5 Ways To Fix Your WordPress Admin Bar Not Showing Up

Mark Edwards

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Why Does The Missing Admin Bar Issue Occur?

Usually, when your admin bar goes missing, it can be down to your theme settings. You may have a plugin or active theme that is preventing WordPress from properly executing the code in the footer area of your website.

This code is triggered with the function:<?php wp_footer(); ?>

When a theme is missing this code, or a plugin does something that messes it up, then you will end up with the missing WordPress admin bar issue.

Fixing The Missing Admin Bar

Here are 5 things to check:

• Make sure your theme has wp_head(); in it.

• Make sure your theme has wp_footer(); in it.

• Using the WordPress left navigation in the admin section.. go to Users -> “Your Profile” … one of the checkboxes at the top reads: “Show Toolbar when viewing site” — make sure that’s checked on.

If you've done all of the above & the WordPress admin bar is still not showing up, check for CSS/HTML conflicts.

• The WordPress admin bar uses a class ID of #wpadminbar – make sure you're not overwriting those styles.

• <ul> and <li> – the WP admin top bar use <ul>’s and <li>’s — be sure you're not overwriting the styles that make them show.

• Check your source code and search for “wpadminbar” – make sure the thing is actually showing up!

• Ask your WordPress Host for help! - We would be more than happy to help you find out why your WordPress admin bar is not showing up.

Troubleshooting

If adding the wp_footer() function to your theme does not solve the issue for you, then there are other things you can do to troubleshoot this error.

If you switch back to a default theme, you may see the wp_footer function in your theme files, but the admin bar still might not work. In this case, you need to switch to a default theme to make sure that your current theme is not causing this issue.

A poorly coded plugin can cause this error as well, so to check if a plugin has caused this issue, you need to deactivate and re-activate all plugins one by one. If this solves your problem then one of your plugins was causing the issue.

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