Autologin Links
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 viewed by users on their profile, it might be considered an INSECURE plugin for WordPress. I did my best to make it as secure as possible to fit my own needs, but this lead to some design choices which might not sit well with all administrators: Autologin codes are saved as plain text. This means that anyone who can execute queries on the WordPress database (plugins, administrators, system administrators) can obtain the autologin code for a certain user. I planned an extension of this plugin where login codes are hashed. However, this again has the disadvantage that noone can redisplay a once generated login link. This is the most severe problem. For a full self-assesment of possible security issues regarding this problem, please visit the plugin website.
Companion Auto Update
Companion Auto Update is a powerful and completely free plugin that allows you to manage all the updates on your WordPress site. Our aim is to give you the best control over these updates and stay in the know at all times. We understand that you might not always be able to check if your WordPress site has any updates that need to be installed. Especially when you maintain multiple websites keeping them up-to-date can be a lot of work. This plugin can help you with that. We’ll keep your site up-to-date and keep you posted about what’s happening and notify you when we need your help with something. If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature Main features Auto-updating for plugins, themes, core and translation files Set at what time you wish to update Filter plugins and themes to not be updated E-mail notifications about old software, pending updates and completed updates An update log with all updates Option to delay automatic updates with an x number of days Full control over everything Full control, that’s what this plugin is all about. With this plugin you can enable (or disable) automatic updating for plugins, themes, WordPress core updates (both minor and major can be changed separately) and for translation files. Don’t want to run the updater for all plugins? Don’t worry, just disable auto updating for the plugins you’d like to skip and we can even notify you when there’s an update for these plugins so you can go and update them yourself. Scheduling By default we’ll check for updates twice a day but you can change this to several different options if you’d like. When choosing to update on a daily basis you can even select at what time you’d like it to run. Besides the updaters you can also schedule te notifications, want to update every hour but only recieve notifications once a day? No problem! Sometimes developers will push an update that will cause errors on your site, they’ll often fix it within a day but if the updater has run in the mean time it can cause all kinds of issues. Now you can choose to delay updates with an x number of days to prevent this from happening. Know what’s happening We want you to know what’s happening on your website. This plugin offers settings for various email notifications. We can send you an email when an update is available, when a plugin has been updated or when wordpress has been updated. But if you don’t want to recieve emails about this you can still log in and view the changelog to see what happened.
