Admin Bar Editor

Admin Bar Editor is a WordPress plugin that hides, renames, reorders, restyles, and adds items to the admin toolbar — with per-user-role control in the Pro version — so logged-in users stop staring at a cluttered strip of links they never asked for.

What is Admin Bar Editor?

Admin Bar Editor comes from Jewel Theme (trading as Pixar Labs), a WordPress shop founded in 2013 that's best known for WP Adminify and a long Envato/ThemeForest track record. The plugin targets a single, stubborn annoyance: the WordPress toolbar accumulates junk from every installed plugin until it wraps onto two lines and confuses everyone who isn't the site owner. The interface splits into Backend, Frontend, and Advanced tabs where you toggle individual items (WordPress logo, comments, updates, the New menu, plus anything plugins add), drag them into your preferred order, kill the frontend bar entirely, or move the whole thing to the bottom of the screen — all free, via native WordPress hooks with nothing stored in core files. Pro unlocks the parts agencies actually pay for: hiding the bar or specific items per user role or even per username, adding custom top-level links and submenus, renaming items and the ancient 'Howdy' greeting, swapping the WordPress logo for a client's brand, and full color/gradient/dropdown styling. On WordPress.org (where it's listed under the slug 'admin-bar') it holds a 4.3/5 rating from 20 reviews with 3,000+ active installations and around 70,500 total downloads, was updated to v1.1.9 in August 2026, and is tested up to WordPress 7.0.4. Pricing runs $29/$39/$99 per year for 5/15/100 sites, or lifetime licenses at $89/$129/$279, with a $799 unlimited-site bundle that folds in six sibling plugins including WP Adminify.

Key Features

• Item-Level Visibility Toggles — Turn any core toolbar item (WP logo, site name, comments, updates, the New menu, plus plugin-added entries) on or off independently for backend and frontend
• Drag-and-Drop Reordering — Grab toolbar items and drop them into the order you actually work in, with separate saved layouts for backend and frontend
• Frontend Toolbar Kill Switch — Disable the admin bar for all logged-in visitors with one toggle, keeping it for admins only if you want
• Role-Based Hiding (Pro) — Show different toolbars to Subscribers, Customers, Editors, or Shop Managers — with per-username overrides for contractors and VAs
• Custom Links & Submenus (Pro) — Add top-level items and nested submenu entries pointing to any URL, from buried admin pages to external tools and support docs
• Branding & Icon Replacement (Pro) — Swap the WordPress logo and item icons for your own images, and restyle background, gradients, text, dropdowns, and the New button
• Rename Anything (Pro) — Change any menu title and the 'Howdy' greeting to match your brand voice or drop them entirely
• Top-or-Bottom Position — Move the whole toolbar from the top of the screen to a footer-style bar at the bottom, free, with one setting
• Safe, Hook-Based Implementation — Uses native WordPress toolbar APIs, never touches core files, and preserves your configuration through deactivation and reactivation

Who is it for?

• Agencies and freelancers white-labeling client dashboards who want the toolbar to look like their product, not WordPress
• WooCommerce, membership, LMS, and community site owners whose customers log in and see a confusing strip of admin links
• Multi-author editorial teams that want Authors seeing New Post and Edit while Shop Managers keep their WooCommerce shortcuts
• Power users whose toolbar has overflowed onto two lines thanks to plugin clutter
• Anyone who simply wants the toolbar at the bottom of the screen without writing CSS

Who is it NOT for?

• Sites needing true capability-level access control — hiding a link isn't securing it, and you want a roles/capabilities editor instead
• People who just want the bar gone entirely — a one-line snippet or the built-in per-profile setting does that for free
• Buyers who want one tool to rebrand the entire dashboard (login page, menus, widgets) — WP Adminify or ASE cover far more ground
• Organizations requiring enterprise procurement signals — SLAs, security audits, and vendor stability guarantees this small shop can't provide
• Minimalist site owners allergic to plugin dependencies for cosmetic gains