WordPress Admin Bar Tricks

You probably already noticed the new Admin Bar, which comes as default with WordPress 3.1. It is like the one they have for wordpress.com blogs.

WordPress Admin Bar is actually a 28-pixel high shortcut menu bar that floats on the top of your blog when you browse it. Of course it comes up only when you are logged it as admin in your blog. It helps you to access important admin functions like Go to Dashboard, add/edit a post or page or link. It also has shortcuts to settings, plugins and themes.

Wordpress Admin Bar

Here are two handy tricks you can apply to your Admin Bar..

Disable WordPress Admin Bar
On WordPress 3.1, admin bar is enabled by default. It is really annoying to some people (including me) to have that bar at the top of the blog page all the time. WordPress have two options for the Admin Bar. You can choose to either disable it completely or just have it there at the Dashboard, which is useless in my opinion.

The setting is located at the Profile Settings under Users (Users > Your Profile). The setting is profile based, which means if your blog has more than one admin, each of them can set it as per their choice. You need to uncheck the box called “When Viewing Site” to disable it for you.

Admin Bar Settings

Stick the Admin Bar at Bottom
If you are too annoyed with the Admin Bar, but do not want to disable it completely, you can stick it at the bottom of the page. Just put these lines in you theme’s function.php file.

<?php
function stick_admin_bar_to_bottom_css() {

echo "
<style type='text/css'>;
#wpadminbar {top: auto !important;bottom: 0;}
#wpadminbar .quicklinks .menupop ul {bottom: 28px;}
</style>;
";
}

add_action('admin_head', 'stick_admin_bar_to_bottom_css');
add_action('wp_head', 'stick_admin_bar_to_bottom_css');

?>

Admin Bar At Bottom

Thanks to coenjacobs for this code. He also wrote a plugin for this if you do not want to mess up with the codes. The plugin can be found here at the WordPress Plugin Repositary.