Title: Imposter
Author: Damian Gostomski
Published: <strong>February 27, 2012</strong>
Last modified: February 27, 2012

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/imposter.svg)

# Imposter

 By [Damian Gostomski](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gostomski/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/imposter.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/imposter/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/imposter/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/imposter/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/imposter/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imposter/)

## Description

The Imposter plugin allows site administrators to take on the role of another user.
This is useful for development and testing purposes, as well as the ability to troubleshoot
user issues without needing the user password.

It will add a link for each user in the users list, which will log the administrator
as that user. They’re then logged in as that user and are no longer an administrator,
until they logout of the user session, at which point they’re logged back in as 
themselves.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `imposter` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. That’s it!

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/22e1719ea0db8e001a49c48ac749881b2ffaa629ede8531865386fc4ac91075a?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Still Works](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-works-66/)󠁿

 [wallee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wallee/) September 3, 2016

Still works for me, despite the fact that I’ve gone thru 10 wordpress updates since
I first installed! Goes to show how well coded it is, despite that it is no longer
maintained. Too bad all plugins can’t be this good.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imposter/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Imposter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Damian Gostomski ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gostomski/)

[Translate “Imposter” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/imposter)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/imposter/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/imposter/), or subscribe 
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/imposter/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/imposter/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.3.2**
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[authentication](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/authentication/)
   [user](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/imposter/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.3 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imposter/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imposter/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imposter/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imposter/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imposter/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imposter/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imposter/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Damian Gostomski ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gostomski/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/imposter/)