Want to send one-click access links to your site to users through email, WhatsApp, SMS or another way? The Direct Login add-on from ARMember will help with this task. If you often deal with onboarding a new client, helping a member who forgot their password, or giving someone temporary access to a private area – your membership site and management routine need this solution!
In this article, we’re explaining when and how to use it on your WordPress membership site.
TL;DR: ARMember’s Direct Login add-on lets site owners create temporary personalized login links that gives members on-click access without entering a username or password. You can create links for new or existing users, set an expiration time and manage each link from your WordPress Dashboard.
What Is Direct Login?
But let’s clarify the goal of this solution first. Direct login helps you create a temporary login link that signs-in members into your membership site – no need to ask them to enter a username or password.
A direct link is a temporary and safe URL – each one is tied to a specific user and can be set to expire after a chosen number of hours or even days.
We’ve created this solution with many real needs that different membership sites have – online communities, courses, client portals, and other sites where your members regularly need to access private content.
You’re being proactive here – you are not asking them to find their login details, reset a forgotten password, or go through the login form. A simple one-access link will get them there without those well-known troubles!
In Which Cases Can You Use Direct Login for Your Business?
When someone needs access now and you don’t want to burden them with the usual login process (or need to really quickly provide an offer, demo, or admin walkthrough), then consider using this extension.
With the Direct Login option, you give a specific person quick access. What can you do exactly? For example:
- Send a direct login link to a client in a messenger.
- Email a link to a member who needs quick access to their account.
- Give a new client access after manually creating their account, without the regular login process.
- Demo or onboarding session? Give temporary access.
- Help a customer who forgot their password.
- Give temporary access to a particular person for a limited period.
For example, many membership sites need to give a customer access to a special resource for 24 hours (workshop, downloadable materials, or a preview of a premium area). A direct link saves a ton of time here. Or, if you have a portal with documents, when a client asks for quick access to a document, you may send a temporary login link and be sure that no one else can access the site.
What Are the Extra Benefits and Features of the Direct Login Add-on from ARMember?
The Direct Login add-on for ARMember is more than just a shortcut to the login page. It’s full control over the temporary login links you create.
Create links for new or existing members: This is why the add-on perfectly serves different use cases. You can create a direct login for an existing ARMember user, or create a new user while generating the link – so that it can be anything from an online course link to a demo link. For a new user, you provide their email address and select their WordPress user role based on the kind of access you want to give them.
Set an expiration time: The add-on lets you decide how long each link remains valid, using hours or days (you don’t have to leave a permanent passwordless login link active!). You can also modify the expiration period later.
Activate, deactivate, or delete links: The Direct Login menu is where you copy an automatically generated link, change its expiration, activate or deactivate it, and delete it. So you can manage the links you’ve created from one place on your WordPress.
Choose a WP user role: Choose a WP user role: When creating a new user, you can select their WordPress user role, such as Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, or another available role (sourced from your other plugins, related to content as well).
When choosing a role, you’re actually confirming what that user is allowed to do on your WordPress site. You wouldn’t want to give a client an Editor role if they only need to access member content.
Are these only personalized links? Can you automate them to everyone? Individual, because you can’t automatically generate and insert a unique Direct Login link into ARMember’s automated emails or send links to users in bulk. For automated email workflows, ARMember generates normal login links. And for such specific cases, direct auto-login saves you as a site admin or manager in many cases.
How to Set Up a Direct Login Link with ARMember
You only need to connect an add-on that works with any ARMember plan. Setting it up only takes a few steps.
1. Install And Activate The Add-On
First, download the add-on from your account and then Install the Direct Login on your WP. Once activated from your WordPress dashboard, you need to click ‘Configure’.
2. Open Direct Login
Head over to ARMember → Direct Login (on your WP site). You’ll see a list of the direct login links you’ve created.
3. Click “Add Direct Login”
Choose Add Direct Login to create a new link.
4. Choose The User
Select the option based on whether it’s a user already in your database:
- New user (enter the user’s email address and select their WordPress user role).
- Existing users (you may simply select them from the list).
5. Set The Expiration
For how long the direct login link should remain valid? You can select a certain number of hours or days.
6. Save and Copy The Link
Click Save, then use the Copy Link option to copy the unique direct login URL.
Now, you can use any contact channel to send it to your client / future member!
Your member (or future member) uses that link to access the site manually without any credentials at all. The link remains available only for the period you specified. They will see the content according to their chosen user role.
Concluding: When to Use Direct Login Add-on for One-Click Access with ARMember?
To sum up, the Direct Login functionality from ARMember has nothing to do with your regular login system. It’s not a simplified authentication system for every visitor.
But you can safely use it for temporary, individually created links!
You as a site owner can create and manage those links personally with members, which is, you don’t simply enable a setting that lets anyone log in through a link.
Use the free add-on from ARMember to remove a few extra login steps for customers or prospects. For example, when you need to give a client quick access, help a member who is having trouble logging in, or provide temporary access for a specific purpose.
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