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Hiring a website designer - protecting my cpanel & wordpress site

by KathleenM
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I am in the process of hiring a programmer to design a Wordpress blog for me. I am trying to determine the best way to give him the access he needs to do the job while making sure that I can control his access to my hosting account and wordpress once the job is done.

I'm considering that it would be best if I installed Wordpress and created a login for him so that I won't have to give out access to my cpanel. Does anyone have any other ideas or tips?

Thanx!
#contractor #cpanel #designer #hiring #logins #protecting #security #site #website #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author eminc
    Hi,

    1) Create a Wordpress blog in a separate folder and give the blog credentials to them
    2) Create a FTP Account using cPanel, and provide the access to the new wordpress folder, and share the credentials. The designer will have access only to that folder, and thus other things will be protected.

    Mohit
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    • Profile picture of the author DianaHeuser
      Originally Posted by Mohit Jawanjal View Post

      Hi,

      1) Create a Wordpress blog in a separate folder and give the blog credentials to them
      2) Create a FTP Account using cPanel, and provide the access to the new wordpress folder, and share the credentials. The designer will have access only to that folder, and thus other things will be protected.

      Mohit
      What if you want your blog to be installed in the root directory and not a sub-folder? This plan would not work then would it?

      Di
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      • Profile picture of the author eminc
        Originally Posted by DianaHeuser View Post

        What if you want your blog to be installed in the root directory and not a sub-folder? This plan would not work then would it?

        Di
        Hi Diana,

        In programming, we always have two different instances, one Development and the other one is Production.

        First we can ask the programmer/designer to do the work in the development folder. After the work is done and you are satisfied, you can give temporary access of FTP (say for 1-2 hours) for him to upload the changes.

        If the work is about designing, as in templates, the designer can create a template which can be later uploaded in any wordpress installation. If its a plugin, same goes with that too. For custom tweaks, temporary access can work, and when the job is done, you can delete that account forever

        Mohit
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  • Profile picture of the author Gaz Cooper
    I would install Wordpress and then just make a him a new user and give them temp admin access, once the job is done you can just remove them.

    This what I do and it works well for me

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    • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
      Kathleen,

      I bumped into this about the time I started selling hosting to my clients. I handled this by using my reseller account with Hostgator.

      A reseller account lets you setup and maintain individual sites, cpanels, etc.

      I created an account in WHM for the site which creates a cpanel.
      Gave my VA access to that account. NOT to WHM!
      Showed her how to do backups and e-mail those backups to my g-mail account.

      Don't know if this helps but there you go.

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