Title: Toolbar link issue
Last modified: December 13, 2019

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# Toolbar link issue

 *  [kingscrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingscrown/)
 * (@kingscrown)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/toolbar-link-issue/)
 * Hi!
 * I have an issue with the WordPress-toolbar since the upgrade to 5.3.1. I run 
   a multisite and when a logged in user clicks on “My sites” and then on the site
   they want to visit, they are sent to their control panel instead of the site.
 * How can I edit these links?
 * Note: I don’t want to hide the toolbar completely (I see there are a lot of plugins
   that do that) – just that when a visitor clicks on a site they want to visit –
   they should get to the front-page of that site – nothing else.
 * Please help. Thanks!
 * (Unfortunately I can’t post a link to the site because it’s geo blocked.)
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/).
      Reason: moved to Networking WordPress forum since this is a multisite issue

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/toolbar-link-issue/#post-12239448)
 * If users roll over their site under My Sites, a submenu opens letting them go
   straight to the site’s home page instead of the dashboard. There could be several
   other options depending on their assigned role. They get the dashboard when clicking
   the site name because “dashboard” is the first submenu item.
 * Admin bar items can be added and removed using WP_Admin_Bar methods
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Admin_Bar](https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Admin_Bar)
 *  Thread Starter [kingscrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingscrown/)
 * (@kingscrown)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/toolbar-link-issue/#post-12239593)
 * Thank you, but are you saying that if “admin panel” was not the first submenu
   item, but instead the second, that would change how the site names are linked?
   In that case I want to change how they are ordered. Can you tell me how to do
   this? I find it very illogical that when a user clicks on the site name, they
   get the admin panel and not the home page. The only time I want users to go there
   is when they actually click on the submenu item that says “admin panel”.
 * On another note, it seems that WordPress is a little to eager to send users to
   the admin panel at any time. By default users are sent there when logging in –
   instead of the actual home page. I’m pretty sure that most website visitors are
   more interested in the site content than the admin panel. When you login to Facebook,
   you are sent to your Facebook page. When you login to Netflix, you are sent to
   your movies and shows. But when you login to a site that is built in WordPress,
   you get an admin panel instead of the site content. I’ve found that this is confusing
   for users, but I have a plugin that takes care of the login issue, so this was
   just a side note.
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [kingscrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingscrown/).
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [kingscrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kingscrown/).
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/toolbar-link-issue/#post-12240800)
 * The “go to first submenu item” behavior is true for the sidebar menu. I don’t
   know about admin bar items. I’m pretty sure you could get the each child node
   of “My Sites”, alter the target URL, then add it back in, replacing the original
   node. I’ve never done so myself, but in any case the solution lies in WP_Admin_Bar
   methods one way or another.
 * When you add your callback to ‘admin_bar_menu’ action to do something with the
   admin bar, add with a large priority argument so your code runs after any other
   admin bar manipulation by other code.
 * The “go to dashboard” login behavior is because normally users needn’t log in
   at all to utilize the front end. It’s only needed to administer something. Of
   course there are plenty of exceptions. WP cannot be all things to all people 
   right out of the box. You can bet logins going to the home page would anger many
   people as well. Thankfully there are plugins that change things to our liking
   and there are plenty of hooks for devs to use in addressing almost any specific
   need.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/toolbar-link-issue/#post-12240800)
 * Status: not resolved

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