Give Amabrik access to your WordPress site

If you’d rather not paste the Amabrik snippet yourself, Amabrik can install it for you. To do that we need an account with the Administrator role on your WordPress site. The safest way to grant it is to create a separate Administrator user for us, not to share your own login.

A dedicated user is safer because you can see exactly what we do, you never reveal your own password, and you can remove our access in one click when the install is done. The steps below take a couple of minutes.

Before you start, you need to be an administrator yourself, since only an administrator can add users. If you’re not sure, see Create an admin account on WordPress first.

Use the email Amabrik gives you

When you submit the Request Installation form, Amabrik confirms the exact email address to use for the new user. Use that email, and only that email, when you create the account below. Don’t guess an address. WordPress requires an email to create any user, and it’s where the login details get sent, so the address has to be the one Amabrik confirmed to you.

1. Open Add New User

1. Sign in to your WordPress admin at yourdomain.com/wp-admin.
2. In the left menu, go to Users > Add New (on some WordPress versions it’s labeled Users > Add New User).

On a WordPress.com site, manage this from your site’s dashboard under Users, then Add New User or Invite. The idea is the same: add a person with the Administrator role using the email Amabrik gave you.

2. Fill in the new user

1. Username: type something clear like amabrik-install so it’s easy to spot later. (Usernames can’t be changed after, but you’ll delete this account when the install is done, so it doesn’t matter much.)
2. Email: enter the exact email address Amabrik confirmed to you when you submitted the Request Installation form. This is required.
3. First name, last name, and website are optional. You can leave them blank or put Amabrik.
4. Password: WordPress generates a strong password for you. Leave it as generated.
5. Send User Notification: keep the Send the new user an email about their account box checked. That emails the login details to the Amabrik address so we can sign in.
6. Role: this is the important one. Open the Role dropdown and choose Administrator.
7. Click Add New User.

That’s it. WordPress emails the sign-in details to the Amabrik address, and we add your snippet. You don’t need to send us the password yourself; the notification email handles it.

Fallback: a temporary login

If creating a user doesn’t work on your setup (some managed or restricted hosts limit this), you can instead share a temporary admin login with Amabrik. If you go this route:

• Share the login only through the secure channel Amabrik points you to, never in a public email or chat.
• Change your password right after the install is confirmed, so the temporary access ends.

Creating a dedicated Administrator user is still the safer option, so prefer it when you can.

Remove the access after install

Once Amabrik confirms the snippet is live, remove our access. You don’t owe us standing access to your site, and good security means revoking it the moment it’s no longer needed.

1. Go to Users > All Users.
2. Hover over the amabrik-install user and click Delete (on WordPress.com, open the user and choose Remove or Delete).
3. WordPress asks what to do with any content that user created. The Amabrik user won’t have authored posts, so Delete all content is fine. If WordPress offers it, you can attribute content to another user instead.
4. Confirm.

The snippet stays on your site; removing the user does not remove the install. From here, every widget change happens in your Amabrik dashboard, and we never need to touch your WordPress site again.

If you used the temporary-login fallback instead, just change that account’s password to end our access.

FAQ

Why a separate user instead of sharing my login?

You keep your own password private, you can see what the Amabrik user does, and you can remove the access in one click afterward. Sharing your main login gives away more than needed and is harder to undo.

Why does WordPress ask for an email?

WordPress requires an email for every user, and it sends the login details there. That’s why you use the address Amabrik confirmed: it’s where we receive access.

Which role should I pick?

Administrator. Adding the snippet needs the ability to add code and manage the site, which only the Administrator role allows.

Can I remove the user as soon as I create it?

Wait until Amabrik confirms the install is live. If you delete the user first, we lose access before we’ve finished. Remove it right after we confirm.

Will deleting the Amabrik user remove my widgets?

No. The snippet stays on your site, and your widgets are controlled from your Amabrik dashboard. Deleting the user only ends our access to your WordPress admin.

My host won’t let me add a user. What now?

Use the temporary-login fallback above, sharing the login through Amabrik’s secure channel, and change the password once the install is confirmed.