Helen Hou-Sandi

When we were making mockups for the refreshed admin bar in 3.3, I created a blue version to mix things up and ended up really liking it. It looks nice with both included admin color schemes, especially the blue. It’s also helpful for developers who maintain staging and production environments – I personally use the blue to remind me that I am looking at local development.

Blue Admin Bar

A pretty WordPress blue version of the admin bar. Supports BuddyPress when BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR is true. RTL support for 3.3.

Collins Agbonghama

Simple plugin for disabling admin bar and preventing access to WordPress dashboard based on a user’s roles.
It is that simple 😀
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Admin Bar & Dashboard Access Control

I've used 2 plugins before for this stuff. This excellent little plugin makes it really easy, all in 1 plugin. Does just what it needs to and does it well.

My only complaint: it adds a new sidebar item in the Admin. It really should have it's settings under Settings or Tools sections. Only plugins with multiple pages of settings, and that need to be accessed regularly, should add more height to my sidebar. If that gets fixed, I'll change my review to 5 stars! I know it's a bit nit-picky of a complaint. I guess it shows how good this little plugin is, when that's the only thing wrong.

Works great, does the work of 2 plugins elegantly!

Disable admin bar and control users access to WordPress dashboard.

Blue Admin Bar vs Admin Bar & Dashboard Access Control