How-To Securely Give Support Access To Your WordPress Dashboard!
This is a common scenario when you need to give your Developer access to your WordPress Dashboard. Sharing your own admin account is so back-dated and risky, and creating another account and managing that is also troublesome. But thanks to amazing WordPress Community (Especially my friend Drew Jaynes) we have a smart solution now. Sometimes it could be theme developer or plugin developer, or even hosting support guys, that you might need to share Dashboard access for support purpose. You have 100% right to be skeptic, though probably 99% time it won’t have any risk. WordPress Community itself is obviously very giving and helps each other. If a free theme or plugin developer asked for Dashboard access for giving you support, this is already very generous for him. So doubting him also makes the situation looks weird. So, here we have a smart solution.
Problems with Old Method:
Before jumping into the solution lets talk about possible risk with old methods.
# Sharing your own admin account is always risky, it could be a complete mess if it been shared with wrong people, you could loose access completely.
# If you create a temporary admin account and share that, you have to remember,
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13768/how-to-securely-give-support-access-to-your-wordpress-dashboard
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/how-to-securely-give-support-access-to-your-wordpress-dashboard/