Extends the excellent User Switching plugin by John Blackbourn by adding a User Switching to the admin bar for quick and easy user switching.
As of April 2026, Admin Bar User Switching is a WordPress users plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 49K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 60% this week. Top alternative: User Switching.
This plugin was originally developed by Mark Wilkinson.
An admin bar “Switch to User” option is provided which on hover provides a search box where you can query a user to switch to. The results are links to switch to that user. This plugin is great for when you are building sites for clients and it is beneficial to see the site as your logged in client see’s it.
And there is an optional mode where you can use a custom keyboard combination, say ‘su’, and it activates the form where you search for users, and then you can use keyboard arrows to navigate the list of results, and the return key to switch to the selected user. The same combo can be used to focus the ‘Switch Off’ link, following a return to simulate a click.
To activate this feature and set the cus…
It is easy to switch back from a switched to account, not so easy to switch away as a user list is not displayed, you have to search first. Ideally I’d have an option to choose the accounts and have a button for each.
10nx very so much
Fast fixing of errors 🙂
Plug-In works like it should
Чувак! Ты сделал идеально работающую вещь! :)))
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Uninstalled it right away, but could be a good thing with some tweaks.
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 6.0.11 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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