The admin bar is the toolbar at the top of your screen when logged into your WordPress.com account. This guide explains the options available in the admin bar and how to make changes to it.
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The Admin Bar appears when you are logged into your WordPress.com account and visiting your site or any other WordPress.com hosted websites. The admin bar does not appear at the top of your site to other visitors (unless they are also logged into a WordPress.com account.)
The admin bar appears as a black bar at the top of the screen:
The options appearing from left to right are:
- W icon: This will take you to your Sites list, where you’ll find the main menu for managing your sites.
- Site Title: Visit the homepage or dashboard of your primary site.
- + New: A shortcut to quickly create a new post, media item, page, or user.
- Reader: Visit the Reader to discover new blogs and keep up with the latest posts from sites you follow.
- Help Center: Click the question mark icon in the toolbar to access support from WordPress.com.
- Notifications: Click the bell icon to access your account’s notifications area.
- Profile: Click the avatar icon to visit your profile, access your account settings, manage your purchases, and more.
The admin toolbar does not appear at the top of your site when viewed by your website’s visitors.
There is no setting to completely remove the admin bar, but you can choose to show or hide the toolbar when viewing the site yourself with the following steps:
- Set your admin interface to WP-Admin (classic style).
- In WP-Admin, navigate to Users → Profile.
- Scroll down to the “Toolbar” setting.
- Tick or untick the box labeled “Show Toolbar when viewing site.”
