Comments on: WordPress Plugin: User Switching

By: john

john — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:47:30 +0000

Hi,
I’m having problems with you plugins. I used it in the past and it worked quite well. But these days, I am mananging a rather big site with WP 3.0, and a lot of plugins. I can switch to another user but I CANNOT SWITCH BACK to my admin status. Doesn’t work. I have to log out and relog as admin.

Any idea ?

By: phil

phil — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:10:12 +0000

Thanks. Really like the work you’re doing.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:20:19 +0000

Phil: I used the Audit Trail plugin once ages ago, but not recently. It’s probably easy enough to add an audit trail item that logs when a user switches users (I’ll have a look at it at some point), but from then on any action will always be recorded as the user that has been switched to.

By: phil

phil — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:44:31 +0000

Any plans of incorporating an audit trail? If using the audit trail plugin, what user’s info will be trapped making the change, the admin or the user’s?

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:20:26 +0000

very good for buddy press sites!

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:18:17 +0000

0.2.2 is out:
* Respect the current ‘Remember me’ setting when switching users.
* Redirect to home page instead of admin screen if the user you’re switching to has no privileges.

By: scribu

scribu — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:13:46 +0000

Hey, I guess I never got around to thanking you the fantastic bit of functionality that this plugin offers.

I use it both on regular WP installs, as well as on MU setups and it works great.

Thanks again!

By: wparena

wparena — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:34:18 +0000

I have found this plugin to be virtually indispensable for theme development, included this plugin in my article

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:07:57 +0000

Thanks Patung, I’ll look into it.

By: Patung

Patung — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:20:56 +0000

It doesn’t work with wordpress 2.9 i think, when switching to another use you get taken to the login page…

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:56:17 +0000

John: Thanks for the suggestion. The idea already crossed my mind when I read about Justin’s plugin. I’ve not had a chance to test it out yet.

The main reason I’ve not added the custom capability option to User Switching yet is that it requires a bit more thought. For example, if a lower level user has the ‘switch_users’ capability, they would need a screen in the admin area from which they could switch users from, as only Administrators by default have access to the Users menu.

In addition, should these lower level users with the switch_users capability be allowed to switch to any other account regardless of its role? Or should, for example, an Editor only be allowed to switch to other Editor accounts and lower accounts?

I’ll give it a bit more thought and see what I come up with.

By: John Myrstad

John Myrstad — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:57:54 +0000

A custom capability (eg. ’switch_users’) which can be granted to lower level users so they can switch accounts.

It would be cool if the plugin could play nice with Justin Tadlocks new capability plugin ( Members ).

Tadlocks Members plugin ( beta ) has a filter hook on the available caps (see functions-admin.php) if you want to integrate User Swithing specific capabilities.

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/07/beta-test-my-upcoming-user-role-and-content-management-plugin
http://justintadlock.com/downloads/members.zip

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:53:59 +0000

Andy: I haven’t given much thought to the custom capability as I’ve not come across a need for it yet. Using a plugin such as Role Scoper or Role Manager I’m sure it would be easy to grant certain users a custom capability of ‘switch_users’. It would then simply be a case of changing the references to ‘edit_user’ in the User Switching plugin to ‘switch_users’.

Give me a shout if you have any problems and I’ll see about adding it natively to the plugin.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:10:09 +0000

Hi John

This plugin looks great but I woudl really like the follwoing functionality you have listed under your to do list here:

“A custom capability (eg. ’switch_users’) which can be granted to lower level users so they can switch accounts.”

Any ideas when you might do this?

I am currently trying to hack your code to implement this exact functionality on a WordPress MU / BuddyPress site so if you wanted to work toegether on this then drop me a mail.

By: sunday

sunday — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:29:39 +0000

This plugin is simple and cool, i love it!!! Thanks for your efforts

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:00:55 +0000

Hi Federico. The only change in 0.2.1 is to prevent the “Switch back to…” message showing up when it shouldn’t. You do not need to update to this version if you don’t want to.

John.

By: Federico

Federico — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:32:44 +0000

I need to know before the update….

By: Federico

Federico — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:30:44 +0000

What are the changes in the 0.2.1 ?

thanks
Federico

By: LumpySimon

LumpySimon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:05:35 +0000

Nice one bro!

Now I can switch back again I’d say this is a pretty invaluable plugin. No more sitting there with Firefox and (ugh) IE open at the same time…

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:48:37 +0000

Version 0.2 released, adding the ability to securely switch back to the administrator account you originally switched from. Good times.