This Wordpress plugin will allow you to easily take control of the wordpress toolbar.
As of April 2026, Take Control Of The WordPress Toolbar is a WordPress menu plugin with 30 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.
This WordPress plugin will allow you to easily take control of the wordpress toolbar.
The WordPress toolbar was introduced in version 3.1 and allows you to have quick links to logged in users on your WordPress site.
The problem with the WordPress toolbar is that it comes with a number a default WordPress links which you will never use like these:
– WordPress.org
– About WordPress
– WordPress Document
– Support Forums
– Feedback
– Site name link
– View site link
– Plugin update link
– Comments link
– New content link
– WordPress my account link
– Change howdy text
This plugin will allow you to easily remove any of the following links from your toolbar.
The added extra in this plugin is that it allows you to easily add…
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
1.4 – Update the howdy text on the toolbar
v1.1 – Update link meta target
Wordpress menu has an inbuilt feature to apply target _blank on links on the menu items.
This change uses this setting when appling target attribute to toolbar links.
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