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.
Jul 27th at 9:26 pm
It’s great, much nicer than the old one.
Jul 27th at 9:27 pm
Very nice.
Jul 27th 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.
Jul 27th at 9:29 pm
Seems nice, especially the drop-down for posting. Thanks guys.
Seems like you’ve been busy lately
Jul 27th 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!
Jul 27th at 9:34 pm
Cool. I like the new one. Any plans to also put the admin bar at the bottom?
Jul 27th 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.
Jul 27th at 9:49 pm
looks good
Jul 27th at 9:54 pm
well done
Jul 27th at 10:02 pm
Very slick indeed!
Jul 27th at 10:06 pm
It’s really sleek and it looks like it will be easier to use. Great job!
Jul 27th 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.
Jul 27th at 10:07 pm
Now is much easier to manage several blogs at the same time! good work!
Jul 27th at 10:17 pm
I just LOVE the new admin bar!!! looks nice and more logical as well!! u guys rock!
Jul 27th at 10:24 pm
Thanks heaps for this, it is a much better way to handle multiple blogs!
V
Jul 27th at 10:37 pm
nice
Jul 27th 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.
Jul 27th at 10:41 pm
nice! I liked!
Jul 27th at 10:47 pm
Thanks, looks nice!
Jul 27th 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
Jul 27th at 10:51 pm
I like it.
Jul 27th 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?
Jul 27th at 11:08 pm
Hermosa ! very nice funcionality
Jul 27th 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…
Jul 27th at 11:19 pm
work fine!
Jul 27th at 11:19 pm
Very nice job!!
Thank you!
Jul 27th at 11:22 pm
I think, it’s just new design… for me it’s the same, what was previously…
Jul 27th 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!
Jul 28th at 12:10 am
Gostei da nova barra, parabéns! Hoje tive uma boa surpresa também, agora o WordPress está em português!!
Jul 28th 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
Jul 28th at 12:37 am
Nice work.. Not keen on the color change, though.
Jul 28th at 12:39 am
i like that. You’re really faster thankz.
wordpress rulaz.
Jul 28th 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.
Jul 28th at 2:04 am
Thanks so much for yet another wonderful feature!
Jul 28th at 2:14 am
keep up the good work guys!
Jul 28th 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!
Jul 28th at 2:41 am
Excellent! Just posted this week’s Thursday Humor segment over at Wondrous Inventions and noticed the new admin bar.
Jul 28th at 2:58 am
Like this one
Jul 28th at 3:27 am
I just logged on and I was like whoah. Thanks again!
Jul 28th at 3:34 am
Nice new feature. But if you only have it “static”, no more scrolling up to find the dropdown. Overall GREAT!
Jul 28th at 3:45 am
it’s great! esp now we can choose which blog we would like to post from. great work as usual!! =)
Jul 28th 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!
Jul 28th at 4:34 am
Very handy, slick. i like the w-logo i the middle.
Jul 28th 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.
Jul 28th 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!
Jul 28th at 5:28 am
This is a great improvement! Thanks Matt!
Jul 28th at 6:50 am
rapid improvements is wat made wordpress great! carry on with the excellant job!
Jul 28th at 6:55 am
I love these new features..thanks!
Jul 28th at 6:59 am
Sure, it’s better now. That’s all i expected.
http://bmw7.wordpress.com
Jul 28th at 6:59 am
i totally like the new admin bar, at least you have some design on it rather that a plain one
Jul 28th at 7:04 am
Looks superb but I get errors when ever I use the bar, it says that it isn’t redirecting properly???
Jul 28th 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!
Jul 28th 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!
Jul 28th 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.
Jul 28th 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.
Jul 28th 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
Jul 28th at 8:47 am
its great… i was suprise to see the new look of the admin bar…
Jul 28th at 8:55 am
Nice, and very useful if you have more than one blog like me. Thx for all the hard work.
Jul 28th 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?
Jul 28th 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?
Jul 28th 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!
Jul 28th at 10:31 am
one word – great!
I have 4 blogs and its superb …
Jul 28th at 10:41 am
One More suggestion: Please leave the “Log Out” button on the bar itself rather than in the dropdown menu!
Jul 28th 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
Jul 28th 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.
Jul 28th at 11:53 am
the previous bar was fine
Jul 28th 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…
Jul 28th 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! 
Jul 28th at 2:59 pm
The new admin bar looks very powerful and useful, thank you guys!
Jul 28th at 3:19 pm
Beautiful! Splendid!
Way to go guys!!
Jul 28th at 3:30 pm
Very nice indeed!!!
Jul 28th at 4:10 pm
I just like how the New Post link no longer only goes to your main blog.
Jul 28th 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!
Jul 28th at 5:03 pm
ooo pretty, i like it! looks albeit like “Shuttle” (is it coming? *gasp*) very nice improvement. Nuff said.
Jul 28th at 6:04 pm
Nice Job! This is a welcomed change.
Jul 28th at 6:09 pm
Great…..!!!!!
Jul 28th 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.
Jul 28th 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!
Jul 28th at 7:47 pm
lovin it
Jul 28th at 8:11 pm
Good Job on the bar. Nice to not be stale.
Jul 28th at 8:14 pm
Good work.
Jul 28th 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.
Jul 29th at 2:43 am
Really nice!
Jul 29th 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?
Jul 29th at 8:29 am
thumbs up!
Jul 29th at 5:20 pm
poppy8sd, sounds like you should send in a support request.
Jul 29th 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.
Jul 29th at 8:50 pm
Wow! It’s great work. Ajax is cool.
Thank u
Jul 29th 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
Jul 30th at 11:19 am
A tab for blog stats would be a good addition
Jul 30th 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.
Jul 31st at 5:40 pm
I have problems with the bar and IE7.
Jul 31st at 9:29 pm
I like chdot’s idea re: adding a tab for blog stats.
Aug 1st at 2:54 pm
Great job! Keep it up and Thank you.
Aug 1st 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.
Aug 2nd at 3:06 pm
makes a huge time saving difference for me
Aug 2nd at 7:27 pm
We have yet to test the bar in IE7, but will do so with in the coming days.