New Admin Bar
The admin bar, or that blue thing on top of you window when you’re logged in, has been getting a little long in the tooth. I asked our buddy Bryan to take a look at it, and his work is now what you see at the top.
Functionality-wise, if you have multiple blogs you will appreciate there are now quicklinks to each dashboard and each post page in a dropdown. Also the “Blog Info” dropdown will be expanded as well, to give you more information about a blog and also a quick link to report a blog as mature or spam.
As always, let me know what you think in the comments.
Update [by Bryan]: Glad to see that so many people liked my little project! Well I’ve finally got the chance to fix some of the styling errors concerning the bar in styles such as Hemingway. The only lingering one is style error lies in Fauna, which I’m still working on.
July 27th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
It’s great, much nicer than the old one.
July 27th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Very nice.
July 27th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Holy crap, I just posted a review, then there was this amazing new admin bar on the top of my screen. It looks and works great. Finally I don’t have to go to one of my other blogs to post to it. Thanks guys.
July 27th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Seems nice, especially the drop-down for posting. Thanks guys.
Seems like you’ve been busy lately
July 27th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
I think the new look on the admin bar is great! Adds freshness to the whole interface especially with the wordpress logo faintly appearing in the middle of the backdrop.
Nice work!
July 27th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Cool. I like the new one. Any plans to also put the admin bar at the bottom?
July 27th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
It would be nice if the admin bar could actually stay in place as we scroll up and down the blog page. Otherwise, it is nice to see the admin bar updated.
July 27th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
looks good
July 27th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
well done
July 27th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Very slick indeed!
July 27th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
It’s really sleek and it looks like it will be easier to use. Great job!
July 27th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Nice revision! Have y’all been busy lately, or what?
And, just so it’s said: Thanks for everything you do for us.
July 27th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
Now is much easier to manage several blogs at the same time! good work!
July 27th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
I just LOVE the new admin bar!!! looks nice and more logical as well!! u guys rock!
July 27th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Thanks heaps for this, it is a much better way to handle multiple blogs!
V
July 27th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
nice
July 27th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Great stuff. Also, how about making the admin bar a ‘sticky’ bar via Javascript so as we scroll down we can still see it/use it? You could also always fall back to the standard version if people don’t have JS enabled.
July 27th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
nice! I liked!
July 27th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Thanks, looks nice!
July 27th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Looks really cool… but is there a profile page? It will be more useful if the order were Dashboard -> New Post -> My Account
July 27th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
I like it.
July 27th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Very cool. I don’t mean to nitpick, but is there a chance you could put the link to the actual blog back?
July 27th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
Hermosa ! very nice funcionality
July 27th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
I love it. I join the WordPress family today and a couple of hours later they improve the tool bar. It’s a sign…
July 27th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
work fine!
July 27th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Very nice job!!
Thank you!
July 27th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
I think, it’s just new design… for me it’s the same, what was previously…
July 27th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
Love the new admin bar! But when I click on “view site” the words on my bar disappear, but only on the left side (“My Account”, “My Dashboard”, “New Post”). Otherwise, works great!
July 28th, 2006 at 12:10 am
Gostei da nova barra, parabéns! Hoje tive uma boa surpresa também, agora o WordPress está em português!!
July 28th, 2006 at 12:26 am
rather than vjp’s suggestion…
i thought an option to have it static would be nice.
ie: you can leave it at the top, or you can have it follow your when you scroll (ie: its always at the top of what you are viewing.
Thanks,
Peter
July 28th, 2006 at 12:37 am
Nice work.. Not keen on the color change, though.
July 28th, 2006 at 12:39 am
i like that. You’re really faster thankz.
wordpress rulaz.
July 28th, 2006 at 1:26 am
I would love to make a firefox extension or a bookmarklet that adds this to the sites you view. That would be cool.
July 28th, 2006 at 2:04 am
Thanks so much for yet another wonderful feature!
July 28th, 2006 at 2:14 am
keep up the good work guys!
July 28th, 2006 at 2:16 am
Whoa, I go away from my computer to watch a baseball game ,and I come back to see this!
I love it!
July 28th, 2006 at 2:41 am
Excellent! Just posted this week’s Thursday Humor segment over at Wondrous Inventions and noticed the new admin bar.
