shooflydesign

<p>This plugin can override the Authors metabox on the post add/edit screen, letting users who can edit other people’s posts, reassign a post to others user on the site.</p>
<p>This is especially useful in situations where you’ve created custom user roles that WordPress doesn’t recognize as Authors.  If you want to allow your content editors and administrators to assign new or existing content to anyone, you’ll (hopefully) like this plugin very much indeed.</p>
<p>On WordPress 5.0, the metabox will appear below the main block editor (see screenshot).  I will be supporting updates to the Status & Visibility box as soon as possible.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how far back this plugin will work, I’m saying it requires 3.5 or greater — it was originally developed using WordPress 4.1.</p>
<p>(Inspired by <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18645" rel="nofollow ugc">this trac ticket</a>)</p>


Better Author Metabox

Lets you safely override the built-in Author metabox with one that includes more users.

sant0sk1

<p>As an administrator of a WordPress site with many users, it is often useful to login to a user’s account to troubleshoot something. Asking for their password is tacky and having to reset it is amateurish. Thankfully, you don’t have to do either when you’re armed with this plugin. You can login to the site with any user’s account by providing admin username followed by a “+” followed by their username and your administrative password. All other user authentication is passed on to WordPress core. Handy, huh?</p>
<p>To login as user joeblow you’d provide:</p>
<pre><code>Username = admin+joeblow
Password = [the admin's password]
</code></pre>
<h4>New In This Version</h4>
<ol>
<li>WordPress 2.9 compatibility</li>
</ol>
<h3>Contributors</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://pixelgraphics.us/" rel="nofollow ugc">Doug Neiner</a></li>
</ul>


Skeleton Key

Gives administrators a skeleton key (their own password) to login as any user they'd like.

Better Author Metabox vs Skeleton Key