Remove "New" button from Admin Bar

[Robert]

How do I remove the admin button that contains the options to post a new post or media?

http://screencast.com/t/KHEKBB47L2Go

[Alyssa]

@straniero this is a WordPress issue but try adding this to your functions.php file in your child theme:

add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'remove_toolbar_menus' );
function remove_toolbar_menus() {
    global $wp_admin_bar;
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( 'new-post' );
}

[Robert]

That removes the new post option in the menu, but how would I remove the whole button altogether? (or just hide it)

🙂

[Anonymous]

I used this: $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-content');

[Alyssa]

@straniero Assuming you still want to see this as an admin try this:

#wp-admin-bar-root-default{display:none;}
.role-admin#wp-admin-bar-root-default{display:block;}

[Robert]

That didn’t work, so I combined your code with @gansad’s and came up with this which seems to work,

add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'remove_toolbar_menus' );
function remove_toolbar_menus() {
    global $wp_admin_bar;
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-content');
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('comments');
} 

That went in the functions file. 🙂

[Robert]

Out of curiosity…

is there a way to remove the items from that button, but replace them with other ones?

Specifically “new forum post” and “new photo upload”

Could be cool, as users seem very drawn to that button. Would be a shame to waste the real estate.

[Anonymous]

I am using this for my admin bar menu

function mytheme_admin_bar_render() {
global $wp_admin_bar;

// Remove the New 'Slides' drop-down link submenu
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-buddyboss_slides');

// Remove new LINK submenu
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-link');

// Remove New Location submenu
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-location');

// Remove New Reply submenu
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-reply');

// Remove New Ideas submenu
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-ideas');

// Here we add New IdeaStream URL link submenu
 $myURL = 'http://domain.com/is/new-idea/';
 $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
 'parent' => 'new-content',
 'id' => 'new-ideastream',
 'title' => 'IdeaStream',
'href' => $myURL
));
  
// ADD a new top level menu link
// Here we add a Raising Concern URL link
 $concernURL = 'http://domain.com/concernreporting/';
 $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
 'parent' => false,
 'id' => 'raise_concern',
 'title' => '<i class="fa fa-send-o fa-5x"></i> Report Concern',
'href' => $concernURL
));

// Add a new sub-menu to the link above
// Here we add a link to our contact us web page
// $contactUsURL = 'http://domain.com/contact2/';
// $wp_admin_bar->add_menu(array(
// 'parent' => 'raise_concern',
// 'id' => 'contact_us',
// 'title' =>'Contact Us',
// 'href' => $contactUsURL
// ));

}

// Finally we add our hook function
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'mytheme_admin_bar_render' );

[Alyssa]

@straniero Here is the full WordPress reference http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Admin_Bar/add_node

[Robert]

Thanks guys. Will play around with this.