July 28th, 2006 at 2:58 am
Like this one
July 28th, 2006 at 3:27 am
I just logged on and I was like whoah. Thanks again!
July 28th, 2006 at 3:34 am
Nice new feature. But if you only have it “static”, no more scrolling up to find the dropdown. Overall GREAT!
July 28th, 2006 at 3:45 am
it’s great! esp now we can choose which blog we would like to post from. great work as usual!! =)
July 28th, 2006 at 4:12 am
Wonderful! Looks great. Now, is there anyway the new admin bar can be added to the “dashboard” page? With multiple blogs it sure would be nice not to have to “view” one of the blogs to get the dashboards of the others.
Keep up the good work!
July 28th, 2006 at 4:34 am
Very handy, slick. i like the w-logo i the middle.
July 28th, 2006 at 4:57 am
Good Job that!
I would also prefer it to be a ‘Moving’ one i.e. It stays at the top even when we Scroll Up/Down. Also the Arrow to the extreme right does not have a text (or even a tooltip) to indicate that it is going to navigate to the Next WordPress Blog.
July 28th, 2006 at 5:01 am
i love this new admin bar, so much better than the previous one. I love how you guys at wordpress continue to come up with new things for all us bloggers to enjoy!
July 28th, 2006 at 5:28 am
This is a great improvement! Thanks Matt!
July 28th, 2006 at 6:50 am
rapid improvements is wat made wordpress great! carry on with the excellant job!
July 28th, 2006 at 6:55 am
I love these new features..thanks!
July 28th, 2006 at 6:59 am
Sure, it’s better now. That’s all i expected.
http://bmw7.wordpress.com
July 28th, 2006 at 6:59 am
i totally like the new admin bar, at least you have some design on it rather that a plain one
July 28th, 2006 at 7:04 am
Looks superb but I get errors when ever I use the bar, it says that it isn’t redirecting properly???
July 28th, 2006 at 7:31 am
I love it! thank you very much. this was something that i really missed. it will make handling multiple blogs all that much easier. thanks!
July 28th, 2006 at 7:46 am
Fantastic! This is what I love about WordPress… a little while back I reported how annoying the admin bar was, and asked for exactly these features, and I had a reply saying “we’re working on it” – and you really were! Top stuff!
July 28th, 2006 at 8:02 am
Okay, it’s great and everything, but when I click “New Post” it just takes me to the Dashboard, not to write a new post. Also, hovering over the “Blog Info” does nothing: no menu drops down, as it does when I hover over “My Account”. Clicking on “Blog Info” just takes me to my blog homepage.
The above happens on both IE and Firefox.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:08 am
Can someone please explain how I can got between dashboard of my two blogs? I can’t see anything in the new admin bar that lets me do that. I have no “view” option.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:40 am
It’s been only a week since I am using WP.com (moved from Blogger to Typepad to WP.com), I had made a suggestion couple days ago to change the admin bar in a way that it allows you to post to a specific blog when you have many of those.
You guys are really listening to your users!
WordPress.com Rocks !
Many Thanks,
Hakim Bennis
July 28th, 2006 at 8:47 am
its great… i was suprise to see the new look of the admin bar…
July 28th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Nice, and very useful if you have more than one blog like me. Thx for all the hard work.
July 28th, 2006 at 9:15 am
The red link does not contrast against the blue background of the bar, making it hard to read. Perhaps a brighter colour?
July 28th, 2006 at 9:42 am
I enjoy the new Admin bar; however, when adding pages today the date of the pages was suddenly “1970″ which is not exactly correct and not exactly how I set my options
. Has it something to do with the new Admin bar?
July 28th, 2006 at 9:53 am
I kinda dont like it… Someone added me as a subscriber to his blog and am seeing his option of a new post even though I dont have rights to make one! Gets irritative for me but its a boon for those who own multiple blogs ofcourse!
July 28th, 2006 at 10:31 am
one word – great!
I have 4 blogs and its superb …
July 28th, 2006 at 10:41 am
One More suggestion: Please leave the “Log Out” button on the bar itself rather than in the dropdown menu!
July 28th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Great! I love the possibility to easily switch between blogs.
))
I’ve been here just for a couple of months, but I love WP more and more every day.
