View Admin As Versions Save

View the WordPress admin as a different role, switch between users, temporarily change your capabilities, set default screen settings for roles, manage your roles and capabilities.

1.7.6

6 years ago
  • Feature: Role manager: Option to migrate users to another role after deleting a role. #86
  • Enhancement: Enhance user full access validation for single installations. Not only check for super admin but also the capabilities edit_users and delete_plugins.
  • Enhancement: Add customizer support and a new setting to disable this. #26
  • Enhancement: Compatibility with $_SERVER['ORIG_REQUEST_URI'] for removable query args on front end. #87
  • UI: Support SVG and file icons + Base64 encoded strings.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7.5

6 years ago
  • Feature: Language switcher. #81
  • Enhancement: Store options network wide instead of per blog/site if network/multisite is enabled.
  • Enhancement: Action links (no-JS) on frontend.
  • Enhancement: Add filter view_admin_as_freeze_locale to overwrite user setting.
  • Fix: JavaScript init on frontend.
  • UI: Various minor enhancements.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7.4

6 years ago
  • Feature: Role defaults / Role manager: download export data as file + import from file. #73
  • Enhancement: Refresh page instead of redirect to home when switching to a site visitor on the frontend. #76
  • Enhancement: Role Manager: Refresh the page if a role is updated while active in the current view.
  • Enhancement: jQuery selector performance.
  • Compatibility: WP 4.9 capabilities.
  • Compatibility: WP Admin UI Customize admin bar editor. #40 & WAUC/#1 & WAUC/#2
  • Compatibility: Fix issue with Restrict User Access. RUA/#15
  • Compatibility: Fetch all capabilities from Yoast SEO (5.5+).
  • Compatibility: Must-use plugin loader scripts.
  • UI: The almighty View Admin As loader icon.
  • UI: Full opacity when semi-transparent group nodes are opened.
  • UI: Admin page links for Groups and Restrict User Access modules.
  • UI: Resizable checkbox wrappers.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7.3

6 years ago
  • Feature: Role Manager: Import/Export roles. #51 & PR #62
  • Feature/Enhancement: Option to disable super admin status when a view is active and modifies the current user. #53 & PR #61
  • Enhancement: Role Manager: Show custom capabilities that are not yet stored but used in an active caps view. #70
  • Enhancement: Prevent duplicate names when fetching capabilities from WP objects.
  • Enhancement: Allow this plugin to be installed as a must-use plugin. #71
  • Enhancement: Role Defaults: Enhance meta key comparison.
  • UI: Option tooltips. #67
  • UI: Enhance full popup caps view.
  • Refactoring: Fix base class name.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7.2

6 years ago
  • Feature: Integration with the "Groups" plugin. Introduces a new view type groups when this plugin is activated. #11
  • Fix: auto max height didn't work on frontend. #55
  • Fix: Role Manager used boolval() which is only available in PHP 5.5+. #63
  • Fix: view_admin_as_superior_admins filter was not working for single installations. #65
  • Compatibility: Allow other plugins to overwrite our user_has_cap filter by setting it's priority as first (large negative number). #56. Thanks to @pbiron for the report.
  • Compatibility: Run the user_has_cap filter in your map_meta_cap filter. #56
  • Compatibility: Add new network capabilities (WP 4.8) to the list. #64
  • Enhancement: Automatic JS handling for simple and more advanced options. #60
  • Enhancement: Role defaults: Rename all wildcard to __all__ to prevent a possible conflict with custom roles.
  • Enhancement: Role defaults: Add recording indicator icon to the top level node when a role view is active.
  • Refactoring: Move form logic to separate class and extend it (admin bar)

Detailed info: PR on GitHub & Groups integration PR on GitHub

1.7.1

7 years ago
  • Feature: Module Role Manager: Rename roles. #47
  • Enhancement: Improve fetching available capabilities for a super admin. It now also checks for registered custom post type and taxonomy capabilities and more other plugins.
  • Compatibility: Also use the user_has_cap filter besides map_meta_cap to further improve capability and role view compatibility.
  • UI: Add submenu scrollbar when there are too much users under a role. #49
  • UI: Module Role Manager: Show original role name for reference.
  • Accessibility: Fix tabindex for some nodes that have form elements.
  • Updated: Screenshots.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7

7 years ago
  • Feature: New module Role manager. Add, edit and/or remove roles and grant or deny them capabilities. #43
  • Feature: Module Role Defaults: Added the option to copy defaults from one role to another (or multiple). #44
  • Enhancement/UI: Enable and Improve responsive styles/a11y. #16
  • Enhancement/UI: Improved the autoHeight calculation (submenu and popup).
  • Enhancement: View combinations now working in code (No UI). #18
  • Enhancement: Major code refactoring for better standards en easier development.
  • Maintenance: Validated compatibility with "Restrict User Access" (RUA) plugin v0.14. #31
  • Compatibility: Tested with WordPress 4.8 (alpha) and requires WordPress 4.1 or higher (was 3.5).
  • Fix: Fixed all major CodeClimate issues. All green now!
  • Wiki (documentation) updated.
  • Screenshots & Banners updated.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.6.4

7 years ago
  • Feature: Integration with the "Restrict User Access" (RUA) plugin. Introduces a new view type "access levels" when this plugin is activated. #31
  • Enhancement: Improve compatibility with plugins that use the current user object. Related: #32
  • Enhancement: Improve compatibility with plugins that use the role objects.
  • Enhancement: Redirect to homepage when selecting the visitor view.
  • Enhancement: Integrate with the capability groups in plugin "User Role Editor".
  • Fix: Started to use CodeClimate for style checks + applied fixes. #37

Detailed info: PR on GitHub & RUA integration PR on GitHub

1.6.3

7 years ago
  • Feature: Meta sync manager UI for the role defaults module #28
  • Feature: Multiple import methods for the role defaults module #27
  • Enhancement: Also update the current user object's capabilities and roles to improve support for other plugins #32
  • Other minor improvements

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.6.2

7 years ago
  • Feature: A new view! You can now see your site as an unregistered visitor (no need to switch browsers) #14
  • Enhancement: Reduced queries for getting the available users to 1! Performance improvement to the native WP function get_users() (with fallback if needed) #24
  • Enhancement: Add all existing roles that have defaults to the clear list even if they have been removed from WP #22
  • Enhancement: Enable the current view as a capability filter
  • Enhancement: Highlight the view capabilities in the capability menu
  • Enhancement: Pass view data as JSON (enhances compatibility with weird capability identifiers since WP doesn't escape these so it could contain special characters)
  • Enhancement/Fix: Compatibility with the editable_roles filter for non super admins
  • Fix: Hide our toolbar in the customizer preview. Switching in the WP Customizer not possible (yet)
  • Fix: Improve capability view handling
  • Other minor improvements

Detailed info: PR on GitHub