Tag Archives: WP Admin Bar

How To Hide WordPress Admin Bar On Frontend & Vice Versa?

WordPress admin bar provides you admin area links connecting the back end of your website to the frontend. This toolbar, present on the top of every WordPress installation is very useful for accessing quick website management features. Still, sometimes it doesn’t looks great on the frontend of every website.

In this lesson you will learn about hiding it completely or under certain defined conditions on your website.

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How To Activate/Deactivate Plugins From WordPress Admin Bar?

If you more frequently test plugins on your WordPress website or working on some client website, testing plugins for your new how-to tutorial or may be if you are a developer wanting to quickly see something before and after any plugin is activated.

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Auto Hide Your WordPress Admin Toolbar On Frontend And/Or Backend

Earlier we have discussed about hiding WordPress admin toolbar completely from the frontend of your website. Now today in this lesson you will see how to use auto hide feature on admin toolbar and make it only visible when mouse is hovered on the top of your website’s screen.  Continue reading Auto Hide Your WordPress Admin Toolbar On Frontend And/Or Backend

How To Add Menu Locations On WordPress Admin Bar?

Not only on your theme’s header and sidebar but now you can use custom menus on your WordPress admin toolbar. Sometime back we have discussed about adding custom links to WordPress admin toolbar and now you can make things more easy by adding custom menus to your admin toolbar in a click.

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How To Show WordPress Admin Toolbar On Per User Basis?

Now WordPress provides you option to set frontend admin bar visibility on per user basis and also your users can themselves decide that whether they want to see admin bar on frontend or not. In this tutorial we will be explaining two things: First, how your users can set the admin bar visibility themselves and second, how you can enable or disable admin bar on per user basis.

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How To Use A Custom Background Image On WordPress Admin Bar?

In this tutorial we will show you how to set a custom background image on your WordPress admin bar. There are a lot of plugins available for customizing WordPress admin bar, new WordPress admin bar is also loaded with various color schemes you can choose from user profile page and also enforce it on the frontend of your website. Even you can set a default user color scheme for all users of your website:

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Top 10 Plugins For Customizing The New WordPress Admin Toolbar

New WordPress admin bar has new CSS, options and code. Hence all old abandoned plugins doesn’t works for it anymore. There are some useful hacks for customizing the behaviour of this new admin bar. For example: New versions (3.8+ versions) of WordPress provides you a new set of admin area themes and new visual changes. They provides you ability to select from eight different color schemes. However, the themes are not applicable on front end admin bar. Hence, by default the front end admin toolbar always shows its default color.

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How To Make WordPress Admin Bar Slide?

You make WordPress admin bar slide by replacing it with an admin button, it saves your frontend space without completely disabling or hiding the toolbar. Admin Bar Button is a WordPress plugin which upon activation replaces the default WP admin Bar on the front end with a simple slide button. Clicking this admin button slides and displays the admin bar and makes it accessible for you and other users of your website.

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How To Add An Attractive Sliding Panel In WordPress?

You can easily add a beautiful panel with a sliding login form for logged out users and admin area and site management links for logged in users. WP Sliding Login/Dashboard Panel provides you a cool slide login and dashboard links panel which automatically get fixed at the top of your website. The good thing is that you can disable the default login/dashboard functionality and use your own custom HTML content instead.

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How To Activate & Deactivate Plugins Right From WordPress Admin Bar?

Sometimes, specially while working on client websites and when installing many plugins for testing purposes to see which one works best for you, it becomes very irritating to again and again visit plugins admin page for deactivating plugins. This tutorial is on a plugin that makes this job easy by enabling you to quickly toggle plugin activation status from the WordPress toolbar. Best for developers.

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How To Turn WordPress Admin Bar Into Sticky Footer Bar?

There are plugins that lets you customize admin bar like you can remove the logo, change its color, add custom links or menus etc etc. Now this tutorial explains you how in seconds you can turn your WordPress admin bar into a sticky footer bar without disturbing its symmetry and beauty.

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Enable 3 Menu Locations In New WordPress Admin Toolbar

Admin Toolbar Menus, a new WordPress plugin add 3 new menu locations to the WP toolbar and you can easily create your own custom toolbar menus with default WordPress menus functionality present in Dashboard -> Appearance -> Menus page. It supports multi level navigation and works seamlessly with existing toolbar menus.

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Quick Page Edit Toolbar For Managing Your WordPress Site Pages

Page Edit Toolbar is a simple WordPress plugin that adds a toolbar (in WP admin bar) showing list of recently updated pages, links present in the list directs you to edit section of particular page.

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How To Add WordPress Theme & Plugin Menus In Admin Bar ?

Now for quick access you can easily add WordPress theme and plugin dashboard menus in admin bar by activating a simple-light-weight WordPress plugin called Plugins and Themes in Admin Bar. The plugin becomes more useful for WordPress developers who need to install, upload and edit themes or plugins often.

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Replace WordPress Howdy Message With Greetings Depending Upon The DayTime

There are many different plugins available that allows you to hide or edit WordPress Howdy message which shows up on the top right corner or admin bar and is visible only to logged in users. This tutorial explains you how you can change that Howdy message and add some greetings depending on the time of the day. For Example: If its morning time the plugin will display Good Morning message as shown in the given screenshot.

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How To Add All BuddyPress My Account Links To A Sidebar Widget ?

Now when BuddyPress is activated its all Account Links automatically get integrated with WordPress Admin Bar. Now BuddyPress doesn’t provides any BuddyBar to its new users. In old days there were many free BuddyPress plugins available for customizing BuddyBar and hence it was easy for the site owners to customize BuddyBar in their own style. But now you only get WordPress admin bar and there is not a single plugin available that provides you full customization of  WP Admin Bar visually in a user-friendly way. There are some good plugins they only provides you tweaks unless you are very good in writing CSS.

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How To Remove WordPress Logo From Admin Bar Easily ?

Sometimes you want to remove the logo from WordPress admin bar especially when you are keeping admin bar visible for the logged out users or sometimes in your client websites etc. You can do this very easily by adding a code snippet in your theme functions file.

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