KB

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