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Admin Bar User Switching

Extends the excellent User Switching plugin by John Blackbourn by adding a User Switching to the admin bar for quick and easy user switching.

By Saad Iqbal·Users·Free
4.8(12 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 years ago
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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.

4.8/512 reviews
2.0K+active installs
49K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

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…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.812 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Switching Back Easy, Switching To Harder than need be
by Dennis Bareis·1 year ago

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.

Good job!
by neon67·3 years ago

10nx very so much

Good Support
by SimpleRick·4 years ago

Fast fixing of errors 🙂
Plug-In works like it should

Идеальный плагин
by Сергей·5 years ago

Чувак! Ты сделал идеально работающую вещь! :)))

Could be better
by lucasbustamante·7 years ago·2 replies

Suggestions:

  • Option to show dropdown instead of text input (from personal experience, most of the time site only have 2~3 users)
  • Dropdown is loosing focus when trying to click on it, it’s kinda annoying

Uninstalled it right away, but could be a good thing with some tweaks.

  • This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by lucasbustamante.

Download Trends

Today: 5Yesterday: 6This week: 38Period total: 2K

Compatibility

WordPress3.1+ requiredTested up to 6.0.11
PHP5.6+ required

Version Adoption

v1.4
89.5%
v1.1
6.2%
Other
4.3%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.4 – 2021-17-12

  • Fixed – Fixed Undefined Variable $port.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
1.4
Last Updated
May 24, 2022
WP Requires
3.1+
Tested Up To
6.0.11
PHP Requires
5.6+
Active Installs
2.0K+
Downloads
49K+
Added
Nov 27, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

usersuser switching

Developer

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Saad Iqbal
88 plugins1.4M+ total installs
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