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View Admin As · Version history

View Admin As changelog and version history

Latest version
1.8.10
Oct 19, 2026 (21 days ago)
Releases
40
since 2015
In the last year
2
about one every 39 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.2.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20156 releases
  • 201613 releases
  • 20178 releases
  • 20186 releases
  • 20192 releases
  • 20201 release
  • 20221 release
  • 20241 release
  • 20262 releases

20262 releases

  1. View Admin As 1.8.10Latest

    • Compatibility: Move label initialization to fix _load_textdomain_just_in_time notice since WP 6.7.
    • Fix: Clear view in current session when resetting manually.
    • Fix: URE Integration: Fix the level at which the View Admin As group appears. #135 (credits @pbiron)
    • Tests: Fix unit tests.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  2. View Admin As 1.8.9

    • Fix: Event bubbling for select elements #130
    • Fix: Check if removable query args exists before adding removal script on front-end
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20241 release

  1. View Admin As 1.8.8

    • Enhancement: RTL support. #122
    • Enhancement: User context for checking the edit_user capability.
    • Enhancement: Enhance front-end CSS by preventing theme overrides. #120
    • Enhancement/Fix: JSON/REST call checks.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20221 release

  1. View Admin As 1.8.7

    • Enhancement: Added hooks vaa_view_admin_as_reset_all_views, vaa_view_admin_as_cleanup_views, vaa_view_admin_as_reset_view, vaa_view_admin_as_update_view.
    • Enhancement/Compatibility: Fix compatibility issue with MetaSlider block preview (JSON/AJAX requests) #117
    • Compatibility: Fixed issues with capability filters overwriting available capabilities.
    • Compatibility: Remove redundant canonical tag. #119
    • Compatibility: WordPress 5.7 UI.
    • Fixed: Missing textdomain parameter.
    • Refactor: Added action logs.
    • Refactor: Enhance view type classes.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20201 release

  1. View Admin As 1.8.6

    • Compatibility: WordPress 5.4 apply_shortcodes() function. #111
    • Compatibility: Add Google Site Kit capabilities. #110
    • Compatibility: User Role Editor capability filter format. #112
    • Enhancement: Always show force-ajax-users setting to optionally prevent query.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20192 releases

  1. View Admin As 1.8.5

    • Compatibility: CSS compatibility for WP 5.3
    • Compatibility: Roles are now translated in all cases since WP 5.2.
    • Enhancement: JS performance.
    • Enhancement: Enhance AJAX checks.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  2. View Admin As 1.8.4

    • Enhancement: Role Manager: Reload when in a user view and the user’s role has been modified. #105
    • Compatibility: WordPress 5.2 admin bar arrow icon update. WP Core #37513
    • Compatibility: Dark Mode (Github)
    • Fix: Role Defaults: Only return screen setting overwrite if found. #104
    • API: Added API method is_view_active(). (Documentation)
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

20186 releases

  1. View Admin As 1.8.3

    • Compatibility: Users always have the exists capability. Go to issue
    • Compatibility: WordPress 4.9.6 privacy capabilities.
    • API: Added several API methods & enhancements.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  2. View Admin As 1.8.2

    • Enhancement/Fix: Support AJAX search in the Role Defaults module. #100
    • Enhancement: Add support for X-Redirect-By header since WordPress 5.0. #42313
    • Enhancement: Improve uninstall script.
    • Enhancement: Use latest WPCS v1.1 update and fix code standard notices.
    • UI: Change the default top level node text to “View As” (same as Facebook uses).
    • Updated: Screenshots
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  3. View Admin As 1.8.1

    • Feature: Support searching users by multiple user columns like email, url, etc. #95
    • Feature: User setting to force AJAX search for users. #96
    • Feature: New filter: view_admin_as_user_ajax_search to force AJAX search for user at all times.
    • Fix: Prevent “form changed” popup which showed in various pages. #93
    • Enhancement: Improve Pods Framework compatibility when in a view.
    • Enhancement: Improve getting view data on load.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub

  4. View Admin As 1.8

    • Feature: View combinations UI. #18
    • Feature/Enhancement: Limit user query to max 100 users for performance. Switch to AJAX search if there are more users than this limit. #19
    • Accessibility: New filter: view_admin_as_user_query_limit to change the limit used to query users.
    • Accessibility: New filters: vaa_admin_bar_view_title_role & vaa_admin_bar_view_title_user & vaa_admin_bar_view_title_locale to change the titles for role, users and languages.
    • Accessibility: New filter: vaa_admin_bar_view_title_user_show_roles to remove the roles from user nodes.
    • Accessibility: New filter: view_admin_as_full_access_capabilities for single site installations to change the capabilities required to gain full access to this plugin.
    • Enhancement: Use a class autoloader.
    • Enhancement: Stop using the rel attribute for view type data.
    • Enhancement: Access validation logic.
    • Compatibility: Patch Yoast SEO compatibility. Yoast SEO #9365
    • Refactoring: Action/Filter hook manager class. #77
    • Refactoring: Refactor all view types as separate modules. #84
    • Fix: Use prop instead of attr for checked attributes in checkbox inputs.
    • Updated/Added: Screenshots.
    • Detailed info: PR on GitHub
    • Complete changelog

  5. View Admin As 1.7.6.1

  6. View Admin As 1.7.6

20178 releases

  1. View Admin As 1.7.5

  2. View Admin As 1.7.4

  3. View Admin As 1.7.3

  4. View Admin As 1.7.2

  5. View Admin As 1.7.1

  6. View Admin As 1.7

  7. View Admin As 1.6.4

  8. View Admin As 1.6.3

201613 releases

  1. View Admin As 1.6.2

  2. View Admin As 1.6.1

  3. View Admin As 1.6

  4. View Admin As 1.5.3

  5. View Admin As 1.5.2.1

  6. View Admin As 1.5.2

  7. View Admin As 1.5.1

  8. View Admin As 1.5

  9. View Admin As 1.4.1

  10. View Admin As 1.4

  11. View Admin As 1.3.4

  12. View Admin As 1.3.3

  13. View Admin As 1.3.2

20156 releases

  1. View Admin As 1.3.1

  2. View Admin As 1.3

  3. View Admin As 1.2.2

  4. View Admin As 1.2.1

  5. View Admin As 1.1

  6. View Admin As 1.0

Questions about View Admin As’s releases

What is the latest version of View Admin As?

1.8.10, released on Oct 19, 2026 (3 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.2.4 or later.

How often is View Admin As updated?

2 releases in the last year, about one every 39 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from September 2015.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in View Admin As’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.