View Admin As

80 Quality Score

Active Installs

18/30

With 9,000 active installs the plugin has a small but respectable install base, scoring 59 out of 30 because it over-indexes relative to its size for this category.

Update Freshness

25/25

It was updated on 2024-11-23 and tested against WordPress 6.7.5, indicating active maintenance that scored 24 out of 25.

User Rating

15/15

The 98 out of 100 rating from 49 reviewers is exceptionally high, earning a full 98 out of 15 and showing strong user satisfaction.

Support Health

8/15

With 0 support threads opened and 0 resolved, there is essentially no public track record of support responsiveness, scoring a middling 50 out of 15.

WP Compatibility

15/15

It requires only WordPress 4.1 and PHP 5.2.4, which gives very broad compatibility but also signals older baseline requirements, scoring 50 out of 15.

Scores higher than 79% of indexed plugins

About

View the WordPress admin as a different role or visitor, switch between users, temporarily change your capabilities, set screen settings for roles.

Active Installs 9k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.9/5

Last Updated 2026-09-10 12:28am GMT

Requires WordPress 4.1+

Tested Up To 7.1

Requires PHP 5.2.4+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

View Admin As lets a logged-in administrator see the WordPress dashboard exactly as another user, role, or visitor would see it, without actually logging out. It also allows temporary capability overrides and per-role screen settings, which is useful for testing and debugging permission-related issues.

Who It's For

This plugin is aimed at agencies, developers, and site administrators who manage multi-user WordPress installations and need to verify what clients, editors, subscribers, or custom roles actually experience in the admin. It is particularly useful for membership sites, teams, and anyone debugging role-based access issues.

Who Should Skip It

If you run a single-user blog or never need to inspect what other roles see, this plugin is overkill and adds unnecessary admin surface area. Site owners who only need basic role editing should look at Members or User Role Editor instead.

The Bottom Line

View Admin As delivers a very specific capability, viewing the admin as another role, and its 98/100 rating from 49 users shows it does that job well. The overall quality score of 53.39 is dragged down by weak support metrics and low visibility, so trust the rating more than the headline number. It is a niche tool worth installing for agencies and multi-role site managers, but not for most solo site owners.

Pick Members if you need a full role and capability editor with 300,000 installs and a 93.55 score, rather than just a role-viewing tool.

User Switching 86/100

Pick User Switching with 200,000 installs if you simply want to log in as another user account, which is the closest direct alternative.

Admin Menu Editor 86/100

Pick Admin Menu Editor if your main concern is controlling what menu items appear for each role rather than previewing the whole admin.

Loginizer 89/100

Pick Loginizer if your focus is hardening login security across 1,000,000 sites rather than role-based admin viewing.

Redux Framework 87/100

Pick Redux Framework if you are building admin options pages and need a settings framework, not a role preview utility.