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Hide Admin Bar matters only if the evidence supports a paid workflow around keeping client admin areas controlled, understandable, and safe to maintain, not a list of isolated fixes. The current commercial thesis is: Client admin changes, notices, hidden settings, and role confusion create support work and risky site handoffs. The entry wedge is to audit admin settings, notices, client-safe controls, and ownership of site-management actions.

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Opportunity Summary

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Build an admin and client-governance operations plugin for agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators: Client admin changes, notices, hidden settings, and role confusion create support work and risky site handoffs. The first wedge is to audit admin settings, notices, client-safe controls, and ownership of site-management actions.

The unmet need is not the individual complaint. It is the recurring business workflow: Client admin changes, notices, hidden settings, and role confusion create support work and risky site handoffs. Current stage: commercial watchlist.

Competitors

12 shown
Role Based Redirect 2.0K installs · 4.8
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 63.8weakness 10/16pain/praise

Pain still appears around support, missing feature despite praise for quality, reliable.

Hide Admin Bar 20.0K installs · 4.5
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-100.0%momentum 51.7weakness 16/28pain/praise

Pain still appears around bugs, compatibility despite praise for quality, reliable.

Disable Toolbar 1.0K installs · 4.9
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 42.8weakness 2/17pain/praise

Pain still appears around compatibility, missing feature despite praise for easy, quality.

Hide Admin Toolbar 9.0K installs · 5.0
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 40.8weakness 1/4pain/praise

Pain still appears around bugs, compatibility despite praise for easy, missing feature.

WP Hide Admin Bar 200 installs · 5.0
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-100.0%momentum 32.2weakness 0/2pain/praise

Weakness evidence: stale update history.

MM Admin Bar 100 installs · 5.0
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-100.0%momentum 15.8weakness 0/2pain/praise

Owned praise to avoid copying: reliable, quality.

complaint Broken with WP 4.7.2

Broken with WP 4.7.2: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Broken with WP 4.7.2 Hi Updated to WP 4.7.2 and this plugin broke immediately and as there seems to be no sign of any resolution, all my users can now access the admin bar (!!) and I am going to have to get something more reliable.
mixed Bug report: Edit page links to a different page

Bug report: Edit page links to a different page: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus · Bug report: Edit page links to a different page Greeting, Lately the front end “edit page” button has been pointing to a different page.
mixed Admin Bar is Opening Page at Login

Admin Bar is Opening Page at Login: users show security, bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus · Admin Bar is Opening Page at Login Whenever i login to WordPress now, after installing the Admin Bar plugin, the Opening Screen is the Admin bar Settings page, and no longer my home page?
mixed Does Not Work For My Multisite

Does Not Work For My Multisite: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Does Not Work For My Multisite I have tried Network Activating and also activating individually.
mixed “Edit Website” entry gone

“Edit Website” entry gone: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus · The link in the front end admin bar is pointing to /wp-admin/site-editor.php now.
mixed The code is well-written, but there are two serious issues

The code is well-written, but there are two serious issues: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus · The code is well-written, but there are two serious issues Hi: The code is well-written, but there are two serious issues: It affects the main WordPress menu, making it impossible to display multiple submenus properly.
complaint doesn't work for me

doesn't work for me: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Hello, what kind of issues are you having?
complaint Shows admin bar for guests

Shows admin bar for guests: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · Hi, In next update, I will add this feature as well.
neutral Improve I18N Issues (Based on 4.1.0)

Improve I18N Issues (Based on 4.1.0): users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · Improve I18N Issues (Based on 4.1.0) For getting better I18N, I modified some codes as the following.
neutral Error when viewing own profile

Error when viewing own profile: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

PowerUp – Admin Tools (Login/Logout Redirects, Scripts & Comments Control) · Error when viewing own profile With the Powerup plugin installed and activated, when attempting to view ones own profile WP errors with “There has been a critical error on this website.
neutral Large Spam Ad On WordPress Dashboard

Large Spam Ad On WordPress Dashboard: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · Large Spam Ad On WordPress Dashboard I logged in to my site dashboard and there was a large ad for WPUltimaKit.
complaint Conflict with Social connect plugins

Conflict with Social connect plugins: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Conflict with Social connect plugins Hi!
complaint Cant get to work with 4.6

Cant get to work with 4.6: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · What kind of issues are you seeing with it?
complaint After an update, the admin bar appeared for all users.

After an update, the admin bar appeared for all users.: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · I had to uninstall this plugin.
complaint Hiding for Admin, when Admin is not checked…?

