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Switcher
v1.3.0 · by Kostya Tereshchuk
One toolbar button that switches between the admin page and the public page you viewed last.
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).