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Is Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles – Disable the WordPress Toolbar by Role, Device or Page still maintained?

Its last release was this month. Shipping normally.

Maintenance
ACTIVE
shipping normally — last release 2026-08-23.
Active installs
20k
as the directory reports it, in buckets — a floor rather than a count.
Rating
3.9★
from 20 ratings. no support threads to resolve.

This measures maintenance, not quality. A small, finished plugin that genuinely needed no changes in three years grades ABANDONED here and may still be the right choice. What the grade tells you is whether anyone is there if something breaks.

By Ankit Panchal, tested up to WordPress 7.1. Listing on wordpress.org.

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Selected mechanically, not editorially: shipped within 12 months, 1,000+ installs, and 3.5 stars or better where 10+ people rated it. Ranked by install count. Nobody paid to be on this list and there is nothing to pay for.

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