Hiding for Admin, when Admin is not checked…?: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Disable Toolbar · Hi, I just installed this on a site, and after checking off several user roles: Customer (WooCommerce), Subscriber, Give Donor, Give Subscriber, Affiliate, it’s hiding the admin bar for me, even though I’m an Administrator, and that is not checked.
complaint Can’t log into my site at all now – 404 errors

Can’t log into my site at all now – 404 errors: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Toolbar · Can’t log into my site at all now – 404 errors I installed “Hide Admin Toolbar” plugin.
complaint hid admin bar even though I’m admin :(

hid admin bar even though I’m admin :(: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · 🙁 Hi, I understand your problem, It’s not an issue with the plugin.
mixed Hide admin bar for Customer Role

Hide admin bar for Customer Role: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Hide admin bar for Customer Role Hello – I’ve the memberpress plugin installed on quantumstat.com.
mixed Admin Bar Displaying for All Users Except Administrator

Admin Bar Displaying for All Users Except Administrator: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Admin Bar Displaying for All Users Except Administrator Hello, I’m hoping you can help me with a very strange and annoying problem I’m having with a new site I’m building… For some reason I cannot disable the WordPress Admin Bar from being displayed on the front-end of the site, even with your plugin in use.
mixed Hide admin bar doesn’t work with multisite logged in user

Hide admin bar doesn’t work with multisite logged in user: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

PowerUp – Admin Tools (Login/Logout Redirects, Scripts & Comments Control) · We’ve noted the issue with the admin bar on multisite installations .
mixed Toolbar showing even though it shouldn’t

Toolbar showing even though it shouldn’t: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · Toolbar showing even though it shouldn’t I’ve activated the plugin and specified in the settings that the toolbar should be hidden from logged in Subscribers.
mixed You are one step away activation error

You are one step away activation error: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · You are one step away activation error I installed the plugin.
mixed Admin-bar is always hidden

Admin-bar is always hidden: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · When I use the reset-link it appears again for admin and then vanishes again if I hit one of the option.
complaint Exclusion Based Redirects

Exclusion Based Redirects: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Role Based Redirect · Exclusion Based Redirects This was originally a review, but a mod removed it because they thought it was too support like.
complaint Cant get to work with 4.6

Cant get to work with 4.6: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar From Front End · Cant get to work with 4.6 Hi have installed and tried with 4.6.
complaint Does not work on WP 4.7.3

Does not work on WP 4.7.3: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Does not work on WP 4.7.3 Hello This plugin is not working on 4.7.3 Can you please help me?
complaint hides bar to admins too!

hides bar to admins too!: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Installed the plugin, but it hides the bar to admins as well.
complaint Disable the admin bar

Disable the admin bar: users show compatibility, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Disable the admin bar I installed the hide admin bar plugin and did not disable the admin bar.
complaint Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.0.6)

Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.0.6): users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Role Based Hide Adminbar · Improve I18N Issues (Based on 1.0.6) Some UI strings can be internationalized, but they are not currently.
complaint Works on and off

Works on and off: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Works on and off This plug in works fine for a while then stops giving “me” the user access.
complaint Stopped working with WP update 4.7

Stopped working with WP update 4.7: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Stopped working with WP update 4.7 The plugin was working like a charm until the recent WordPress update to v.
complaint Just use CSS

Just use CSS: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Just use CSS #wpadminbar {display:none} works just as well using CSS.
complaint Zero functionality unless you pay – don’t bother!

Zero functionality unless you pay – don’t bother!: users show missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus · Total waste of time.
mixed Your Site is Experiencing a Technical Issue

Your Site is Experiencing a Technical Issue: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · Your Site is Experiencing a Technical Issue On updating the plugin today to 3.5.1 we received the following error message from our client.
mixed Deprecated

Deprecated: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus · Deprecated Deprecated : str_getcsv(): the $escape parameter must be provided as its default value will change in /…/wp-content/plugins/admin-bar/Inc/Classes/Pro_Upgrade.php on line 382 Deprecated : str_getcsv(): the $escape parameter must be provided as its default value will change in /…/wp-content/plugins/admin-bar/Inc/Classes/Pro_Upgrade.php on line 382 H
mixed My user name is duplicated on the top right profile tab

My user name is duplicated on the top right profile tab: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus · My user name is duplicated on the top right profile tab I installed your plugin to hide some elements but I also saw that my user name appears duplicated on the top right profile tab and also some elements such as Udraftsplus was not detected.
mixed Plugin cannot be found in WordPress Backend Plugin Installation anymore

Plugin cannot be found in WordPress Backend Plugin Installation anymore: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar · Plugin cannot be found in WordPress Backend Plugin Installation anymore Hello there, unfortunately this plugin cannot be found in WordPress Backend Plugin Installation anymore.
mixed New version Error

New version Error: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · New version Error Here is a video of what is happening when I updated to the latest version.
mixed “Templates & Styles” entry gone

“Templates & Styles” entry gone: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Admin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus · i created a new topic with the correct entry name Our team is familiar with the issue and it’s already resolved in our beta version.
mixed New update messes up my navigation menu

New update messes up my navigation menu: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · I use Divi Theme, which I used to make my navigation menu.