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View Admin As

v1.8.10
by Jory Hogeveen · 4.9 (48 reviews)

View the WordPress admin as a different role or visitor, switch between users, temporarily change your capabilities, set screen settings for roles.

9K+ active installs Updated Nov 23, 2024 Tested to 6.7.2 Requires PHP 5.2.4
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View Admin As

About View Admin As

The View Admin As plugin allows you to easily switch between user accounts, roles, and capabilities in the WordPress admin without the need to log in as a different user. You can also change user preferences and screen settings for different users. The plugin is secure and compatible with various other plugins and themes.

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Changelog

1.8.10

  • Compatibility: Move label initialization to fix _load_textdomain_just_in_time notice since WP 6.7.
  • Fix: Clear view in current session when resetting manually.
  • Fix: URE Integration: Fix the level at which the View Admin As group appears. #135 (credits @pbiron)
  • Tests: Fix unit tests.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.8.9

  • Fix: Event bubbling for select elements #130
  • Fix: Check if removable query args exists before adding removal script on front-end

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.8.8

  • Enhancement: RTL support. #122
  • Enhancement: User context for checking the edit_user capability.
  • Enhancement: Enhance front-end CSS by preventing theme overrides. #120
  • Enhancement/Fix: JSON/REST call checks.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.8.7

  • Enhancement: Added hooks vaa_view_admin_as_reset_all_views, vaa_view_admin_as_cleanup_views, vaa_view_admin_as_reset_view, vaa_view_admin_as_update_view.
  • Enhancement/Compatibility: Fix compatibility issue with MetaSlider block preview (JSON/AJAX requests) #117
  • Compatibility: Fixed issues with capability filters overwriting available capabilities.
  • Compatibility: Remove redundant canonical tag. #119
  • Compatibility: WordPress 5.7 UI.
  • Fixed: Missing textdomain parameter.
  • Refactor: Added action logs.
  • Refactor: Enhance view type classes.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.8.6

  • Compatibility: WordPress 5.4 apply_shortcodes() function. #111
  • Compatibility: Add Google Site Kit capabilities. #110
  • Compatibility: User Role Editor capability filter format. #112
  • Enhancement: Always show force-ajax-users setting to optionally prevent query.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.8.5

  • Compatibility: CSS compatibility for WP 5.3
  • Compatibility: Roles are now translated in all cases since WP 5.2.
  • Enhancement: JS performance.
  • Enhancement: Enhance AJAX checks.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.8.4

  • Enhancement: Role Manager: Reload when in a user view and the user’s role has been modified. #105
  • Compatibility: WordPress 5.2 admin bar arrow icon update. WP Core #37513
  • Compatibility: Dark Mode (Github)
  • Fix: Role Defaults: Only return screen setting overwrite if found. #104
  • API: Added API method is_view_active(). (Documentation)

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.8.3

  • Compatibility: Users always have the exists capability. Go to issue
  • Compatibility: WordPress 4.9.6 privacy capabilities.
  • API: Added several API methods & enhancements.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.8.2

  • Enhancement/Fix: Support AJAX search in the Role Defaults module. #100
  • Enhancement: Add support for X-Redirect-By header since WordPress 5.0. #42313
  • Enhancement: Improve uninstall script.
  • Enhancement: Use latest WPCS v1.1 update and fix code standard notices.
  • UI: Change the default top level node text to “View As” (same as Facebook uses).
  • Updated: Screenshots

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.8.1

  • Feature: Support searching users by multiple user columns like email, url, etc. #95
  • Feature: User setting to force AJAX search for users. #96
  • Feature: New filter: view_admin_as_user_ajax_search to force AJAX search for user at all times.
  • Fix: Prevent “form changed” popup which showed in various pages. #93
  • Enhancement: Improve Pods Framework compatibility when in a view.
  • Enhancement: Improve getting view data on load.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.8

  • Feature: View combinations UI. #18
  • Feature/Enhancement: Limit user query to max 100 users for performance. Switch to AJAX search if there are more users than this limit. #19
  • Accessibility: New filter: view_admin_as_user_query_limit to change the limit used to query users.
  • Accessibility: New filters: vaa_admin_bar_view_title_role & vaa_admin_bar_view_title_user & vaa_admin_bar_view_title_locale to change the titles for role, users and languages.
  • Accessibility: New filter: vaa_admin_bar_view_title_user_show_roles to remove the roles from user nodes.
  • Accessibility: New filter: view_admin_as_full_access_capabilities for single site installations to change the capabilities required to gain full access to this plugin.
  • Enhancement: Use a class autoloader.
  • Enhancement: Stop using the rel attribute for view type data.
  • Enhancement: Access validation logic.
  • Compatibility: Patch Yoast SEO compatibility. Yoast SEO #9365
  • Refactoring: Action/Filter hook manager class. #77
  • Refactoring: Refactor all view types as separate modules. #84
  • Fix: Use prop instead of attr for checked attributes in checkbox inputs.
  • Updated/Added: Screenshots.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

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