Get rid of that admin bar!

  • I suppose it’s understandable, to say the very least, that WP developers look to wordpress.com for cues. But that absurdly introduced admin bar is not an option, no: it’s by default hung out on the outside for logged in admin users – oh by the way, I can’t easily find where to shut it down: strike two – and it’s styled in a way that perhaps pleases the developers, but it’s in my face and therefor likely to irritate me.

    Which it does. Obviously.

    Search? Again a search form? What, afraid that people can’t find the search form that practically every theme already has? Or is it such a vital feature that even those who chose not to have it must stare at its ugly mug nonetheless?

    Also, I totally do not care for presumptively snazzy but totally insignificant (non-quantified) aggregate “statistics” graphics on the outside, and several of the functions chosen by the developers to put it in that admin bar are ridiculously arbitrary. So there’s one-click access to menu management from the front-end, but no one-click access to spam comments? Pulleez.

    It’s an abomination, and it must go.

    And “innovations” should, more than anything, be optional – not switched in and on by default.

    Sorry guys, this is a seriously bad case of a nice try without asking.

    I have no idea what else 3.1 does compared to 3.0.5 (forgive me but I don’t have time to plow through the release note, what with that irritating “Upgrade now!” message that I can’t switch off either) but all that baggage has not been worth the immense hassle of checking on compatible plugins. And of course, finding some that force a back-gration to 3.0.5 again. At least I won’t have to look at my site looking like it wants to be wordpress.com anymore.

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  • I like the admin bar. I want to keep it. The only prob. is that it’s causing my “absolute” positioned <div>’s to be shifted out of place by the height of the bar OR it covers them up at the top. Since it only affects logged-in users, changing the css won’t solve the problem. For example the admin bar covers the upper navigation on amplifiedny.com. It seems like this would affect a lot of people.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    The reason I tout the plugin is actually ONLY because you can shove it in the mu-plugins folder and then not fuss about it when you change themes. Helpful too for if you have clients. They can’t turn OFF a plugin in mu-plugins without FTPing it.

    And yes, it works on regular WordPress (not JUST MultiSite).

    ryanve – You can add in CSS to customize the Admin Bar itself, and maybe in THERE adjust the bump. Mind you, I fixed it by turning the admin bar on for everyone and put in the css bump ?? Also, please make your own topic for how to do that. This isn’t a support post.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    The only prob. is that it’s causing my “absolute” positioned <div>’s to be shifted out of place

    No method of adding the bar would work for all sites. The method being used was determined to be the most compatible after several different methods were tried.

    Most themes don’t use absolute positioned blocks on their pages, because they’re problematic to begin with.

    OH Ok, math problems, Love em.

    So 60 seconds if your already logged into a site.
    If your not and each site is at a different domain. 5 Minutes Per Customer Site, including Logging in testing and logging out.

    At over 130 sites = 10.834 Hours spent
    TOTAL WASTE OF MY TIME.

    Not to mention that When you click on a Category, You get a 404 error? WTF..

    I like the bar (but it doesn’t work for my site so I’m eliminating it) – I think it was probably a mistake to inject it into every theme for every logged in user by default without even an option to turn it off by default (there should have been an option for this I think). A less contentious approach might have been to have it off by default and a hierarchy of options to turn it on (wp default setting, per-user setting, theme tag to draw it, per-user-type setting, …)

    I just released a plugin that gives you some more control over which user roles see the admin bar, in case that helps any of you.

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/admin-bar-disabler/

    @ Ipstenu and Otto Thanks ??

    It’s pretty simple: It broke my layout!
    That is NOT good.
    The fact that you have to install a plugin to make a ‘feature’ that ruins your layout go away is mental and bad practice. Bad move WordPress.

    My vote is WordPress should have a setting for:

    a) Admin bar On by default (default),
    b) Admin bar Off by default, or…
    c) Disable Admin bar

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