Autologin

Auto-login lets your team open a connected WordPress site from Atarim and arrive already signed in. The plugin puts the benefit plainly: no more sharing passwords within the team, and one click to log in and land on any task across your fleet of websites.

It is the difference between “here’s the staging login, the password’s in the shared doc” and simply opening the project.

How it works

The mechanism is worth understanding, because it explains the one thing that surprises people: everyone arrives as the same WordPress user.

Turning auto-login on

Auto-login is configured on the WordPress site itself, not from the Atarim dashboard, and it has two parts — marking the account, then selecting it in the plugin. You will need WordPress administrator access to do either.

Step 1 — Mark the account as webmaster

The account that connected the site is marked automatically. You only need this step if you are switching auto-login to a different account.

1. Log in to the WordPress site and go to Users in the left sidebar.
2. Open the account you want auto-login to use.
3. Scroll to Custom User Settings. This section is only visible to WordPress administrators.
4. Tick Make this user webmaster under the Webmaster heading.
5. Select Update Profile.

Step 2 — Select the account in the plugin

This is the setting auto-login actually reads when it signs someone in.

1. In WordPress, go to Settings → Collaborate to open the Atarim plugin settings.
2. Find the field labelled 1 click login from Atarim as. Its tooltip explains the purpose: no more sharing passwords within the team, and one click to log in and reach any task across your sites.
3. Open the selector, which reads — Select a user — until you choose. It lists accounts by name and email — but only those holding a role listed under Who can collaborate in the same settings screen, which is administrators and editors by default.
4. Choose the account your team should arrive as.
5. Switch on Enable Auto Login.
6. Select Save & Apply. Atarim will now use that account whenever someone opens the site through one-click login.

Two ways in

There is no separate auto-login button to find. Once it is switched on, it applies whenever you open the site from Atarim — and there are two routes, depending on whether you are starting from a project or from a task.

From the Projects screen

Use this when you want to work on a site generally rather than on one specific piece of feedback.

1. Go to Projects in the Atarim dashboard and find the connected site.
2. Select Collaborate on its card. Its tooltip reads Visually collaborate on this project. The site opens with the Atarim toolbar and you are already signed in to WordPress — the admin bar confirms it.
3. Work as normal, including moving into the WordPress admin area.

From a task in your Inbox

This is the more useful route day to day. It takes you to the exact page the feedback was left on, signed in and ready to fix it.

1. Open Inbox and find a task on a connected WordPress site.
2. Select Go To Task.
3. Atarim opens the site at the page the task belongs to, with the task in view and you already signed in.

Who gets signed in

Not everyone who opens a project receives the token, and that distinction is the point of the feature.

Known limitations

Where auto-login stops:

1. WordPress plugin sites only. Projects added by URL cannot use auto-login.
2. One account per site. Everyone arrives as the same nominated user, so WordPress cannot tell your team members apart.
3. It is set up per site. There is no way to enable it across your whole fleet at once.
4. It requires WordPress administrator access on the site to configure.
5. The selectable accounts follow the Who can collaborate roles, which default to administrators and editors.
6. Site security tools can block it, since it signs the browser in through WordPress itself.
7. It stops working if the nominated account is removed or disabled in WordPress.

FAQs

Common issues

• You arrive at the site not signed in. Check three things in the plugin: the site is still connected, a user is selected under the one-click login option, and Enable Auto Login is on and saved.
• The setting is missing from the plugin. Update the Atarim plugin to its current version, and confirm you are a WordPress administrator on that site.
• It works for you but not a colleague. Check their role in Atarim. Collaborators do not receive the token by design.
• It stopped working suddenly. Confirm the nominated WordPress account still exists and is still active. Removing or disabling it stops auto-login.
• You are signed in as the wrong person. You are seeing the account nominated in the plugin settings. Change it there if it is not the one you want.
• It signed you in when you did not want it to. Sign in to the site yourself first — an existing session is always left alone.
• You are signed in but hit permission errors. The nominated account does not have the WordPress capabilities the work needs. Choose a higher-privileged account, or raise that account’s role.
• The account you want is not in the dropdown. The list follows the Who can collaborate roles, which default to administrators and editors. Add the role there, or use an account that already holds one.
• An account disappeared from the dropdown. Its role was probably removed from Who can collaborate. Check that setting before assuming the account changed.
• It fails on a site with security plugins. Firewalls and login-hardening plugins can block it. Check whether anything is restricting programmatic logins or stripping query parameters.
• The address looks unusual for a moment. Expected. The token is stripped from the URL immediately after use and the page reloads clean.

Conclusion

Auto-login removes a small daily friction that adds up quickly across a fleet of sites, and it removes a genuinely bad habit with it — passwords sitting in shared documents. Set it up per site, nominate a purpose-made account rather than a person’s own, and opening a client’s site stops being a two-minute detour.

Auto-login is one of several things the WordPress plugin unlocks.

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