20 Magnificent Free WordPress Admin Bar Widgets

The admin area is the heart of any WordPress-powered website. It’s where everything is controlled and where admin, editors, authors and contributors publish content to posts etc. WordPress added the Admin Bar a while ago to their web based weblogs and now to self hosted weblogs.

We have specially designed this post for the WordPress administrators who are looking for some handy and useful plugins and tools. In this collection, we are presenting 20 free WordPress admin bar widgets. Also, if you manage a WordPress install that has many users you might want to control which users get to see the admin bar or not.

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1. Disable Admin Bar Removal

Disable wordpress admin bar toolbar for all user remove frontend backend code minimize memory consumption speedup loading control panel.

Disable Admin Bar Removal
Disable Admin Bar Removal

2. Multisite Enhancements

When you work quite a bit with WordPress Multisites, sometimes you need more information or menu items.

Multisite Enhancements
Multisite Enhancements

3. AG Custom Admin

All-in-one tool for admin panel customization. Change almost everything: admin menu, dashboard, login page, admin bar etc. Apply admin panel themes.

AG Custom Admin
AG Custom Admin

4. WooCommerce Admin Bar Addition

This plugin adds useful admin links and massive resources for the WooCommerce Shop Plugin to the WordPress Toolbar / Admin Bar.

WooCommerce Admin Bar Addition
WooCommerce Admin Bar Addition

5. WP Admin Bar Effect

Hide or show the desktop bar with a single effect and add a link to site inside sidebar.

WP Admin Bar Effect
WP Admin Bar Effect

6. WP Admin No Show

This plugin will gives the site admin the ability to “blacklist” roles (subscriber, contributor, author, and/or editor) and will redirect all users assiged to any blacklisted roles when they try to access any wp-admin page (is_admin() is true).

WP Admin No Show
WP Admin No Show

7. WordPress Helpers

WordPress Helpers opens up the missing settings you wish were in WordPress.

WordPress Helpers
WordPress Helpers

8. Wp App Studio

Wp App Studio is easy to learn and use design and development tool for creating fully featured custom plugins.

Wp App Studio
Wp App Studio

9. Enhanced Admin Bar with Codex Search

This simple plugin enhances the default WordPress admin bar by adding a new menus that includes search fields for searching the Codex, wpbeginner.com, WordPress support forums, plugins repository, themes repository etc.

Enhanced Admin Bar with Codex Search
Enhanced Admin Bar with Codex Search

10. Multisite Toolbar Additions

This plugin adds a few useful admin links to the WordPress Toolbar / Admin Bar in Multisite or Network installs.

Multisite Toolbar Additions
Multisite Toolbar Additions

11. TimeZoneCalculator

Calculates, displays and automatically updates times and dates in different timezones with respect to daylight saving.

TimeZoneCalculator
TimeZoneCalculator

12. Hide Admin Bar

Simple plugin used to remove the Admin Bar in WordPress.

Hide Admin Bar
Hide Admin Bar

13. Admin Bar Toggle

Admin Bar toggle adds a toggle switch to show/hide the admin bar on the front-end. This is much less intrusive, but still allows you to use all the useful features of the admin bar.

Admin Bar Toggle
Admin Bar Toggle

14. Remove Disable Admin Bar Removal

Remove wordpress admin bar toolbar for all user disable frontend backend code minimize memory consumption speedup loading control panel.

Remove Disable Admin Bar Removal
Remove Disable Admin Bar Removal

15. Disable Admin Bar and ToolBar

Disable wordpress admin bar and toolbar for all users on frontend and backend with new unified coding.

Disable Admin Bar and ToolBar
Disable Admin Bar and ToolBar

16. WP Scheduled Posts

WP Scheduled Posts’ is a very simple but super useful plugin. It will enable a widget in dashboard or in admin bar which will show all future Scheduled post.

WP Scheduled Posts
WP Scheduled Posts

17. BuddyPress Custom Profile Menu

Finally a plugin to fully customize the BuddyPress profile menu. This plugin enables you to append regular WordPress custom menus to BuddyPress.

BuddyPress Custom Profile Menu
BuddyPress Custom Profile Menu

18. BuddyPress Toolbar

This small and lightweight plugin just adds a lot BuddyPress related resources to your toolbar / admin bar. Also links to all setting/ tab pages of the plugin are added making life for community managers/ administrators a lot easier.

BuddyPress Toolbar
BuddyPress Toolbar

19. Easy Digital Downloads Toolbar

This plugin adds useful admin links and resources for the Easy Digital Downloads plugin to the WordPress Toolbar / Admin Bar.

Easy Digital Downloads Toolbar
Easy Digital Downloads Toolbar

20. Hide Admin Bar 2013

This plugin removes the standard WordPress admin bar from the front end of your WordPress site, whilst keeping it on the admin side.

Hide Admin Bar 2013
Hide Admin Bar 2013