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Hi, will the WP taskbar always show at the top of the webpage for members? On My website it does, as i made a "test user" If so how do i get rid of it?
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Can't this be turned off in WP options now? or with a config directive? Or perhaps you need one of the many, many WP plugins that get rid of the nasty thing. Either way you will need to look for the answer with WP.
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If admin goes to the edit user from the Users menu there is a check box to check if the user wants to see the Toolbar or uncheck to not see the Toolbar on the frontend. However, if the user goes into their profile page and checks that box, they will see the toolbar. If you block users from going to the WP Profile page with some other plugin keeping them away from the admin area, they cannot access that check box.
However, there is also a way to make that toolbar your friend, Yellow Shordfish. It doesn't have to be a "nasty thing".. lol
I happen to have been involved in the development of a plugin that allows the admin to completely modify that Toolbar to function as a true "nav bar". The admin can add whatever they want, remove whatever they want and style the Toolbar anyway they want, to match their website. The plugin is called WP Symposium Toolbar. It's free. It's on WordPress.org and there is no upsell involved to get more functionality. It's just a great tool (if I do say so myself) to turn that ugly, nasty, virtually useless "task bar" into something that is completely a part of a website, giving the ability to remove all WP items and placing your own items wherever you want. The plugin also does NOT add anything the developer wants in the Toolbar. It gives complete control over to the admin.
I know it says WP Symposium, but the plugin does not need WP Symposium to be completely functional. It just adds some things if you do have WP Symposium active.
I hope you don't mind me referring to the plugin, but there are a lot of people who also don't like the big theme nav bars that take up valuable space on webpages which could be used for content. I happen to be one of those people.
Some people actually prefer having a nav bar that stays in one place and is small, and out of the way.. If my comment here is considered inappropriate, please feel free to remove it.
There are also plugins that will disable the toolbar completely for those who either do not know it can become a useful tool, or just don't want to bother with it. Just be careful with some plugins that actually remove the code for the "task bar". That can have security implications, according to what I have seen.
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You are welcome Marc Wright,
I hope I didn't step where I shouldn't have..
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Central Geek: No - of course we don't mind one bit. Always good to get some input and ideas from others and information on other plugins is always welcomed.
I think the admin bar - and I really DO think it very nasty and ill-conceived - falls into the same bracket as the default ability for registered site users to get to the admin dashboard. One of the most common questions we used to get on these forums was over that issue and from people who - having set up a website requiring users needing to become members - were appalled that the first thing that happened to them when the logged in was to be sent to what they saw as the 'admin' and NOT something they wanted their users to see. Indeed, the vast majority prefer to hide the simple fact that their site is a WordPress site - something which is explicit, I believe, in most other site building frameworks.
For me, this has always belied the notion that the WordPress development and design team truly see WP as more than a simple blogging platform - they do not seem to ever really accept the power and CMS capability of WP and I believe a lot of potential users have been put off by some of this. The serious 'corporate' IT guy looking at WP for the first time sees his user being directed to the dashboard, the admin bar being shown on the public site and that damn silly 'howdy' message... and many times loads up Drupal or Joomla instead!
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