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I’ve needed some help in the past for my wordpress website and went to fiverr. They all asked about login so they could access the backend. How do I trust them? They might as well hijack the website and blackmail me to pay. Is there anyway other way if you need temporary help?
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you can create the login account of your freelancer with limited access. however some tasks requires additional authorities. You can do that accordingly. If you need any professional access, I’d love to assist you
Yes, there is a very simple solution: you can create a staging site from your production site, give them admin access to that STAGING site, and when they finish, and you test that they successfully completed their task, delete their admin access and push all the changes to the production site.
Of course, some people would say that this person could put some backdoor code on that staging site and when you publish changes to production could take over your site, but in that case, as an extra step, you can back up your production site offsite (prior to pushing changes from the staging site), via 3rd party plugins such as All in one WP migration, Duplicator, etc.
Use a reputable freelancer. Ask for references, work samples etc. Do they have a public .org profile you can review? Code samples? Isn’t much different than hiring anyone really.
There is not much you can do here, even if the site was built another way. You need to hire someone you trust or can enter into an enforceable legal contract with.
As others have said, keep backups to mitigate the risk and give them access to a staging site. I will also recommend disabling editing of files from WordPress admin. This way they can’t directly add exploits to your theme/plugin files.
You can provide them access to the site from your computer using something like anydesk, teamviewer etc so you can view what they are doing and can always control what is done.