Hiding admin bar in WordPress 3.3

@consumedesign – Where are you putting it? I added it in my active theme stylesheet, even added “!important” for each style, but the adminbar still shows up in the Dashboard.

OK, the whole ‘freedom’ discussion is killing me!
http://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/

Seriously.

The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
The freedom to redistribute.
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others.

Nowhere in there does it say WordPress guarantees the freedom to have the option to turn everything on and off provided for you, or to have the freedom to have your personal whims catered to.

Unhappy with the toolbar? that’s cool, express that. But in no way is WordPress infringing on your freedom by developing what is felt to be a useful feature for the majority of users.

That is just sticking with the philosophy.

For those who do not want the users on their multi-site to get confused about the intricacies of upgrading wordpress can hide that particular menu doing the following. You can still as the network administrator see it. Put this in your theme’s functions.php or some other appropriate plae where it is runs early enough.

function fix_admin_bar() {
        global $wp_admin_bar;
        if (!is_super_admin())
                $wp_admin_bar->remove_node('wp-logo');

}
add_action('wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'fix_admin_bar');

I feel the same way. As a custom theme designer, who uses WP as a CMS for her clients, I generally build a custom link/dashboard system for my clients. They don’t want access to all that extra “stuff”; it confuses them, and makes my job twice as hard. I agree it should be a simple OPTION with the ability (thru hooks and/or filters) to add-on and remove things from it.

I agree absolutely with lighgal. Providing flexibility, convenience, and less confusion for your entire user base (including their clients) and not just the select majority is the professional (and often quite profitable) way to go about things. This service-oriented practice has certainly worked wonders for my firm.

Thanks for the tip, olyma. I’ll give it a try although I still believe that issue should be addressed by WordPress itself rather than forcing product users to find a third-party workaround. I, too, would really like to see the ability to globally disable the tool bar on the front end from within the dashboard.

Taking jsalo’s code a little further, you can easily remove any of the nodes in the toolbar:

function custom_admin_bar() {
	global $wp_admin_bar;
	if ( !current_user_can( 'install_themes' ) ) {
		$wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'wp-logo' );
			// or individually remove its children
			// $wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'about' );
			// $wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'wporg' );
			// $wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'documentation' );
			// $wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'support-forums' );
			// $wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'feedback' );
		$wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'site-name' );
		$wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'comments' );
		$wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'new-content' );
			// or individually remove its children
			// $wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'new-post' );
			// $wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'new-media' );
			// $wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'new-link' );
			// $wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'new-page' );
	}
}
add_action('wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'custom_admin_bar');