Title: Skeleton Key
Author: sant0sk1
Published: <strong>October 29, 2009</strong>
Last modified: December 20, 2009

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Skeleton Key

 By [sant0sk1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sant0sk1/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/skeleton-key.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/skeleton-key/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/skeleton-key/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/skeleton-key/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/skeleton-key/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/skeleton-key/)

## Description

As an administrator of a WordPress site with many users, it is often useful to login
to a user’s account to troubleshoot something. Asking for their password is tacky
and having to reset it is amateurish. Thankfully, you don’t have to do either when
you’re armed with this plugin. You can login to the site with any user’s account
by providing admin username followed by a “+” followed by their username and your
administrative password. All other user authentication is passed on to WordPress
core. Handy, huh?

To login as user joeblow you’d provide:

    ```
    Username = admin+joeblow
    Password = [the admin's password]
    ```

#### New In This Version

 1. WordPress 2.9 compatibility

### Contributors

 * [Doug Neiner](http://pixelgraphics.us/)

## Installation

 1. Upload wp-skeleton-key/ directory to the wp-content/plugins directory.
 2. Activate ‘Skeleton Key’ through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Login as any user with admin+user login and the administrator’s password!

## FAQ

  Does this plugin rock?

Yes, yes it does.

  I want feature [X]

You should fork the project on [GitHub](http://github.com/sant0sk1/wp-skeleton-key)
and help add it! Or contact me via [Twitter](http://twitter.com/sant0sk1) or my 
[blog](http://blog.jerodsanto.net) and let me know what features you think I should
add.

  Where do I submit bugs?

Issue tracking is also on [GitHub](http://github.com/sant0sk1/wp-skeleton-key/issues).

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Skeleton Key” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ sant0sk1 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sant0sk1/)

[Translate “Skeleton Key” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/skeleton-key)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/skeleton-key/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/skeleton-key/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/skeleton-key/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/skeleton-key/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.1

 * WordPress 2.9 compatibility

#### 1.1

 * Require admin+user to authenticate now. Secret-handshake-stylee.

#### 1.0.1

 * Optimized queries to make only one call to the database to retrieve and test 
   admin logins
 * Fixed links in Readme.txt file so closing parenthesis was not appended to the
   URL

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.1**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **40+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.9.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/skeleton-key/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[login](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/login/)
   [password](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/password/)[skeleton](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/skeleton/)
   [users](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/users/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/skeleton-key/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ sant0sk1 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sant0sk1/)

## Support

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