Can someone overtake my website if I give them temporary WP admin access?

  • I have created a Woocommerce website.
    I have gone as far as tech support from hosting company and theme developer can go.

    I think for the last leg of some web design elements I need to hire a guy from Fiverr. He says he needs admin access to the website to do the work.

    After combining the net I’ve learned that this might be required as part of the job and I can achieve this by creating a temporary user with admin rights.

    I will also create a backup copy of my website before I give him any access to do what he needs to do.

    My questions are:
    1. Can he delete ME (like I will delete him after the work is done) and thus taking over my entire website?

    2. Can he change his own password or do something that might disable/prevent me from deleting him?

    Thanks

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Yes for (1) and (2). If someone has admin, they effectively own your site. Be careful who you choose. Have a backup. When they’re done, change ALL passwords associated with your site.

    Thread Starter niznotthewiz

    (@niznotthewiz)

    If I only give him access to staging site, how would I transfer all the coding though from staging site to my production site once he is done? Any decent way to accomplish that for someone who has to ask such a question? ??

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    It would depend on how you create the staging site. If you do that, make sure you delete their login *before* rolling the site into production.

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