Drew Jaynes

TrustedLogin

Sometimes you just need some help, and when you’re working privately with support personnel for a plugin or theme, creating temporary admin accounts can be a pain.
Support Me makes creating accounts for support purposes a snap:
<ul>
<li>You can set support accounts to expire after a set number of minutes, hours, or days, or even not expire at all.</li>
<li>Once a support account expires, it is automatically deleted.</li>
<li>No more making up fake email addresses or dealing with the full user registration process. Just set an expiration, and generate an account.</li>
<li>You can manage support account sessions just like any other user account.</li>
<li>Easily see when Support Accounts expire in a new ‘Expires’ column on the Users screen</li>
</ul>
And don’t worry about Support Accounts overreaching their bounds on your website. All support accounts are granted full admin privileges with the caveat that they can’t create, edit, promote, or delete other users.
Support Me is also fully compatible with debugging plugins such as Debug Bar, ensuring support personnel can help you solve your problems faster so you can get back to work.
Note: Support Me requires a minimum of PHP 5.3 to be running on your web host. Help move plugin developers and WordPress forward into modern PHP by asking your host to upgrade you today.
Contribute to Support Me
This plugin is in active development <a href="https://github.com/TrustedLogin/support-me" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>. Pull requests are welcome!
Thank you to our <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/support-me" rel="nofollow ugc">community translators</a> on WordPress.org:
<ul>
<li>English (UK) – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/garyj/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gary Jones</a> (@GaryJ)</li>
<li>French (France) – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fxbenard/" rel="nofollow ugc">François-Xavier Bénard</a> (@fxbenard)</li>
<li>German – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pixolin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bego Mario Garde</a> (@pixolin)</li>
<li>German (Formal) – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pixolin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bego Mario Garde</a> (@pixolin)</li>
<li>Italian – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wolly/" rel="nofollow ugc">Paolo Valenti</a> (@wolly)</li>
<li>Russian – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/" rel="nofollow ugc">Sergey Biryukov</a> (@SergeyBiryukov)</li>
<li>Hebrew – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ramiy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Rami Yushuvaev</a> (@ramiy)</li>
<li>Japanese – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nao/" rel="nofollow ugc">Naoko Takano</a> (@nao)</li>
<li>Nepali – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/rabmalin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Nilambar Sharma</a> (@rabmalin)</li>
</ul>

Support Me

I love this idea from the start. Wrote an article with detail step by step about "How to ask for support securely". The plugin was broken on WordPress version 4.8, but Drew fixed it within a day. Super cook, its a must have plugin.

Must Use. Highly recommended!

Allows you to generate expireable user accounts for support purposes.

Adam Anderly

Saint Systems

This plugin gives you the ability to disable specific user accounts via a profile setting.
Once installed and activated, a checkbox appears on the user profile settings (only for admins). When checked, the user’s account will be disabled and they will be unable to login with the account. If they try to login, they are instantly logged out and redirected to the login page with a message that notifies them their account is disabled.
This can be useful in a few situations.
<ul>
<li>You want freelance writers to still show up in the authors box, but you don’t want them to be able to login.</li>
<li>You have former employees who have authored posts and you don’t want to delete them or reassign their posts to other users, but still need them to show up in the “Authors box.”</li>
<li>You are working on a site for a client who has an account, but do not want him to login and/or make changes during development.</li>
<li>You have a client who has an unpaid invoice.</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://github.com/saintsystems/disable-user-login/" rel="nofollow ugc">This plugin is on GitHub!</a> Pull requests are welcome. If possible please report issues through Github.
<h4>Upgrade to Pro</h4>
<a href="https://www.saintsystems.com/products/disable-user-login-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Disable User Login Pro</a> adds powerful tools for managing user accounts at scale:
<ul>
<li>CSV Import & Export — bulk enable or disable hundreds of users at once via spreadsheet</li>
<li>Email Notifications — automatically notify users when their account is disabled or re-enabled, with customizable email templates, merge tags, and optional admin CC</li>
<li>Audit Log — full history of every disable/enable action with timestamps, who performed it, and why</li>
<li>Filterable User List — “Disabled” and “Enabled” filter views on the Users screen with count badges and a sortable Disabled column</li>
</ul>
Perfect for membership sites, nonprofits managing volunteers, agencies onboarding/offboarding clients, and universities managing student accounts.
<a href="https://www.saintsystems.com/products/disable-user-login-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about Disable User Login Pro</a>

Disable User Login

Easy to use plugin that allows you to disable user accounts to prevent them from logging in.

Works as advertised

Disable user accounts without deleting them. One-click enable/disable, bulk actions, force logout, and customizable disabled message.

Support Me vs Disable User Login