532 thoughts on “WordPress Admin Bar”

1. Right – Sorry about name squatting. I agree it might get confusing in the future – I hadn’t thought of that when I selected it though. I will make note of your plugin, as well as the URI where they can find it on WordPress.org, and a brief explanation that someone may want to check out yours as well as mine in my extra info section of the readme.txt. 😉

   I am also going to implement some other features that increase usability – I may release it under another name then.

   BTW – it is now available from the WordPress.org plugins directory.

2. how can i make this plugin be global on wordpress mu script? any one have any ideeas ? i`ll do it myself but i dont know php :(( it will be better and with register link 😀

3. Can I use WordPress Admin Bar with WordPress < v1.5.x ?

4. Hi Folks,

   Is there a way to add a link to the admin bar for new user registrations? A “sign up” button or something?

   Also, is there a way to get rid of the WordPress icon?

   Thanks!

5. 
   Roll Up:
   

   Can I use WordPress Admin Bar with WordPress < v1.5.x ?

   No, lol.

6. Ben: see Donald’s links a few comments above yours for non-logged in bar.

   As for the icon, it’s just CSS styling on an unordered list. Edit the CSS. 🙂

7. @Viper007Bond thanks a lot. I figured those tips were in here somewhere but that’s a LOT of comments to read through. Thanks for the tips. Great work by the way – really cool stuff, keep it up.

8. Ben: You might also want to consider adding a new ‘theme’ to the system. That way you can copy the default theme into your own new one and make the changes there so they dont’ get overwritten when you update. Admin bar theme api.

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10. “Everything here applies to your account only”

    Everything was good until I noticed this. Can’t we have settings available, which allows admin to select defaults for the different user roles?

    So we can get rid of tools and comments and whatever is needed depending on whether the users is a subscriber or author, etc.

    Cheers!

    • Steven: There is no UI for this but it is very possible to set up defaults using a tiny bit of plugin code. I posted about it earlier in the comments: http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-admin-bar/#comment-227159

      I have this set up on my site and its working fine for me. Here is a paste of the code I’m using: http://pastie.org/746281

      • If I remember correctly, the weird array format is due to children. “0” controls the top level item and named keys controls the children.

        This plugin is really in need of a recode.

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12. useful sharing .. Thank publishers say:)))

13. Everything here applies to your account only”

    Everything was good until I noticed this. Can’t we have settings available, which allows admin to select defaults for the different user roles?

    So we can get rid of tools and comments and whatever is needed depending on whether the users is a subscriber or author, etc.

    Cheers!

    • Did you actually try it out as another user? The admin bar only shows items that the user can access (it matches the real admin menu exactly). Subscribers don’t see the Comments menu for example. 😉

      And if you scroll up, there should be some code for how to control the defaults using a filter.

14. so nice thankss

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16. Everything was good until I noticed this. Can’t we have settings available, which allows admin to select defaults for the different user roles?

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18. Hi, can i make this admin bar vissible to admin only? Thanks

    • It only displays for logged in users and will show those users only the menus they have access to (it’s dynamic). If that’s still not enough, then edit the top of the plugin and change the required capability from “read” to “manage_options”.

19. Thanks Viper, works, i use simple press forum and set options for logged in user so they can not access dashboard but redirect to forum profile, so with this admin bar no matter what they click they go to forum, thats why i needed admin only 🙂

20. your rock great plugin

21. Hey Viper, I have an issue that I need resolved. When I use admin bar I can not choose anything on the drop down list but I can choose what is in the main bar. Once it drops down and I scroll to the drop down box it disappears….

    Any Idea or help is appreciated, thanks!

    • Sounds like something in your theme’s CSS is breaking it.

22. Hi,
    I am using the WordPress Admin Bar. The Contact button occurs in it, but the Edit dropdown menu has a broken link:
    http://domain.com/wp-admin/wpcf7

    This leads to an Error 404.

    The link should be:
    http://domain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpcf7

    Any ideas?

    Thank you.

    • Bug on my end. I’ll try and remember to fix it when I update this plugin for WordPress 3.0.

      • Thanks Viper007Bond.

        Greg.

23. Hey dude love the plugin and use it on all my sites!
    I have one wish, I would love to be able to set the default user leavel that sees the admin bar, like editor or above. That would be really cool!

    Thanks For The Great Plugin It Is A Time Saver!

    • i think so too!

