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.

Michael Dance

This humble plugin adds an option in Settings > General that controls who sees the WP Toolbar when viewing your site.
You can turn the Toolbar on or off per user role.
Note that this controls the public, front-end version of your site. When viewing the dashboard, the toolbar always appears.
How is this different from other plugins that do similar things? It’s smaller, cleaner, and doesn’t add any unnecesary settings pages. It’s also smart enough to hide the Toolbar option on user profiles if that user is already restricted from seeing the toolbar.

Disable Toolbar

Control who sees the WP Toolbar when viewing your site.

Blue Admin Bar vs Disable Toolbar