User Switching

1.7.3 (21 February 2024)

• Confirm support for PHP 8.3
• Fix compatibility with BuddyPress version 12
• Add configuration for the Live Preview feature on wordpress.org

1.7.2 (16 November 2023)

• Confirm support for WordPress 6.4
• Reinstate the missing plugin readme file

1.7.1 (16 November 2023)

• Fix the redirect type parameter passed to the user_switching_redirect_to filter
• Increase the minimum supported version of PHP to 7.4

1.7.0 (30 July 2022)

• Redirect to the current post, term, user, or comment being edited when switching off
• Clean up some user-facing messages
• Apply basic styling to the Switch Back link that appears in the footer
• Use a better placement for the Switch To menu on bbPress profiles
• Use a more appropriate HTTP response code if switching off fails
• Exclude .editorconfig from dist ZIP

1.6.0 (24 June 2022)

• Add a ‘Switch To’ link to the order screen in WooCommerce
• Add a ‘Switch back’ link to the My Account screen and the login screen in WooCommerce

1.5.8 (2 October 2021)

• Avoid a fatal if the interim-login query parameter is present on a page other than wp-login.php.

1.5.7 (12 May 2021)

• Fix some issues that could lead to PHP errors given a malformed cookie.
• Fix documentation.

1.5.6 (18 September 2020)

• Add a class to the table row on the user edit screen.
• Updated docs.

1.5.5 (22 June 2020)

• Added the user_switching_in_footer filter to disable output in footer on front end.
• Documentation additions and improvements.

1.5.4 (7 February 2020)

• Fix a cookie issue caused by Jetpack 8.1.1 which prevented switching back to the original user.

1.5.3 (5 November 2019)

• Remove usage of a method that’s been deprecated in WordPress 5.3

1.5.2 (16 August 2019)

• Set the correct lang attribute on User Switching’s admin notice.
• Move the WooCommerce session forgetting to an action callback so it can be unhooked if necessary.

1.5.1 (16 June 2019)

• Add appropriate HTTP response codes to the error states.
• Display User Switching’s messages in the original user’s locale.
• Increase the priority of the hook that sets up the cookie constants. See #40.
• Don’t attempt to output the ‘Switch To’ link on author archives when the queried object isn’t a user. See #39.

1.5.0 (23 March 2019)

• Add support for forgetting WooCommerce sessions when switching between users. Requires WooCommerce 3.6+.

1.4.2 (13 February 2019)

• Don’t attempt to add the Switch To link to the admin toolbar when viewing an author archive in the admin area. This prevents a fatal error occurring when filtering custom post type listing screens by authors in the admin area.

1.4.1 (2 February 2019)

• Add a Switch To link to the Edit User admin toolbar menu when viewing an author archive.
• Add a Switch back link to the Edit User admin toolbar menu when viewing an author archive and you’re already switched.

1.4.0 (17 September 2018)

• Add support for user session retention, reuse, and destruction when switching to and back from other user accounts.
• Add support for the switch_users meta capability for fine grained control over the ability to switch user accounts.
• More code and documentation quality improvements.

1.3.1 (24 May 2018)

• Add support for the X-Redirect-By header in WordPress 5.0.
• Allow User Switching’s admin notices to be dismissed.
• Introduce a privacy statement.

1.3.0 (9 November 2017)

• Update the BuddyPress compatibility.
• Various code and inline docs improvements.

1.2.0 (29 September 2017)

• Improve the Switch Back functionality when the interim login window is shown.
• Always show the Switch Back link in the Meta widget if it’s present.

1.1.0 (7 September 2017)

• Introduce a user_switching_switched_message filter to allow customisation of the message displayed to switched users in the admin area.
• Switch to safe redirects for extra paranoid hardening.
• Docblock improvements.
• Coding standards improvements.

1.0.9 (14 July 2016)

• Remove the bundled languages in favour of language packs from translate.wordpress.org.

1.0.8 (14 July 2016)

• Chinese (Taiwan) and Czech translations.
• Updated Dutch, Spanish, Hebrew, and German translations.
• Add an ID attribute to the links that User Switching outputs on the WordPress login screen, BuddyPress screens, and bbPress screens.
• Avoid a deprecated argument notice when the user-actions admin toolbar node has been removed.

1.0.7 (14 July 2016)

• Azerbaijani, Danish, and Bosnian translations.
• Add back the ‘User Switching’ heading on the user profile screen.
• Correct the value passed to the $old_user_id parameter of the switch_back_user hook when a user has been switched off. This should be boolean false rather than 0.
• Docblocks for actions and filters.
• More code standards tweaks.

1.0.6 (14 July 2016)

• Correct the values passed to the switch_back_user action when a user switches back.
• More code standards tweaks.

1.0.5 (14 July 2016)

• Norwegian translation by Per Søderlind.
• Code standards tweaks.

1.0.4 (14 July 2016)

• Support for the new logout_redirect and removable_query_args filters in WordPress 4.2.

1.0.3 (14 July 2016)

• Croation translation by Ante Sepic.
• Avoid PHP notices caused by other plugins which erroneously use boolean true as a capability.

1.0.2 (14 July 2016)

• Turkish translation by Abdullah Pazarbasi.
• Romanian translation by ArianServ.
• Dutch translation by Thom.
• Greek translation by evigiannakou.
• Bulgarian translation by Petya Raykovska.
• Finnish translation by Sami Keijonen.
• Italian translation by Alessandro Curci and Alessandro Tesoro.
• Updated Arabic, Spanish, German, and Polish translations.

1.0.1 (14 July 2016)

• Shorten the names of User Switching’s cookies to avoid problems with Suhosin’s over-zealous default rules.
• Add backwards compatibility for the deprecated OLDUSER_COOKIE constant.