Allows you to hide the top admin bar in WP 3.2+ on the public site by changing user preferences en masse for both existing and new users.
As of April 2026, Clean Admin Bar Removal is a WordPress toolbar plugin with 50 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Show Current Template.
Clean Admin Bar Removal offers a simple solution to a small problem in WordPress 3.2 and 3.3. In these new versions, the top “admin bar” is shown on the public site by default for all users. This has been inconvenient on some of the sites we manage, where the WordPress admin area is otherwise “behind the scenes” for some logged in users, or where the top admin bar is incompatible with the site’s layout.
To solve this problem, Clean Admin Bar Removal disables the toolbar in existing users’ preferences and changes the default setting for new users. Once a site administrator installs the plugin, they can choose which behavior to use on their site by user role. Users can restore the admin bar in their individual preferences by choosing “Show Toolbar when v…
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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