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Hide Admin Bar
The shortcut for users who prefer clicking over coding.
HealthyGrowing
79/100
Users value the convenience even if the task is technically replicable with CSS.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.5★
30 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+65%
Growing fast
36 → 60 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 7 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +65% in the last year
36/day a year ago→60/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayHide Admin Bar is a well-regarded, no-frills plugin that reliably does one thing — hides the WordPress admin bar — though critics argue the same result can be achieved with a single line of CSS, making the plugin's necessity debatable.
What people like
- +Does exactly what it advertises: hides the admin bar without configuration or hassle×6
- +Easy to use — install and activate is all that is needed×4
- +Useful as an alternative when manual PHP or CSS approaches fail to stick
- +Supports hiding the admin bar per user role via settings
- +Works alongside BuddyPress without conflict
Common complaints
- −Functionality can be replicated with a single CSS rule (#wpadminbar {display:none}), leading some to question whether a plugin is necessary at all
- −No ability to hide the admin bar for specific usernames, only user roles
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.38★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-08-132025-07-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 30 total
Latest reviews · 30 analyzed
- 2026-03-28★★★★★Très bonne extensionWilm39
- 2025-10-06★★★★★Lovely pluginoberstlynild
- 2024-07-21★★★★★Good to go with BuddyPressyesnotes
- 2022-01-19★★★★★Funcionachris1alba1-shot
- 2021-04-06★★★★★Super Easy Plugin : No complications!Hari
- 2021-01-19★★★★★works PERFECTLY … so simpleJames Revillini
- 2021-01-19★★★★★Just use CSSgtswhitt
- 2019-01-01★★★★★works with no settingsstevomigas
- 2018-09-17★★★★★Just install and active themekarimidev73
- 2018-08-28★★★★★badAwais Altaf
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
54
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
59
Prior 7-day baseline
47
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
69
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-8.5%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.58
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
87%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.47 → 4.38★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered