{"id":14726,"date":"2011-09-02T07:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T07:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/browse-as\/"},"modified":"2011-09-04T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T12:42:28","slug":"browse-as","status":"closed","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/browse-as\/","author":1138884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"version":"0.2","stable_tag":"0.2","tested":"3.2.1","requires":"3.1","requires_php":"","requires_plugins":"","header_name":"Browse As","header_author":"PubPoet","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2011-09-04 12:42:28","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"","header_plugin_uri":"http:\/\/pubpoet.com\/plugins\/","header_author_uri":"http:\/\/pubpoet.com\/","rating":0,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":10,"downloads":2595,"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","faq","changelog"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":{"0.2":"<p>I recommend using the plugin User Switching instead.<\/p>","0.1":"<p>First release.<\/p>"},"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":0},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":["0.1","0.2"],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":{"screenshot-2.png":{"filename":"screenshot-2.png","revision":"1539226","resolution":"2","location":"plugin"},"screenshot-3.png":{"filename":"screenshot-3.png","revision":"1539226","resolution":"3","location":"plugin"},"screenshot-1.png":{"filename":"screenshot-1.png","revision":"1539226","resolution":"1","location":"plugin"}},"screenshots":{"1":"Browse As link","2":"Notice in admin","3":"Notice on fronted"}},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[83,14294,14295],"plugin_category":[],"plugin_contributors":[79105],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-14726","plugin","type-plugin","status-closed","hentry","plugin_tags-admin","plugin_tags-browse-as","plugin_tags-login-as","plugin_contributors-sorich87","plugin_committers-sorich87"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/browse-as.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[{"src":"https:\/\/ps.w.org\/browse-as\/trunk\/screenshot-1.png?rev=1539226","caption":"Browse As link"},{"src":"https:\/\/ps.w.org\/browse-as\/trunk\/screenshot-2.png?rev=1539226","caption":"Notice in admin"},{"src":"https:\/\/ps.w.org\/browse-as\/trunk\/screenshot-3.png?rev=1539226","caption":"Notice on fronted"}],"raw_content":"<!--section=description-->\n<p><strong>After developing this plugin, I discovered the plugin <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/user-switching\/\">User Switching<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/users\/johnbillion\/\">John Blackbourn<\/a> which does the same thing, and more, and is very well coded. I would recommend using it instead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Simple and secure way to allow your site administrators, editors and other roles with the 'edit_users' capability to browse the site as a user they can edit. Install the plugin, go to the users list in the admin, click on the link next a user name and you can browse the site as that user. You don't need to know the user's password!<\/p>\n\n<h4>Features<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Browse your site as another user than yours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>For feature request and bug reports, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/tags\/browse-as?forum_id=10#postform\">please use the forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<p>For an automatic installation through WordPress:<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Go to the 'Add New' plugins screen in your WordPress admin area<\/li>\n<li>Search for 'Browse As'<\/li>\n<li>Click 'Install Now' and activate the plugin<\/li>\n<li>Go to the users list in the admin area<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>Or use a nifty tool by WordPress lead developer Mark Jaquith:<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/coveredwebservices.com\/wp-plugin-install\/?plugin=browse-as\">this link<\/a> and follow the instructions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>For a manual installation via FTP:<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the <code>browse-as<\/code> directory to the <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory<\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in your WordPress admin area<\/li>\n<li>Go to the users list in the admin area<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>To upload the plugin through WordPress, instead of FTP:<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the downloaded zip file on the 'Add New' plugins screen (see the 'Upload' tab) in your WordPress admin area and activate.<\/li>\n<li>Go to the users list in the admin area<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt>How to use?<\/dt>\n<dd><p>Go to the users list in the admin, click on the 'Browse As' link next a user name and you can browse the site as that user. You don't need to know the user's password.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>0.2<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Typos fixes. Recommendation for the plugin User Switching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>0.1<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>First release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Allow your site administrators, editors and other roles with the &#039;edit_users&#039; capability to browse the site as a user they can edit.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/14726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14726"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/sorich87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=14726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}