Bonsai No Toolbar Edit

A minimal WordPress plugin that hides the default admin toolbar on the front end and replaces it with two fixed icon links: WP Dashboard and Edit Page.

Features

• Hides the standard WordPress admin bar (show_admin_bar) on the front end only — wp-admin is untouched.
• Renders a small fixed icon panel on every front-end page with:
  • WP Dashboard — links to wp-admin.
  • Edit Page — links straight to the editor for the current singular post/page. Hidden automatically when there's no editable post for the current view (archives, search results, 404s, etc.) or the user can't edit that specific post.
  • Icons are hardcoded inline SVGs (not an icon font), so they render regardless of whether the active theme loads dashicons on the front end. Both carry a title and screen-reader-only text, so the link purpose is still available to assistive tech and on hover.
• Corner placement (top right / top left / bottom right / bottom left) is configurable under Settings → No Toolbar Edit. Defaults to top right.
• Link hover/focus colour is configurable on the same settings page (native colour picker) so it can match a client brand. Defaults to the Bonsai pink #ee4367.
• Restricted to users who can edit_posts by default (filterable via bonsai_notoolbar_edit_capability). The settings page itself requires manage_options by default (filterable via bonsai_notoolbar_edit_settings_capability).
• Two options (bne_placement, bne_hover_color) stored in the database; removed on uninstall.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0+
• PHP 8.0+

Usage

1. Activate the plugin.
2. Go to Settings → No Toolbar Edit and choose a corner placement (defaults to top right).
3. Log in as a user who can edit content (author or above) and view the front end — the standard toolbar is gone, replaced by the two fixed icon links in the chosen corner.
4. Logged-out visitors and users without edit_posts see no change.

Filters

• bonsai_notoolbar_edit_capability — capability required to hide the toolbar and see the fixed links. Defaults to edit_posts.
• bonsai_notoolbar_edit_settings_capability — capability required to access the settings page. Defaults to manage_options.

// Restrict the front-end links to administrators only
add_filter( 'bonsai_notoolbar_edit_capability', function () {
    return 'manage_options';
} );

Data Structure

Two options are stored:

• bne_placement (string) — one of top-right, top-left, bottom-right, bottom-left.
• bne_hover_color (string) — a hex colour (e.g. #ee4367) used for the icon links' hover/focus background.

Both are deleted when the plugin is uninstalled.

Updates

Ships with YahnisElsts/plugin-update-checker (installed via Composer, vendor/ committed) pointed at github.com/Bonsai-Systems/bonsai-notoolbar-edit. Sites with the plugin installed will see updates in Plugins in wp-admin, same as bonsai-code-injector and bonsai-maintenance.

To ship a new version:

1. Bump the Version: header in bonsai-notoolbar-edit.php and add a CHANGELOG.md entry.
2. Commit and push to main.
3. Publish a GitHub Release tagged with the new version (release-assets mode is enabled, so attach a zip of the plugin folder — plain source-archive tags won't be picked up).

Sites check for updates every 6 hours ($checkPeriod argument to buildUpdateChecker()), or immediately if an admin clicks "Check again" on the Plugins screen.