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Admin Bar Position

by Masahiro NAKASHIMA · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 8 other plugins · 54.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

This plugin can change bottom to "Admin Bar".

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 6/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

Removal-risk signals

45/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

45 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 13/100
WP compatibility 53/100
Rating quality 56/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1244 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+31% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

290

now · peak 1.9K

28030d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Admin Bar Position · #2831 you Term Management Tool · #1591 Adjust Admin Categor · #1803 Taxonomy Filter · #7493

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.2Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

47per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

3.4y ago

latest release · v1.1.4

6

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1.4 · 3.4y ago1.1.3 · 4.5y ago1.1.2 · 5.1y ago1.1.1 · 6.5y ago1.1.0 · 7.8y ago1.0.0 · 10.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 99%
v1.0 0.6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “6K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
6K–7K ≈6.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2018-05-04 · 1,425 observations

6KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.1.4
Last updated
3.4y ago
Added
2016-03-23 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.2.0
Requires PHP

Recent review vibe

read from the latest 5 reviews to 2022-10-08
Mixed PraiseCompatibilityBroken updates

Older reviewers love being able to move the admin bar to the top or bottom while building sites, though the most recent one says hover on the native button doesn't work and points people to a different plugin.

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. M.Code
    3.9y ago

    Hover on native button are not working at all.. Instead use this updated and working plugin : https://wordpress.org/plugins/bottom-admin-toolbar/ This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by M.Code. This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by M.Code.

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  2. megane9988
    6.6y ago

    Thanks. It is very usefull! If you ok, please update something. Because plugin page displayed caution message.h

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  3. pinksharpii
    7.8y ago

    This is a wonderful solution for developing custom themes. Sometimes we implement sticky navigation menu and the WP admin bar gets in the way. This is a better solution than the “Bottom Admin Bar” plugin because it allows it to be on top or bottom.

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  4. sonicserve
    9.8y ago

    My new favorite plugin to be installed on ALL my sites. You can put the Admin Bar (Frontend) on top or bottom, simply by holding the (Shift) key and hitting the “Up” or “Down” arrows.

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  5. Frank Gomez
    9.9y ago

    I’ve been using a toggle which still was problematic for some website designs. This plugin solves the problem. The admin bar is a nuisance when building a website and this is the right tool to make it go away!

    Read on wp.org ↗

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.0.0 Initial release 1.0.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.2

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-11-11 5K+ → 6K+ up after 281 days in tier
  2. 2024-02-04 4K+ → 5K+ up after 3 days in tier
  3. 2024-02-01 5K+ → 4K+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2024-01-31 4K+ → 5K+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2024-01-29 5K+ → 4K+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-01-28 4K+ → 5K+ up after 383 days in tier
  7. 2023-01-10 3K+ → 4K+ up

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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