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SAM Support Access Manager allows site owners to grant secure, temporary WordPress access to developers, support staff, or contractors without creating permanent administrator accounts.
Instead of providing full admin privileges, the plugin creates a temporary support user with a modified administrator role. This role can be restricted to common maintenance tasks such as plugin updates, content edits, or troubleshooting, while preventing access to sensitive areas like user management or security settings.
Access is granted through a secure one-time login link and automatically expires after a defined period.
During each support session, actions are recorded. When the session ends — either by expiry or manual revocation — the plugin generates a concise summary of changes alongside a full activity log. This helps site owners quickly understand what work was performed.
Typical use cases include:
<ul>
<li>granting developers temporary access for bug fixes</li>
<li>allowing support teams to troubleshoot configuration issues</li>
<li>supervising contractor maintenance work</li>
<li>maintaining an audit trail of administrative changes</li>
</ul>
How support access works
<ol>
<li>Generate a temporary access session and choose an expiry duration</li>
<li>Send the secure one-time login link to the developer or support agent</li>
<li>A restricted temporary admin user is created when the link is used</li>
<li>Selected administrative actions are logged during the session</li>
<li>When access expires or is revoked, a session summary is generated</li>
<li>Review the summary and full event log in the admin dashboard</li>
</ol>
Logged activity includes
<ul>
<li>plugin installation, activation, update, and deletion</li>
<li>theme switches and updates</li>
<li>post and page edits</li>
<li>WordPress core updates</li>
<li>selected settings changes</li>
<li>login and logout events</li>
<li>file editor usage</li>
</ul>
Key features
<ul>
<li>Temporary support users with restricted administrative capabilities</li>
<li>Time-limited access with automatic expiry</li>
<li>Secure one-time login links</li>
<li>Automatic plain-language session summaries</li>
<li>Detailed chronological activity logs</li>
<li>Instant manual revocation of active sessions</li>
<li>CSV export of session data</li>
<li>Automatic cleanup of expired sessions</li>
<li>Fully self-hosted operation with no external services</li>
</ul>
Temporary support users cannot access plugin configuration or session logs.

SAM Support Access Manager

Grant temporary, monitored support access to developers and staff.

Jimmy K.

A plugin to temporarily disable your website front-end and display a message 
to your visitors while still allowing back-end access. This plugin can be 
enabled or disabled with one click and also supports using your own custom 
HTML/CSS output for the splash page so you can make it as simple or as custom 
as you need it to be.
This plugin is especially useful if you need to temporarily make your site 
unavailable to your visitors. For example, you’re working on a new blog or 
website and you want to show a temporary “coming soon” page to your visitors 
while you’re working on it; or you’re fixing major bugs that would disrupt the 
user experience and need to make the front-end temporarily unavailable; or any 
other reason that you would need to make your website temporarily unavailable.
This plugin can be configured to allow admin users (you) to still be able to 
view the front-end while the splash page is enabled. If other users need to be 
able to review the site, you can enable authenticated users and/or specific IP 
addresses to be able to bypass the splash page as well.
<h4>Common uses for this plugin:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Displaying a splash page while you develop your blog or website</li>
<li>Temporarily making your site unavailable to visitors while you fix bugs, etc</li>
<li>Disabling a site if a client refuses to pay (we’ve all been there)</li>
</ul>

Disable Site

A WordPress plugin to disable your website front-end and display a message to your visitors while still allowing back-end access.

SAM Support Access Manager vs Disable Site