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SimpleBar – Admin Bar Customiser

Customise the Admin Bar and Admin Menu colours. Per‑role: hide core items, add custom links, and reorder (best‑effort).

By Luke Dunsmore·Roles·Free
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·0 active installs·Updated 3 months ago
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As of April 2026, SimpleBar is a WordPress roles plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 161 times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Top alternative: Members – Membership & User Role Editor….

0/5Rating
0active installs
161total downloads
1 yearsince 2025

Overview

A free plugin that lets you easily customize the admin bar and side menu. Change colours, add your own links, hide elements or use drag and drop to reorder them.

SimpleBar gives you:

  • Colours for Admin Bar (front‑end & admin) and the left Admin Menu. Change text, icon, and background/hover/current item colours.
  • Per‑role controls: hide common core nodes, add custom links with drag & drop order, and optional preferred order of top‑level items.

SimpleBar is free and open-source (FOSS) – you can find the GitHub repo here: https://github.com/lukedunsmoto/simplebar-admin-bar-customizer

Notes

  • Reordering is best‑effort. WordPress and plugins may add nodes after our hook runs.
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Compatibility

WordPress6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.4+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

2.0.0

Rebuild with role‑based links + colours.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Luke DunsmoreLuke Dunsmore
Plugin Info
Version
2.0.0
Last Updated
Dec 23, 2025
WP Requires
6.0+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
0
Downloads
161
Added
Dec 23, 2025
Business
Free

Tags

rolescolourstoolbaradmin baradmin menu

Developer

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Luke Dunsmore
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