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One Time Login

by Daniel Bachhuber · Login & Users

Also makes 8 other plugins · 51.3K+ installs across the portfolio →

Use WP-CLI to generate a one-time login URL for any user

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
77 Health · B
Maintenance 81/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

77 health vs 59 average across 1,440 Login & Users plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

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75 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 91/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 52/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+13% vs prior 30d
57Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

2.9K

now · peak 16.9K

3K30d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

One Time Login · #864 you WPS Hide Login · #27 Loginizer · #45 Security Optimizer · #51

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

74per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

1

releases in the last 12 months

8mo ago

latest release · v0.4.0

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.4.0 · 8mo ago0.3.1 · 5.2y ago0.3.0 · 6.3y ago0.2.0 · 8.3y ago0.1.2 · 9.6y ago0.1.1 · 10.3y ago0.1.0 · 10.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 96% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.4 96%
Older / other versions 4.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “40K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
40K–50K ≈46K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2016-09-08 · 1,437 observations

40KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price.

Details

Version
0.4.0
Last updated
8mo ago
Added
2016-04-28 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.4
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP
7.1

Recent reviews

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  1. semseysandor
    3.8y ago

    Just what I need in a CD pipeline to deploy WordPress. Works great with WordPress v6.0.3 too.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. noahbalboah
    9.8y ago

    This is super awesome and will be helpful managing customers sites.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 0.4.0 Introduces one-time-login/v1/token WP REST API endpoint to generate tokens [ #28 ]. 0.4.0
  2. Version 0.3.1 Fires one_time_login_after_auth_cookie_set action after the auth cookie is set [ #27 ]. 0.3.1
  3. Version 0.3.0 Introduces --delay-delete flag to delete old tokens after 15 minutes instead of immediately. Improves invalid token message when user is already logged in: “Invalid one-time login token, but you are logged in as ‘user_lo 0.3.0
  4. Version 0.2.0 Introduces support for multiple one-time login links. Links to the login screen from the “Invalid token” error message. 0.2.0
  5. Version 0.1.2 Fires one_time_login_created action when login URL is created, and one_time_login_logged_in action when user is logged in via one-time login URL. 0.1.2
  6. Version 0.1.1 Bug fix: Pass $assoc_args into the command to ensure the --porcelain flag actually works. 0.1.1

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.2.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-02-04 30K+ → 40K+ up after 177 days in tier
  2. 2025-08-11 40K+ → 30K+ down after 37 days in tier
  3. 2025-07-05 30K+ → 40K+ up after 599 days in tier
  4. 2023-11-14 20K+ → 30K+ up after 333 days in tier
  5. 2022-12-16 10K+ → 20K+ up

Competes with

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