E. George Stephanis

Another handy little snippet for WordPress …

Have you ever had a client need help on their WordPress site, and have FTP access, but not actually give you a WordPress account to use? Just paste this snippet into their current theme’s functions.php file, or add it to a new file in their ~/wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder, and WordPress will automatically create an admin account for you to use!

Oh — and don’t forget to change the credentials that are included to your own. If there is already an account with the username or email address specified, it will fail and not do diddly squat.

function add_admin_acct(){
	$login = 'myacct1';
	$passw = 'mypass1';
	$email = 'myacct1@mydomain.com';

	if ( !username_exists( $login )  && !email_exists( $email ) ) {
		$user_id = wp_create_user( $login, $passw, $email );
		$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
		$user->set_role( 'administrator' );
	}
}
add_action('init','add_admin_acct');

Remember … with great power comes great responsibility. Don’t abuse it.