View Admin As

The ultimate User switcher and Role manager

This plugin will add a menu item to your admin bar where you can change your view in the WordPress admin.
Switch to other users without the need to login as that user or even switch roles and temporarily change your own capabilities.

When you’re viewing as a different user, you can also change this user’s preferences; like screen settings on various admin pages.

With the “Role defaults” module you can set default screen settings and metabox locations for roles and apply them to users through various bulk actions.

It also features a “Role manager” module to add, edit or remove roles and grant or deny them capabilities.

Overview / Features

• Switch between user accounts
  • Edit this user’s screen preferences and settings

  Module: Role defaults (screen settings)

  • Set default screen settings for roles
  • Apply defaults to a user
  • Apply defaults to all users of a role
  • Apply defaults when registering a new user (in a multisite this is done when a user is added to its first blog)
  • Copy defaults from one role to another (or multiple)
  • Import/Export role defaults, can also download (and upload) setting files
  • Disable the “screen settings” option and/or lock the meta boxes for all users that don’t have access to this plugin

  Module: Role manager (role editor)

  Note: Changes made with the Role Manager are permanent!

  • Add, edit or delete roles
  • Grant and/or add capabilities to roles
  • Rename roles
  • Clone roles
  • Import/Export roles, can also download (and upload) setting files
  • Update role capabilities from current view
  • Automatically migrate users to another role after deleting a role

  Compatibility & Integrations

  This plugin will work with most other plugins but these are tested:

  • Advanced Access Manager (Pro version not verified)
  • bbPress
  • BuddyPress
  • Genesis Framework (and probably other theme frameworks)
  • Google Site Kit
  • Gravity Forms
  • Groups 2.1+ (Custom integration: adds a view type for groups. Pro version not tested)
  • Pods Framework 2.0+
  • Members
  • Restrict User Access 0.13+ (Custom integration: adds a view type for access levels)
  • User Roles and Capabilities
  • User Role Editor (Pro version not verified)
  • User Switching (Not sure why you’d want this but yes, switch-ception is possible!)
  • WPFront User Role Editor
  • WP Admin UI Customize 1.5.11+
  • Yoast SEO

  Full list of tested plugins and details: Compatibility & Integrations

  Read the full description on the official page →