Now don’t feel too flattered and keep on working…
Flux
July 28th, 2006 at 11:18 am
This is pretty useless.
If I click on “New Post”, I don’t go immediately to the blog’s “Write” page — I go to the Dashboard. Why make something that worked before stop working? Why have the button at all, if we already have a “Dashboard” on the sidebar?
I hate to be totally negative for the second time in a row, but this new bar is completely pointless, looks busy, and is more trouble than it’s worth.
July 28th, 2006 at 11:53 am
the previous bar was fine
July 28th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Great! I appreciate very much the possibility to switch easily between blogs.
))
I’ve been here for just a couple of months but I love WP more and more every day.
Now do not feel too flattered and keep on working…
July 28th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Love it. I’ve been wanting a drop-down menu to selct which blog for “new post” for a while now. I never asked for it because I knew you would do it eventually. You’re tops in implementing good ideas.
Thanks! 
July 28th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
The new admin bar looks very powerful and useful, thank you guys!
July 28th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Beautiful! Splendid!
Way to go guys!!
July 28th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Very nice indeed!!!
July 28th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
I just like how the New Post link no longer only goes to your main blog.
July 28th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Like the new multiblog functionality. Two requests: let us add links to any of our blogs via dropdown menu like the Dashboard and New Post dropdowns now do (the new bar still only allows us to add links to the blog listed in our profile) and let us leave comments on WP.com blogs with different profiles. Example: I have a journal blog, a tech blog, a photo blog, etc. I want to leave comments on other WP.com photoblogs that link back to my photoblog and leave comments on WP.com tech blogs that link back to my tech blog. Right now, all my comments link back to the blog in my profile. Thanks for considering this!
July 28th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
ooo pretty, i like it! looks albeit like “Shuttle” (is it coming? *gasp*) very nice improvement. Nuff said.
July 28th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Nice Job! This is a welcomed change.
July 28th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Great…..!!!!!
July 28th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Nice work, guys. I’m very impressed with the continuously improving nature of WordPress. My blog, http://mrwiz.wordpress.com, is coming along nicely.
July 28th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
I think it’s great. I like not having to go to my blog homepage to get to my other dashboards. It can get a little annoying though because it pops down as soon as you pass the cursor over it… but it’s still great!
July 28th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
lovin it
July 28th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Good Job on the bar. Nice to not be stale.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Good work.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Only 1 negative opinion…..can’t please everyone. It’s a great bar. Keep up the terriffic upgrades they are appreciated.
July 29th, 2006 at 2:43 am
Really nice!
July 29th, 2006 at 6:42 am
–”Cool” –”Nice”??? It flashes non-stop, it covers/cuts off top of front page…it flickers so much I can’t focus long enough to even see what it says. I way don’t like it. What am I missing?
July 29th, 2006 at 8:29 am
thumbs up!
July 29th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
poppy8sd, sounds like you should send in a support request.
July 29th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Nice! i’m just having one problem now: the “new post” button goes to the admin panel instead of the “write” page.
Great anyway.
July 29th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Wow! It’s great work. Ajax is cool.
Thank u
July 29th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
poppy8sd’s comment brings up a good point as I have the same trouble – I think it’s a Vista or IE7 Thing.
I love the bar, as long as I use FF (I think someone should try to fix the IE7 Bug though, as it is due to be piped to users soon)
please don’t give me the Microsoft is Evil line, everyone makes mistakes – even Google and FireFox
July 30th, 2006 at 11:19 am
A tab for blog stats would be a good addition
July 30th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Great update. But please do _not_ follow the advice of a few to make the bar sticky, and always visible as you scroll down. Such implementations are too jerky,and annoying.
July 31st, 2006 at 5:40 pm
I have problems with the bar and IE7.
July 31st, 2006 at 9:29 pm
I like chdot’s idea re: adding a tab for blog stats.
August 1st, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Great job! Keep it up and Thank you.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:29 pm
A day late and more than a dollar shot…thanks. It makes things much simpler when posting for two logs. That was something that could have driven me to, ummm…lose my collective bargaining skills.
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:06 pm
makes a huge time saving difference for me
August 2nd, 2006 at 7:27 pm
We have yet to test the bar in IE7, but will do so with in the coming days.