Wordpress 3.1 – How To Remove or Disable the Admin Bar

Published on Thursday, February 24, 2011 by Lucca 13 Comments

WordPress 3.1 – How To Remove or Disable the Admin Bar

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Ian Dore

April 23, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Hi there,

great tip but where exactly in the file should I drop in the code:

add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’ );

I’m no coding type of fella!!

cheers,

ian

Lucca Reply:
April 25th, 2011 at 8:28 pm

Anywhere after the first <?php tag.

Ashley Reply:
August 23rd, 2011 at 8:42 am

Here Ian,

Copy and paste this into a blank.php document and save it in you plugins folder, if you do it this way it will work with all your themes not just one

Ashley Reply:
August 23rd, 2011 at 8:42 am

Ashley Reply:
August 23rd, 2011 at 8:43 am

/*
Plugin name: Remove admin bar
*/

add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’ );

It didn’t copy so remember to add the php tags at the top and bottom

Josh Reply:
January 18th, 2012 at 5:51 pm

Works too if you just put it in your theme functions.php

UKFreeListings

May 24, 2011 at 2:45 am

That is much better. Just one thing though, I still have a narrow gray bar at the top of the page. Anyone know how to get rid of it?

UKFreeListings Reply:
May 24th, 2011 at 2:58 am

Woops, gray bar was mine – fixed it.

Amy

June 21, 2011 at 5:13 pm

Thanks for this, I didn’t want that admin bar on the front page so I added this code to the front-page.php template. Worked like a charm!

Rahul

July 6, 2011 at 9:05 am

Thanks this is helpful to me

Go To “Users” and uncheck the box next to “Show Admin Bar”

Daniel Watson

January 16, 2012 at 8:47 am

Hi,
There are a few plugins available to do this for you, BUT they will not be as efficient as putting the code directly into your header.php which is the most efficient placement as it only loads for front end pages, or in to your functions.php file which is the given standard. However, you can use Plugins like: Admin Bar Disabler, Custom Admin Bar or Admin Bar Removal for this.

Automotive Social Network

November 7, 2012 at 4:13 pm

If there some plugin for Buddypress to dissable such admin bar and leave Buddybar working?

Please any opinions…