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Hide the admin bar for customers

Lose the gray WordPress toolbar for everyone but admins — a cleaner, more professional frontend for your members.

  • Cleaner frontend
  • Admins keep it
  • One toggle
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The WordPress admin toolbar on the frontend looks unprofessional to logged-in customers. This toolkit toggle removes it for non-administrators (admins always keep it). It’s purely cosmetic — it doesn’t change capabilities or block wp-admin. This recipe hides it.

What you get
  • Non-admin customers no longer see the WP toolbar.
  • Administrators keep the toolbar for their own work.
  • A cleaner, more branded member experience.
  • No capability or role changes.
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The exact configuration

Enter these values and you have the setup live. Every field maps to a real ArraySubs setting.

SettingValue
Hide admin bar for non-admin usersSettings → Toolkit → Admin BarOn (default Off)
AdministratorsBehaviourAlways see the admin bar regardless
ScopeBehaviourFrontend display only; doesn’t block wp-admin
Best for

When to use this setup

Membership sites and portals
Any store wanting a polished frontend
Pairing with wp-admin lockdown
Set up

Set it up in 2 steps

A step-by-step guide drawn from the ArraySubs user manual. Open the linked page for the full walkthrough and screenshots.

  1. Open Toolkit settings

    Go to ArraySubs → Settings → Toolkit → Admin Bar.

    Toolkit Settings

  2. Enable the toggle

    Turn on Hide admin bar for non-admin users and Save Settings.

    Admin Bar Visibility
From the manual

This recipe is built from these ArraySubs user-manual guides:

Good to know

Notes & edge cases

Cosmetic only — it doesn’t remove capabilities or stop a user typing /wp-admin. Pair with Admin Dashboard Access to block that.
Administrators always see the admin bar.
Affects the frontend view only.
Built with

Modules behind this recipe

The ArraySubs modules this setup relies on.

Free

Admin Bar Visibility

Hide the WordPress frontend toolbar for customers while administrators keep their normal shortcuts.

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FAQ

Questions, answered

No. It only hides the frontend toolbar. To redirect non-staff away from wp-admin, use the Admin Dashboard Access recipe.

No. Administrators always keep the admin bar regardless of this setting.
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