Admin Bar & Dashboard Access Control
Disable admin bar and control users access to WordPress dashboard.
Maintenance 72/10026d since update
Active installs
3,000
Downloads
69,497
Reviews
18
Age
9.8y
Tagsadmindashboardadmin baraccesstoolbarroleadmin dashboarddisable admin bardisable toolbar
Plugin info
Total downloads: 69,497
Active installs: 3,000
Total reviews: 18
Average rating: 4.7
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 12/4/2025 (26 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 3/25/2016 (9 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 6.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: 5.4
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Actively maintained • Last updated 26 days ago • 18 reviews
72/100
Is Admin Bar & Dashboard Access Control abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 26 days ago).
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 5.4
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Description
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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Installation
Installing this plugin is just like any other WordPress plugin.
Navigate to your WordPress “Plugins” page, inside of your WordPress dashboard, and follow these instructions:
- In the search field enter Admin Bar & Dashboard Control. Click “Search Plugins”, or hit Enter.
- Select Admin Bar & Dashboard Control and click either “Details” or “Install Now”.
- Once installed, click “Activate”.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have any question, shoot us a mail via support[at]profilepress.net
Review feed
Tevya
Works great, does the work of 2 plugins elegantly!
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.
Screenshots
Settings page
Changelog
1.2.9
- Fixed XSS in admin settings page.
1.2.8
- Fixed bug where admin bar showed up for guests.
1.2.7
- Improved admin bar disabling.
- Improved dashboard blocking detection.
- PHP 8 improvements.
1.2.6
- Bumped tested up to readme.
1.2.5
- Tuned down admin notices.
1.2.4
- Improve compatibility with WordPress 5.0
1.2.3
- Make admin notice dismiss button more obvious.
1.2.2
- Small fix and improvement.
1.2.1
- Fix inability to dismiss notice in some sites
1.2
- Improve compatibility with latest WP.
- Performance improvement.
1.1
- Improve compatibility with latest WP.
1.0.4
- Change all http URLs to https.
- Compatible test for 4.8 successful.
1.0.3
- Fixes bug where admin bar being disabled even when user preference is true.
- Fixes another header already sent error
1.0.2
- Fixed: Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent
1.0.1
- Fixed frontend admin-ajax.php functionality for users with disabled Dashboard access
1.0
- the genesis