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Hide WP Toolbar

by Jeremy Saxey · Uncategorized

Easily hide or show the front-end WordPress Admin Toolbar with a click of a button.

⚠ Stale
How scoring works →
66 Health · C
Maintenance 45/100
Rating quality 87/100
Support 70/100

66 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

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.

79 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 53/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 69/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 505 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 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+32% vs prior 30d
33Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

417

now · peak 1.5K

43130d 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

Hide WP Toolbar · #6901 you Hide Admin Bar from · #1755 WP-ShowHide · #2219 which template file · #3504

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.9Stars · 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.

431per 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

1.4y ago

latest release · v2.6.1

14

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.6.1 · 1.4y ago2.6 · 3.7y ago2.5.6 · 3.8y ago2.5.5 · 3.8y ago2.5.4 · 4.5y ago2.5.3 · 4.5y ago2.4.2 · 5.1y ago2.4.1 · 9.3y ago2.4 · 9.3y ago2.3 · 9.3y ago2.2 · 12.4y ago2.1 · 12.6y ago1.3 · 13.1y ago2.0 · 13.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 84% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.7 84%
v2.6 7.5%
v2.4 5%
Older / other versions 3%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
1K–2K ≈1.4K

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2016-11-07 · 1,426 observations

1KInstalls · 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
2.7
Last updated
1.4y ago
Added
2012-09-10 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
6.8.8
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. diegoamorin
    11mo ago

    I always had this problem, and while searching I came across your plugin. It’s great that you can open and close the admin so easily

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  2. ofihsdfoi
    2.0y ago

    the restore button is supposed to be an arrow but it’s showing as a magnifying glass which does not work to slide it back out. it’s broken or something but it’s not usable.

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  3. raoulunger
    2.3y ago

    Thank you – excellent and useful!

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  4. ianstudio
    3.8y ago

    How did I not find this one before. Perfect.

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  5. Eric
    4.3y ago

    WordPress transients are not working. I tested it with a clean install of WordPress 6.0 and the toolbar state is not saved. I have to click the button every time I refresh the page. This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Eric.

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  6. danielepais
    5.2y ago

    I got to say that as simple as it is …. it is so useful in my case. Excellent plugin.

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  7. Pexle Chris
    5.6y ago

    I had tried several plugins that this was the one that has the toogle feature that I love

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  8. ntronet
    5.7y ago

    With half a dozen similar plugins out there, this one serves its purpose flawlessly – every single install.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2025-09-22 CVE-2025-57969 Missing Authorization Affects <= 2.7 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.6.1

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more

Swedish 100%

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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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Hide WP Toolbar: 1K+ active installs, 4.9★ (13 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/hide-wp-toolbar