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Maybe someone could suggest to them they leave the admin bar alone unless someone wants to hide it with their plugin when they don’t have another plugin to hide it with. That would be the common sense approach.

A lot of developers think they are doing you a favor by hiding the admin bar without giving the option to do so. Rather short sighted, in my opinion.

This plugin offers the option to show for all or hide for some or hide for all. There are also theme developers who believe the admin bar shouldn’t be there and they hide it by default. It’s really unfortunate.

There are plenty of plugins dedicated to hiding the admin bar, it makes no sense to do it by default with a user plugin without giving the option to let it show.

I cannot make changes to this plugin. I am just a contributor. And I’m not sure I would, if I could. This is a completely free plugin where the one you are talking about has a paid version. They could easily remedy the situation.

Advising on modifying other plugins isn’t a good practice, here. I would suggest contacting them and asking them to open up their options by allowing admin to choose whether or not to hide the admin bar.

They are hiding it based on the user access level not giving admin the option.

The problem with making those modifications, is, as soon as they update the plugin you will have to do it again.

Having said that, if it were me and I wanted to have something working while I waited for the developer of that plugin to respond, I would just comment out line 69 and those lines you are showing. But that’s me.

The only thing those lines do is actually remove the admin bar based on the user access level. Access to admin area has already been redirected to the home url above those lines. So, it would be my opinion that the lines we are talking about aren’t really needed except to remove the option to see the admin bar.

Since WP Symposium Toolbar allows you to remove anything in the toolbar (admin bar) having to do with navigation to the backend, menu items in the admin bar leading to the backend wouldn’t necessarily be a concern to you.

Guillaume may have a better and more permanent solution but that is what I would do for a quick, temporary solution if you want to test both plugins together.

My apologies,

The file is wpuf.php. I was looking at something else when I wrote that.

Lines 69 and 396.

Hi @sounds,

In WP User Frontend, the developer intentionally removes the admin bar while blocking access to the backend. You would need to address that with them. It is very difficult for us to overcome all attempts by others to block the admin bar from certain users when they block access to the backend.

Many developers believe that the only use for the admin bar is to access the backend. Without recognition of other uses for the admin bar, other than those imagined by the developer, we are limited in what we can accomplish with our plugin to help make it more useful.

If you wish to search out the area where the developer of the other plugin limits access to the admin bar, you can look in the wpuf-functions.php file for “show_admin_bar”.

Hi @sounds,

Thank you for the nice review.

What do you need a plugin like this to do that this one doesn’t do? Just curious.

Thanks

I am wondering if you have looked at this plugin and what it does or if you are just wanting us to enter into the discussion. Let me know.

Thank you.

Hi Again Nate,

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Thanks

Hi Nate,

Thanks for choosing WP Symposium Toolbar. Would it be better if I contact you via your contact form on the site? I will be happy to assist the best I can.
Thanks

Hi nchisley,

Thanks for choosing WP Symposium Toolbar plugin.

Would you mind expounding on the issue?
Are you using a members plugin that provides a frontend profile page? If so, which one?

If that box is left blank it does use the default WordPress backend edit profile link.

Kindly,
Louis

Hi @viriis,

There are a lot of developers of plugins and “Premium” themes who see no use for the toolbar on the frontend. I hope the developer of the WP User Frontend Pro plugin does give the option to Admin for letting the toolbar show.

Thanks for choosing WP Symposium Toolbar.

Hi Alice,

No, you aren’t an idiot, stupid or any of those things. An idiot wouldn’t have figured it out and wouldn’t have known to keep trying. You are an accomplished troubleshooter now. ??

Even after all of the things I have done, I still miss things. You seem to have a fairly complex set-up. Be proud of yourself. You are doing a great job.

Please let us know if we can assist further. Get some rest.

I owe you an apology as well. I intended to take a closer look at it. We have been discussing adding that feature back to the toolbar and I was sent a possible solution to take a look at, but haven’t had time to test it myself. I am going to be doing that in case there is a call for it from someone else before we implement it.

Hi Alice Kaye,

Sorry for the late reply.
I will try and give you a better reply, but it is going to take me a little time. Will a couple days be workable for you?

Hi Alice Kaye,

Are you wanting to make the toolbar completely transparent or just work with the opacity to make it less solid in color?

You can manage the opacity of the toolbar in the Styles tab in two places. There is the “Toolbar” section in the Styles tab where there are two settings for opacity. One is the “Toolbar Opacity” then by “Shadow” on the bottom of that section there is “Opacity”.

Then there is, in the “Dropdown Menus” section of the Styles tab, “Opacity”.

The lower you make the numbers in those boxes, the more transparent the toolbar and the items in the toolbar become.

I hope that helps some.

Thanks for choosing WP Symposium Toolbar.