24. Another Viper007Bond plugin for my site 🙂

    Please keep up the work, this is well appreciated!

    Thanks!

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26. How can I manage, what other users can see on their Admin Bar?

    I mean – I’ve installed plugin Messages and I see it on my bar, but other users have to turn it on manually. Is there a possibility to do it? If not – where does it save options? Name of database, table or file?

27. hi sir
    Thank you for this great plugin! Very good
    very good blog

28. Hey Viper, I have been looking for weeks in my css and can not narrow it down to what is breaking your plugin… any ideas on where to look that is causing my problem? (when I drop down anything on the bar and move the cursor over the drop it hides the drop down menu) Everything in the bar itself works and I have been using it that way but the drop down portion would be perfect to get working… if you have ANY ideas let me know Viper – Thanks!

29. ok so im confused…. i installed the plugin an its working as it should on the admin side.. but when i goto view it on the front end, theres a space there where the tool bar should be displayed but… no toolbar. I am not sure what could be the issue here? Any help would be apperciated.

    • Read this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-admin-bar/faq/

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32. Viper – very nice plugin. Thank you.

    If you’re so inclined, it would be very nice if admin could set the view of items for other users rather than users being able to edit their own options, giving the admin the ability to set it for them is good.

    Even better would be the ability for the admin to set those and then not allow them to customize it.

    Thank you,
    Jason

    • Jason: There is a simple API you can use to filter the default settings for all users, it is only a few lines in functions.php. Users can still change their own settings but you control the initial values which will solve most problems: http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-admin-bar/#comment-229249

33. Hello How can I manage, what other users can see on their Admin Bar

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35. I was wondering if you knew what would cause the admin bar to display at the top of my footer instead of at the top of the page. I’m using the plugin on two different sites. On one it works perfect, but on the other it puts the bar in my footer. Any idea what would cause this? Love the plugin by the way.

    Thanks

    • Nevermind. My problem was answered in previous comments. Needed wp_footer right before .

36. very good job guys, thank you all

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38. how i can set the appearance of menus for every user, not just for my account??

39. Hi, I am getting an error when I click on the PAGES–>EDIT THIS link. It’s a 500 internal server error. The link looks wrong. It’s linking to:

    https://site.com/blogname/wp-admin/https://site.com/blogname/wp-admin/page.php?action=edit&post=853

    This is running under WPMU as a subdirectory install. As you can see, I’m also running the admin behind SSL.

    The other links work properly.

40. FYI, I commented out lines 461-463 and now the link works. So the issue is with those lines.

41. I got a small problem with the admin bar:
    I am using the same theme as yours (Mystique). When I activate the admin bar In the admin area, the bar is placed right on top of the page just like in wordpress.com. But when I activate “On the Site” option, the bar is displayed on top of the main content page below the navigation bar and not on the main screen. Can you please tell me how to fix this? Thanks

    • It’s due to CSS from the theme. Edit the theme’s footer.php and move <?php wp_footer(); ?> to directly before </body>.

      • Thanks a lot 🙂
        I noticed that under the word “Dashboard”, the bar footer is a bit bigger than the rest of the bar thus ending up something like this:

        ______————————————————-

        Why is it so? 🙂

        • Same reason as before. CSS from the theme is affecting it. It hasn’t bothered me enough to track it down. 🙂

          • I guess even i will not get myself bothered by it 😛

            Cheerz… 🙂

42. Alex, You are the best. A great plugin!!!!!

43. Hi Alex,

    I noticed there’s a small CSS bug in all the different styles/colour for the admin bar (except for the blue one). Might be my particular theme, but I get square white list bullets next to all the list item in the bar, but only when viewing the bar on the home page/front end of my site (not on th eWP interface). Solved it by setting
    list-style: none !important;
    on the #wpabar ul li definition as well as the #wpabar ul def. in each CSS file (this was done in the blue.css file, but not the others).

    Otherwise, thanks for the great plug-in.

    • I must have forgotten or something. I really should make a common file and then color-only files…

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45. Nice ideas for blogs. Thanks a lot.

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48. I LOVE your Admin bar plugin but I have a problem after upgrading to WordPress 3.0; I cannot find where to modify the settings. I have tried under plugins and under settings in the admin side, but there is no link to wp-admin bar. Where should I go or what should I do?

    • Same place it’s always been — under “Tools” since low-level users don’t have access to the Settings menu. 🙂

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