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ABCode View As Role Switcher

Name: ABCode View As Role Switcher
Author: Ash Brentnall | ABCode

View your site as a subscriber, customer, editor or logged-out visitor from the toolbar. Real role switching, no test accounts needed.

ABCode View As Role Switcher ranks #64,137 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Aug 13, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v2.0.0 Current Version v2.0.0

Updated 2 months ago Last Update on 13 Aug, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.0.0
Last Updated: Aug 13, 2026
Requires WP: 5.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Ash Brentnall | ABCode

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about ABCode View As Role Switcher

Hover View As in the toolbar and choose View as Customer. The page reloads with a customer's capabilities and the toolbar turns green to show you are in a switched view. Choose Switch back to your own account to end it.

No, and that is the point of this plugin. It switches to the role itself, so a role added by WooCommerce or a membership plugin this morning can be tested this afternoon with nothing to set up first.

Never. Nothing is written to the database at any point. The switch is a filter applied while a page is being built, held in a signed cookie that expires on its own, and it only ever affects the person who started it.

Yes. Switch to Customer, Shop Manager, or a logged-out visitor and browse the shop, a product page or the account pages. Anything that asks WordPress what the current user is allowed to do, which is how WooCommerce and its extensions gate content, gets the switched answer.

Yes, for anything that gates content on capabilities or roles, which is nearly all of them. Content restricted to a specific user, or to somebody's purchase history, is tied to an account rather than a role, so that will still resolve against your own account.

Yes. View as a logged-out visitor treats the request as though nobody is signed in, so you see exactly what a first-time visitor sees. The toolbar stays on screen so you can get back.

Click the green Viewing as item in the toolbar, or pick Switch back to your own account from it. If the toolbar is hidden by your theme, go to Tools > View As Role in wp-admin and press End the session now. wp-admin is never switched, so that page always works.

No. There are three separate ways out: the toolbar, the button on the settings screen, and the session's own expiry. Logging out ends it too.

No. It applies to your browser only, for the length of the session. Nobody else's experience of the site changes.

The switcher is available in wp-admin, and choosing a role from there opens the front end in a new tab. The switch itself is deliberately not applied to admin screens, because an administrator browsing wp-admin with a subscriber's capabilities would simply be locked out of it.

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