Title: Admin Bar Overlap
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Admin Bar Overlap

 *  Resolved [stormhawk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stormhawk/)
 * (@stormhawk)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-bar-overlap/)
 * Hi,
 * On my [site](http://requirecookie.com/), I’ve just activated Athena, but the 
   admin bar overlaps the top section of the menu.
 * Is there a fix?

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 *  Theme Author [smartcat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartcat/)
 * (@smartcat)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-bar-overlap/#post-7306454)
 * looks normal when you’re not logged in
 *  [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
 * (@juggledad)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-bar-overlap/#post-7306532)
 * [@smartcat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartcat/) – seriously??? that
   is your solution? You have a bug in your setup in that it doesn’t deal with the
   admin bar properly and it needs to be fixed.
 * Wow I was looking to change themes and this was on the list, but I’m glad I look
   at support threads before I commit. Guess I’ll go looking elsewhere.
 *  Theme Author [smartcat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartcat/)
 * (@smartcat)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-bar-overlap/#post-7306545)
 * [@juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
 * lol why is that so shocking to you ? the theme has a fixed navbar, that’s always
   overlapped by the admin bar when the user is logged in. That’s the same case 
   for every theme with a fixed navbar.
 * The solution is to hide the admin bar. If theme developers start messing around
   with positioning of the admin bar, it can create a lot of other issues. I left
   it on purpose as to not change any default behavior, and it’s very low on my 
   priority list for the next update, since its not a bug, it doesn’t affect functionality,
   it’s just something the user can choose to look past it, or go to the user settings
   and hide the admin bar if it’s that annoying.
 * If you want to change themes over that, that’s totally your call.
 *  [nahtee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nahtee/)
 * (@nahtee)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-bar-overlap/#post-7306644)
 * LOL, it’s NOT a bug. Some developers choose to mess with their theme’s fixed 
   navbar coding in order to deal with WordPress’ decision to default-on that stupid
   admin bar.
    Just turn it off in the wordpress admin settings and keep working.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-bar-overlap/#post-7306644)
 * Status: resolved