Active installations30Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 1 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records Switcher version 1.3.0 as active, updated 18d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Switcher adds one icon button to the WordPress toolbar. On an admin page it opens the public page you viewed last; on a public page it opens the admin page you viewed last. Before you have viewed anything it opens the home page or the dashboard.
No settings, no extra files to load, nothing stored on the server.
Two cookies in your browser remember the last page on each side for 30 days ( switcher_public_url, switcher_admin_url ); they are set with the Secure (on HTTPS), HttpOnly and SameSite=Lax attributes.
Only real page views count: not AJAX or REST calls, feeds, embeds, 404 pages, previews or form submissions.
The button only ever opens an address on this site.
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+S (also on a Mac) switches sides without touching the mouse; it is ignored while you type in a field. The tooltip shows where the button leads.
Works for every logged-in user who sees the toolbar; visitors get nothing.
Developers: switcher_cookie_lifetime filters the 30 days, switcher_cookie_options the arguments passed to setcookie(), switcher_shortcut the key combination (return an empty array to disable it).
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
admin bar
navigation
switch
toolbar
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0 · PHP 7.3
Update activity15 Oct 202618d ago
“Tested up to” is directory metadata supplied by the plugin author. WP PlugIndex does not turn an older declaration into a claim that the plugin is incompatible.
Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
Version1.2→1.3.0
WordPress compatibility4.9.31→7.1.3
WordPress requirement4.3→5.0
PHP requirementNot listed→7.3
Tracking & source
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