1.0 release broken

I’m experiencing the same issues.

@mechter – I think selecting from a couple favorite users is a great idea.

Markus – when you say

the Ajax search box not only looks broken, but does not seem to work.

Can you explain exactly what does or does not happen please then I can look into this issue.

I have just pushed an update to version 1.0.3 which corrects some style issues and the way the styles were rendered on the backend. This could fix some of the issues you where having.

Also just to not that if you hit search with no criteria entered it should list all users.

Sure, it looked broken because the search box and button where rendered overflowing the bottom of their containing menu. I’ve done some testing and it seems that it did work, but the names were rendered somewhere below the menu so that they were hard to spot. Nevermind though because all of this seems fixed in v1.0.4 which I tested just now. I’ll mark this topic as resolved.

Searching with an empty name does, in fact, bring up a list of all users. However, this is still a usability impairment compared to v0.2 for test installations with few users because it takes one more click and waiting for an AJAX response before one can switch.

You could fix this by querying, say, 20 users on page load and if less are being returned, display the user list rather than the search box. You could also implement search-as-you-type for the search box, e.g. by automatically sening the AJAX request after the third character has been typed and 0.3 seconds have passed since the last keystroke. Finally, you could store switched-to users in the session and display them as recently switched-to users so that repeated switching (which is common during testing) does not require to repeat the type-click-wait-for-response cycle. Just some ideas to increase the usability.

Best wishes,
Markus

PS: Thanks for this plugin, it’s improving my workflow when developing plugins/themes and testing access and content display for different users. I’ll stick with v0.2 for the time being as this version offers the best user experience for my purposes.

Thanks for the feedback Markus – appreciate the ideas. Particularly like this one:

Finally, you could store switched-to users in the session and display them as recently switched-to users so that repeated switching (which is common during testing) does not require to repeat the type-click-wait-for-response cycle. Just some ideas to increase the usability

Therefore will have a look at implementing something like this as soon as I can. I am just conscious of making the plugin too specific that all, but I understand some of your concerns above.