Removing admin bar: option is not there

  • grantdavis28 · Member ·

    I have been through every tutorial but i do not have the option under ‘my profile’ to remove my admin bar.

    i do not have wordpress as im on a mac so im just wanting to post but i hate the admin bar. please help

    Cheers

    heres what my settings look like: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5180/5559925918_ce1ebc5675_z.jpg

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    Removing the admin bar is not allowed by wordpress.COM. If you do it, you risk having your blog suspended or deleted.

    Besides, when I visit your site, what I see is MY admin bar, not yours, so you would actually be hiding MY admin bar.

  • nowtalking · Member ·

    If I’m paying to have my wordpress.com blog on my own URL (like http://failbook.failblog.org/ is for example), then I don’t expect other users of wordpress.com to see their admin bar over my site.

    Sure, it makes sense to show it when a user is browsing on the wordpress.com domain. But if I owned failbook (or any other site that pays wordpress.com money for a custom URL, like http://popwatch.ew.com/ or 1000s of others) I would be upset at having an unrelated toolbar appear at the top of my site for many of my users.

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    @nowtalking, the domain mapping upgrade and domain name do not magically move you off of wordpress.COM. You are STILL hosted on wordpress.COM and all the restrictions and the ToS here still apply to you. All domain mapping does is to put your blog here at wordpress.COM under a custom URL. That is all.

    When I go to your site, the admin bar I see at the top is my admin bar, not yours. That admin bar is for my use. I am not seeing your admin bar.

    If you do not want the admin bar, then you can always move to self-hosting where the only person that would see it would be you when you are logged in, or you could choose to turn it off.

    Self-hosting will run you $10 to $25 per month and you will be responsible for all installations, all upgrades, all backups and all troubleshooting. If something goes wrong, you have to figure it out and fix it. Backups are extremely important. Do them regularly and make sure you backup everything including the MySQL database. That way if you get hacked, install a bad plugin or theme that kills your site, or your web host has a major server crash, you can restore it quickly. Do make sure and download the backups and keep them safe, and in several locations (hard drive, copied to CD, etc.).

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    And the entire cheezburger network, is hosted here at wordpress.COM on the VIP hosting program. That is why they admin bar appears at the top when someone signed into wordpress.COM goes to one of their sites.

  • nowtalking · Member ·

    I understand that the admin bar belongs to the reader of the site rather than the owner of the site.

    Even so, I do not want readers of my blog to see “wordpress.com” at the top of the screen when they are on my blog’s domain. My brand is important to me, and I don’t want readers who happen to have an account at wordpress.com to see a toolbar on top of my blog’s pages.

    I understand the costs and inconveniences of self-hosting, so that’s why I’m moving my blogs to a wordpress hosting provider, rather than hosting myself. I’ll be using one who doesn’t alter my design with an extra toolbar for some of my users.

    If I were the brand manager for CBS (for example, or any VIP hosts), I’d be upset that many of my users see a wordpress toolbar on top of http://newyork.cbslocal.com/, higher on the page than the CBS brand, and sticky so it’s always on top of the page.

  • timethief · Member ·

    @nowtalking
    We Volunteers ie. your fellow bloggers answer questions. We do not set policy and we do not argue with members. Your only option to achieve what you want is to hire a web host and self host a free software install from wordpress.org. Luckily you have yet to create an archive of content so the move will be very easily made. http://wordpress.org/support/

  • timethief · Member ·

    Staff have prepared a support entry that clearly explains the differences between free hosted wordpress.com blogs and free software for self hosting from wordpress.org. If you would like to read it here’s the link for you WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  • justjennifer · Member ·

    /The following is a personal opinion.

    @nowtalking, not arguing, but let’s see here…

    • politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
    • blogs.nfl.com/
    • thepage.time.com/
    • stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/
    • blogmaverick.com/
    • whatever.scalzi.com/
    • alyankovic.wordpress.com/
    • blog.aarp.org/
    • blogs.blackberry.com/
    • macdailynews.com/

    and many more*, all hosted on WordPress.com or WordPress.com’s VIP program and I can’t imagine they are any less concerned about maintaining their brand than you are.

    But cheers and good luck regardless of which flavor of WordPress you choose to fly with.

    *Sources: http://vip.wordpress.com/clients/ and my subscription list.

  • justjennifer · Member ·

    Hmm, not sure how that blank space showed up, but read it to mean “Your blog here”. :)

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    You don’t want the admin bar, then self-host. If “Brand” is that important to you, spend some money and put in the work to host your own.

    And as far as “brand” goes, add these to the list Jennifer gave.

    techcrunch.com
    GigaOM.com
    CNN freedom project
    CNN Pressroom
    CNN Money (Fortune Finance)
    CNN (almost too numerous to count
    Time Magazine (many)
    The Carter Center Blog
    Technologizer
    Honeywell

    To my way of thinking with the ones that Jennifer listed, and these above, wordpress.COM bloggers are in pretty good company.

  • The topic ‘Removing admin bar: option is not there’ is closed to new replies.