Browse As

After developing this plugin, I discovered the plugin User Switching by John Blackbourn which does the same thing, and more, and is very well coded. I would recommend using it instead.

Simple and secure way to allow your site administrators, editors and other roles with the ‘edit_users’ capability to browse the site as a user they can edit. Install the plugin, go to the users list in the admin, click on the link next a user name and you can browse the site as that user. You don’t need to know the user’s password!

Features

• Browse your site as another user than yours.

For feature request and bug reports, please use the forums.

For an automatic installation through WordPress:

1. Go to the ‘Add New’ plugins screen in your WordPress admin area
2. Search for ‘Browse As’
3. Click ‘Install Now’ and activate the plugin
4. Go to the users list in the admin area

Or use a nifty tool by WordPress lead developer Mark Jaquith:

1. Visit this link and follow the instructions.

For a manual installation via FTP:

1. Upload the browse-as directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in your WordPress admin area
3. Go to the users list in the admin area

To upload the plugin through WordPress, instead of FTP:

1. Upload the downloaded zip file on the ‘Add New’ plugins screen (see the ‘Upload’ tab) in your WordPress admin area and activate.
2. Go to the users list in the admin area

How to use?

Go to the users list in the admin, click on the ‘Browse As’ link next a user name and you can browse the site as that user. You don’t need to know the user’s password.

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   Browse As link

2. 

   Notice in admin

3. 

   Notice on fronted

0.2

• Typos fixes. Recommendation for the plugin User Switching.

0.1

• First release.