Make admin bar more useful

  • To me, the admin bar is more of a designer bar, because it focuses on activities related to building and styling the site, but not to administering it on an ongoing basis.

    For example, the admin bar contains a link to themes, but not to plugins. On average, WordPress sites probably have 25 plugins and only 1 theme, and plugins are updated far more frequently than themes are.

    Similarly, there are links to various ways of customizing the theme (menus, background, etc), but not to users or comments.

    A radical idea would be to replicate the admin menu used “inside” WordPress to make everything accessible from the front end via the admin bar. This way, each site’s unique combination of tasks and each user’s unique role will determine what is available.

    This approach has the advantage of making plugin-specific items available without any special code in the plugins.

    Alternatively, the admin bar should be redone based on the most common administrative tasks performed across WordPress installations. I’m sure wordpress.com can provide those stats.

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  • Hello galbaras,

    Those are some good ideas. One of the best ways to get that information to the people who can make those kinds of changes is to get involved with the WordPress community. Since WordPress is free to users it is also built and updated by users. Here is a link on how to get involved. https://make.www.ads-software.com/

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    For example, the admin bar contains a link to themes, but not to plugins. On average, WordPress sites probably have 25 plugins and only 1 theme, and plugins are updated far more frequently than themes are.

    The reason there is because people want to edit their theme more than their plugins ??

    Also the + button has an option to add a new user. But users… That’s a good point! Dunno why we don’t do that.

    Thread Starter Gal Baras

    (@galbaras)

    @bhonn, what’s the best way to put this in motion? Should I open a core ticket for this?

    I know some of the core developers and this is not something I could do as well as they can, so at this point, I’m interested in the best person/entity to receive these ideas.

    @ipstenu, I’m not sure why you think people want to edit their theme more than they need to update their plugins. Either way, theme editing is not done on the Themes page. Many themes now have a dedicated options panel and soon, everyone will be able to do everything in the Customizer page anyway.

    Cheers,
    Gal

    If you would like to get your idea on the list here is a good place to start.
    https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/2015/08/19/wordpress-4-4-whats-on-your-wishlist/

    Also there are other ways to help besides coding, like testing when new versions are in the making. Hope I get the link right this time. https://make.www.ads-software.com/

    Thread Starter Gal Baras

    (@galbaras)

    Done. Thank you for the suggestion.

    Completely opposed to this. Remove everything from adminbar except the home icon on the far left and the profile options on the far right.

    Less is more.

    KISS.

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