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

1.7.6.1

• Compatibility: Improve customizer compatibility. #88
• Compatibility/Fix: Frontend error with Yoast SEO. Yoast SEO #9285

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7.6

• Feature: Role manager: Option to migrate users to another role after deleting a role. #86
• Enhancement: Enhance user full access validation for single installations. Not only check for super admin but also the capabilities edit_users and delete_plugins.
• Enhancement: Add customizer support and a new setting to disable this. #26
• Enhancement: Compatibility with $_SERVER['ORIG_REQUEST_URI'] for removable query args on front end. #87
• UI: Support SVG and file icons + Base64 encoded strings.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7.5

• Feature: Language switcher. #81
• Enhancement: Store options network wide instead of per blog/site if network/multisite is enabled.
• Enhancement: Action links (no-JS) on frontend.
• Enhancement: Add filter view_admin_as_freeze_locale to overwrite user setting.
• Fix: JavaScript init on frontend.
• UI: Various minor enhancements.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7.4

• Feature: Role defaults / Role manager: download export data as file + import from file. #73
• Enhancement: Refresh page instead of redirect to home when switching to a site visitor on the frontend. #76
• Enhancement: Role Manager: Refresh the page if a role is updated while active in the current view.
• Enhancement: jQuery selector performance.
• Compatibility: WP 4.9 capabilities.
• Compatibility: WP Admin UI Customize admin bar editor. #40 & WAUC/#1 & WAUC/#2
• Compatibility: Fix issue with Restrict User Access. RUA/#15
• Compatibility: Fetch all capabilities from Yoast SEO (5.5+).
• Compatibility: Must-use plugin loader scripts.
• UI: The almighty View Admin As loader icon.
• UI: Full opacity when semi-transparent group nodes are opened.
• UI: Admin page links for Groups and Restrict User Access modules.
• UI: Resizable checkbox wrappers.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7.3

• Feature: Role Manager: Import/Export roles. #51 & PR #62
• Feature/Enhancement: Option to disable super admin status when a view is active and modifies the current user. #53 & PR #61
• Enhancement: Role Manager: Show custom capabilities that are not yet stored but used in an active caps view. #70
• Enhancement: Prevent duplicate names when fetching capabilities from WP objects.
• Enhancement: Allow this plugin to be installed as a must-use plugin. #71
  • More info: Docs: Install as a must-use plugin & WP codex: mu-plugins
• Enhancement: Role Defaults: Enhance meta key comparison.
• UI: Option tooltips. #67
• UI: Enhance full popup caps view.
• Refactoring: Fix base class name.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7.2

• Feature: Integration with the "Groups" plugin. Introduces a new view type groups when this plugin is activated. #11
• Fix: auto max height didn't work on frontend. #55
• Fix: Role Manager used boolval() which is only available in PHP 5.5+. #63
• Fix: view_admin_as_superior_admins filter was not working for single installations. #65
• Compatibility: Allow other plugins to overwrite our user_has_cap filter by setting it's priority as first (large negative number). #56. Thanks to @pbiron for the report.
• Compatibility: Run the user_has_cap filter in your map_meta_cap filter. #56
• Compatibility: Add new network capabilities (WP 4.8) to the list. #64
• Enhancement: Automatic JS handling for simple and more advanced options. #60
• Enhancement: Role defaults: Rename all wildcard to __all__ to prevent a possible conflict with custom roles.
• Enhancement: Role defaults: Add recording indicator icon to the top level node when a role view is active.
• Refactoring: Move form logic to separate class and extend it (admin bar)

Detailed info: PR on GitHub & Groups integration PR on GitHub

1.7.1

• Feature: Module Role Manager: Rename roles. #47
• Enhancement: Improve fetching available capabilities for a super admin. It now also checks for registered custom post type and taxonomy capabilities and more other plugins.
• Compatibility: Also use the user_has_cap filter besides map_meta_cap to further improve capability and role view compatibility.
• UI: Add submenu scrollbar when there are too much users under a role. #49
• UI: Module Role Manager: Show original role name for reference.
• Accessibility: Fix tabindex for some nodes that have form elements.
• Updated: Screenshots.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.7

• Feature: New module Role manager. Add, edit and/or remove roles and grant or deny them capabilities. #43
• Feature: Module Role Defaults: Added the option to copy defaults from one role to another (or multiple). #44
• Enhancement/UI: Enable and Improve responsive styles/a11y. #16
• Enhancement/UI: Improved the autoHeight calculation (submenu and popup).
• Enhancement: View combinations now working in code (No UI). #18
• Enhancement: Major code refactoring for better standards en easier development.
• Maintenance: Validated compatibility with "Restrict User Access" (RUA) plugin v0.14. #31
• Compatibility: Tested with WordPress 4.8 (alpha) and requires WordPress 4.1 or higher (was 3.5).
• Fix: Fixed all major CodeClimate issues. All green now!
• Wiki (documentation) updated.
• Screenshots & Banners updated.

Detailed info: PR on GitHub

1.6.4

• Feature: Integration with the "Restrict User Access" (RUA) plugin. Introduces a new view type "access levels" when this plugin is activated. #31
• Enhancement: Improve compatibility with plugins that use the current user object. Related: #32
• Enhancement: Improve compatibility with plugins that use the role objects.
• Enhancement: Redirect to homepage when selecting the visitor view.
• Enhancement: Integrate with the capability groups in plugin "User Role Editor".
• Fix: Started to use CodeClimate for style checks + applied fixes. #37

Detailed info: PR on GitHub & RUA integration PR on GitHub