Better Admin Bar
Better Admin Bar
Description
The WordPress Admin Bar reimagined. Replace the default WordPress admin bar and provide logged-in users the user experience they deserve.
Better Admin Bar allows you to quickly navigate to the key areas of your website like the theme customizer, your WordPress dashboard and edit the current page/post/custom post type.
🚀 Features
- Add an intuitive Quick Access Panel to your site
- Hide Admin Bar for all users or specific user roles
- Auto-hide the WordPress Admin Bar
- Remove 32px top gap
- Fix overflowing menu items in the Admin Bar
- Hide Admin Bar from smaller screens
- Change the opacity of the Admin Bar
- Change the opacity of the Admin Bar (on hover)
For more features, check out Better Admin Bar PRO.
🏆 Better Admin Bar PRO
Better Admin Bar PRO brings super-powers to your Quick Access Panel with features such as:
- Custom Links
- Page Builder Support
- Limit User Role Access
- Custom Post Type Support
- Sign-Out Widget
- WordPress Multisite Support
- WooCommerce Support
Learn more about Better Admin Bar PRO
What’s next?
If you like Better Admin Bar, you will love our other, free WordPress products:
- Page Builder Framework – A fast & minimalistic WordPress theme designed for the new WordPress era.
- Ultimate Dashboard – The #1 WordPress plugin to customize your WordPress dashboard and admin area.
Installation
- Download the better-admin-bar.zip file to your computer.
- Unzip the file.
- Upload the swift-control folder to your
/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins widget in WordPress.
Screenshots
Quick Access Panel
Quick Access Panel Settings Page
Admin Bar Settings Page
Reviews
funziona 🙂
By 
funziona bene da frontend 🙂
Easy to understand, configure, and use
By 
I love this plugin!
It's easy to understand, easy to configure, and easy to use. Makes moving around on my blog from page to page so much more convenient.
Keep on keepin' on ...
Excellent little plugin
By 
I didn't even know I needed this plugin, it really helps on sites with sticky header.
Simple and so helpful!
By 
So simple to set up, customize, and this is so helpful for dev work on WP sites! Thank you much!!
Advertised functionality works fine! Even Role-specific to some degree
By 
Pros & Cons
++ The given options allow a lot of tweaking regarding look and feel.
+ You don't have a full role-specific setup, but I assume the specificity provided will be sufficient for most simple WordPress setups:
• Hide admin bar for all users
• Hide admin bar for all users except admin
• Combined with "Auto-hide admin bar" you can achieve a lot of specific behaviors.
See "Example Setups" below.
+ Works reliable.
- There's a minor bug which to me is a "hidden feature actually" 😉:
You can already click the admin bar items while the hover-delay has not yet passed and therefore the revealing of the bar has not yet kicked in. Not at the blank part of the menu, but at the positions where the click-able items are.
The developer is aware of this and suggested to enable the option "Fix multiline admin bar". But in my case it didn't change the behavior. As said, I do not mind, b/c for me it's not a bug but a feature.
Example Setups
1) Tweak to get zero distraction and no interference with the normal top menu:
• Admin bar opacity (inactive) to 0%.
• Top hover area height (if autohide): 4px
• Hover delay: 2000ms
2) Hide admin bar for all users except admin ON + Auto-hide admin bar ON
+ Normal users see nothing.
+ Nevertheless they can login and logout by direct URL access.
+ Admin can reveal the menu with hovering.
3) Hide admin bar for all users except admin OFF + Auto-hide admin bar ON
+ Nobody sees the menu by default as auto-hide is on.
+ Those with special knowhow of the hover zone (4px + 2000ms) can access the menu if in need.
++ The admin knows this anyhow and it’s not making her/him less productive, with the proper settings.
++ Editors, lectors, etc can be instructed. Perfect!
Excellent
By 
A very useful thing. I make the admin bar invisible, so its black background doesn't interfere with the design of the header anymore. Yet I know that the bar is still there, available on hover.
The adjustible delay on hover - what a bright idea! Sometimes I need a longer delay if there are links on the very top of the header and I need their reaction to come first on hover, before the admin bar to appear.
Literally the best thing in the world
By 
I’ve been using WordPress for decades it seems. How have I only found out about this now? It’s incredible... I love the auto hide and tap near the top (just under the address bar) to bring it back. I rarely need the admin bar but it’s nice to have it available, on demand, when I do. Thanks for an awesome plug-in!
I wish I knew about it sooner
By 
Much more convenient than adding custom admin bar CSS for each theme I make– thanks!
This has become a great plugin
By 
I had previously expressed reservations about this plugin. The plugin author addressed my concerns and it has become a terrifically helpful plugin.
1) It is not responsive. Although WP makes the WP admin bar larger for tablet-size (portrait) pages and smaller phone-size pages, so that the icons are more touch-friendly, this plugin does not adjust for that. The offset of the "hidden" admin bar remains tied to the standard 32px WP admin bar even when the larger admin bar is present on mobile devices. Therefore the 'hide on hover' feature does not work right on small screens; it does not offset enough to hide, and rather only hides half of it. This should not be too hard to fix - I think that the style rules that get added to the head need to have a breakpoint media query - but it remains an issue. Problem solved!
2) Although I've posted about this on the plugin's forum, I've gotten no response at all for several weeks now. The plugin author responded to my questions and suggestions; thanks.
3) Not as important, but another feature that would also be helpful: a small delay requiring that a mouse hover over the top pixels for a second or so before the admin bar is shown. This would prevent the admin bar from appearing every single time that you "reach" your mouse for something above the page such as another tab or browser control. The 'hidden' admin bar is forever flashing into view as I mouse towards my tabs, back-button, address bar and etc. The author took my suggestion and implemented it! Thanks!
I have happily changed my rating to 5 stars. This is a very helpful plugin if your site uses a fixed position or sticky header or navigation.
I'll be happy to be able to change this to 4 or 5 stars if these issues are addressed.
Perfect
By 
Does exactly what I needed it for and more.
Great job with the auto hide, this plus a 0% opacity works GREAT!
Changelog
4.1.4
- Fixed: HTML entity escaping in inline JavaScript and CSS that broke the Auto Hide Admin Bar feature
4.1.3
- Fixed: Various code improvements and escaping issues for better security and coding standards compliance
4.1.2
- Tested up to WordPress 6.8
4.1.1
- Fixed: Adjust the animation in the quick access panel preview when items are reordered
4.1
- New: Preview the quick access panel from within the WordPress backend to see all your changes in real-time
4.0.7
- Tested up to WordPress 6.4
4.0.6
- Tested up to WordPress 6.3
4.0.5
- Tested up to WordPress 6.1
4.0.4
- Fixed: Prefix icon picker handle to not interfere with BuddyBoss’ icon-picker.js
4.0.3
- The Launch offer for Better Admin Bar PRO is about to expire. There are only a few coupons left! Get Better Admin Bar PRO at 50% off!
- Tweak: Make admin notice match our branding
4.0.2
- Minor tweaks & improvements
4.0.1
- Fixed: Admin bar styling was applied when in customizer
4.0
- New: Quick Access Panel
- Tweak: Improved “Auto-Hide Admin Bar” setting
- Tweak: Improved admin bar settings page