mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)

This plugin lets super admins quickly test other user roles, to see what other users experience.
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<li>Super admins get a Test User Role menu under the Howdy menu.</li>
<li>Roles being tested will be reset on user login or logout.</li>
</ul>
Warning: When a role is being tested, the user role in the database is actually modified. Note also that the <code>set_user_role</code> action is fired when going in and out of testing.
<a href="https://github.com/mitcho/test-user-role" rel="nofollow ugc">Contribute to development on GitHub.</a>

Test User Role

Great time saver for testing what other users have access to. Well done.
Thank you Mitcho!



Just what I needed

Quickly test other user roles from a super admin account, to see what other users experience.

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This plugin made it so easy to create accounts for coworkers who only need to do one or two tasks on a website and it's so easy to do. :) 

I love this plugin!

Use at your own risk as the plugin author @vasyltech never replies to support messages on here.

No support

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