Title: Hide Admin Bar
Author: David Vongries
Published: <strong>Fevral 24, 2011</strong>
Last modified: Noyabr 4, 2025

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# Hide Admin Bar

 By [David Vongries](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidvongries/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hide-admin-bar.1.0.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/#installation)
 * [Development](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-bar/)

## Description

Hides the Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1+.

**New! You can now hide the WordPress admin bar for specific user roles!**

### What’s next?

If you like Hide Admin Bar, you will love our other, free WordPress products:

 * **[Better Admin Bar](https://betteradminbar.com/?utm_source=hide_admin_bar&utm_medium=repository&utm_campaign=bab)**–
   The plugin to make your clients enjoy WordPress. It replaces the default admin
   bar to provide the best possible user experience when editing & navigating a 
   website.
 * **[Page Builder Framework](https://wp-pagebuilderframework.com/?utm_source=hide_admin_bar&utm_medium=repository&utm_campaign=wpbf)**–
   A fast & minimalistic WordPress theme designed for the new WordPress era.
 * **[Ultimate Dashboard](https://ultimatedashboard.io/?utm_source=hide_admin_bar&utm_medium=repository&utm_campaign=udb)**–
   The #1 WordPress plugin to customize your WordPress dashboard and admin area.

## Installation

 1. Download the hide-admin-bar.zip file to your computer.
 2. Unzip the file.
 3. Upload the hide-admin-bar folder to your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 4. Activate the plugin through the _Plugins_ widget in WordPress.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Très bonne extension](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tres-bonne-extension-51/)󠁿

 [Wilm39](https://profiles.wordpress.org/netbois/) Mart 28, 2026

Excellent travail pour cette extension légère et fort pratique.

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### 󠀁[Lovely plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lovely-plugin-76/)󠁿

 [oberstlynild](https://profiles.wordpress.org/oberstlynild/) Oktabr 6, 2025

Pff, someone left a 1 star review just because you easily can fix it with CSS. Cmon.
The plugin does what it says without hassle. Clean 5 star from me. I would like 
to add a feedback here too: In the settings you can hide the admin panel for specific
user roles – would it be possible to implement hiding the admin panel for specific
usernames?

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### 󠀁[Good to go with BuddyPress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-to-go-with-bb-press/)󠁿

 [yesnotes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yesnotes/) Iyul 21, 2024

My problem was me – after installing BuddyPress – that I had two login options –
the wp-one and the BBpress one. In order not to confuse my new visitors – with that
plugin I was able to disable the Wordpress-plugin.

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### 󠀁[Funciona](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/funciona-81/)󠁿

 [chris1alba](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chris1alba/) Yanvar 19, 2022

Solo lo instalas y listo. 10/10

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### 󠀁[Super Easy Plugin : No complications!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-easy-plugin-no-complications/)󠁿

 [Hari](https://profiles.wordpress.org/haribonda/) Aprel 6, 2021

So many plugins want to do a million different functions. Not this one. It just 
does one thing, but it does it well.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[works PERFECTLY … so simple](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-perfectly-so-simple-2/)󠁿

 [James Revillini](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jrevillini/) Yanvar 19, 2021

install and you’re good!

 [ Read all 30 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-bar/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Hide Admin Bar” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ David Vongries ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidvongries/)
 *   [ Shelby DeNike ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sdenike/)

“Hide Admin Bar” has been translated into 9 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hide-admin-bar/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Hide Admin Bar” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hide-admin-bar)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-admin-bar/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hide-admin-bar/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hide-admin-bar/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hide-admin-bar/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.1 – June 05, 2025

 * Tested up to WordPress 6.8

#### 1.0.1 – May 10, 2024

 * Tested up to WordPress 6.5

#### 1.0 – December 18, 2023

 * New: You can now hide the admin bar for specific user roles

#### 0.5 – December 10, 2023

 * Thank you for using Hide Admin Bar and welcome to a new chapter! We have taken
   over the Hide Admin Bar plugin from Shelby and are going to introduce some great
   new features to the plugin in the near future. Stay tuned!

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **5 oy ago**
 *  Active installations **20 000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/),
   [English (New Zealand)](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/),
   [English (South Africa)](https://en-za.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/),
   [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/),
   [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/),
   [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/) va [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hide-admin-bar)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[admin bar](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin-bar/)
   [hidden](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hidden/)[hide](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hide/)
   [hide admin bar](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hide-admin-bar/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://uz.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  26 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-bar/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-bar/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-bar/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-bar/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  4 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-bar/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-bar/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ David Vongries ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidvongries/)
 *   [ Shelby DeNike ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sdenike/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-admin-bar/)