Description

Add 3 new menu locations to the WordPress toolbar so you can quickly and easily create your own custom toolbar menus using the built in WordPress menus page.
Supports multi level and works seamlessly with the existing toolbar menus.

Locations

First menu location is under the ‘Site Name’ menu dropdown on the left side.
Second menu location is along the main toolbar.
Third menu location is under the ‘Howdy / My Account’ dropdown.
Super simple to use, just like building any other menu in WordPress using the menus page.
No settings, just ‘plug and play’.

Features

Simple toolbar menu customization using WordPress menus
Seamless integration with the existing WordPress menus
No Settings, just ‘plug and play’

Feedback

I am open to your suggestions and feedback – Thanks for checking out this plugin!
Hit me up via the support forums or my website
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Translations

English – default, always included
Your translation? – Just send it in

Note: This plugin is localized/translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the awesome “Codestyling Localization” plugin and for validating the “Poedit Editor”.

Additional Info

Idea Behind / Philosophy: This is something that I have found super useful when it comes to customizing WordPress. I have been writing custom menus for quite a while and realised there is not much out there like this. No more code snippets, copy pasting or including files, simply install the plugin and away you go using the built in WordPress menus. A simple but powerful plugin to give you more customization powers over the admin toolbar.

Future Features

More power over menu locations with options to pick which locations you want to use and the menu order in relation to existing WordPress menus.
Options page to remove other standard toolbar menu items.
(you can uncomment these in the code now if you’re keen 😉
Ability to change the WordPress “Howdy” welcome message

Screenshots

3 new toolbar menu locations added to your existing locations.
You can see the new locations below when creating your menus.
Example main toolbar menu with multi level flyout (you can also see how it was created)
Example menu under the ‘My Account’ section. Great for membership sites!
Example menu under the ‘My Site’ menu, viewed from backend.
Example menu under the ‘My Site’ menu, viewed from frontend.

Installation

To install this plugin:

via FTP

Upload folder admin-toolbar-menus to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Visit the menus page under ‘Appearance’ > ‘Menus’ to create your new menus

via wp-admin

Upload the compressed version admin-toolbar-menus.zip through ‘Plugins’ > ‘Add New’ > ‘Upload’
Click ‘Activate Plugin’
Visit the menus page under ‘Appearance’ > ‘Menus’ to create your new menus

FAQ

Does this display menus to admin only or everyone?: The menus created will be visible to anyone logged in.
Can you make it show only to admins?: You could quite easily but you would need to know a little php. You simply need to add a conditional statement to the plugin to make sure only the admin user role can see the menus.
Do you have to use all 3 menus?: Nope! If you don’t assign a menu to the locations, they simply won’t show up.

Reviews

May July 28, 2023

This is really helpful. You can make shortcuts to setting page of each plugin, specific post, external link, anything you want. If you are disgusted with many left menus, you should install it. solve problems with one click.

Doeye Hof September 15, 2022

I say yes use this to click less

Achim Kirchmeier June 16, 2021 1 reply

What should i say: Thanks a lot! 🙂

norabrown212 January 26, 2021 1 reply

I used this to add a dropdown of pages in the admin bar. It is good — simple and easy to use. It could be improved two ways: * add an option to always show the admin bar, even in “fullscreen” mode (I found another plugin to do this, for now) * add an option for a menu to output the admin edit links, rather than the front-end links (I had to use custom links which isn’t as easy to maintain)

huuhkaja69 October 1, 2020 1 reply

I have been looking easy way to edit admin toolbar menus for a long time and finally found this. Simple and Great plugin!

macrodesign February 18, 2020 1 reply

Hi, I must congratulate you for identifying this problem and putting this together. Simple and easy… perhaps you could build on it an make it more intuitive, like a drop down it is now, with all current admin items dynamically updates as they grow, so we would not need to go to the dashboard ever again… just a suggestion, but very helpful, a fresh breath of air

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Contributors & Developers

“Admin Toolbar Menus” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Benbodhi

“Admin Toolbar Menus” has been translated into 12 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

1.0.4

FIX: “Trying to get property of non-object” PHP notice.

1.0.3

Bug Fix – Swapped out the if statement around Site Name menu location, so it didn’t disappear.
Uncommented the WP Logo menu removal again – just to keep it consistent for users until there is the option to turn on and off in the admin.

1.0.2

Removed the default WP logo menu removal – settings page coming in next release.
Clean up code for compatibility with next release and new features.

1.0.1

Cleaned up readme.txt file a bit to look nicer in the repository.
Modified a screenshot to display the plugin’s features more prominently.

1.0

Initial Release.

Best Tool for Admin

Very h

Big Time-Saver

Just what I wanted

Little thing but makes editing so much strait forward

Spot-on Plugin, my first ever review