Title: Take Control Of The WordPress Toolbar Author: paulund Published: April 9, 2012 Last modified: December 20, 2012 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar. svg) # Take Control Of The WordPress Toolbar By [paulund](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paulund/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar.1.4.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/) ## Description 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 your own links to the toolbar by creating a WordPress menu and assigning it to be used in the WordPress toolbar. ### Arbitrary section ## Installation 1. Upload the `Take Control Of The WordPress Toolbar` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Navigate to Settings -> Control WordPress Toolbar 4. Remove the links you don’t want to use. 5. Navigate to Appearance -> Menus to create your own Toolbar menu 6. Navigate back to Settings -> Control WordPress Toolbar and select the menu to use in the Toolbar ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Take Control Of The WordPress Toolbar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ paulund ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paulund/) [Translate “Take Control Of The WordPress Toolbar” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog 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. ## Meta * Version **1.4** * Last updated **14 years ago** * Active installations **20+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.3.2** * Tags * [control](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/control/)[menu](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/menu/) [Navigate](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/navigate/)[toolbar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/toolbar/) [WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wordpress/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 3 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/take-control-of-the-wordpress-toolbar/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ paulund ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paulund/) ## Support Got something to say? 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