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admin bar shows even when it shouldn't

hey everyone,

I'm working on a theme for a "non-blogging" Wordpress web site.
In it I have a frontpage.php that is set as static. The problem i have is when I open it in Firefox I still see a margin at the top of frontpage where the admin bar would be. In Chrome it does not show.
In the head section of the header.php there is a <?php wp_head(); ?> tag that if I hide, then the margin is gone. Can i leave this tag out of the header file or is there a way to leave it in and make sure it's always hidden when not logged in?

Thanks,
Roger K

Jason C. Levine

How are you hiding the admin bar? From the user preferences or via a plugin?

wp_head() is a non-critical function, so if you remove it and everything else still works, that's probably ok.

rogerk_fsww

ASKER

Hi Jason,

I am new to WP so I'm not sure how it's hidden.
I created a new template page for the home page called frontpage.php using a modified index.php to take out the posts loop. One thing I noticed is that in firebug the head contains this snippet at the end of the head section:
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<style media="print" type="text/css">
#wpadminbar { display:none; }
</style>
<style media="screen" type="text/css">
html { margin-top: 28px !important; }
* html body { margin-top: 28px !important; }
</style>
</head>
-----------------
It appears that this is the margin that I am seeing even though I am just viewing the site from a browser window from /localhost/wordpress/ Not the /localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/ that I think is where it should be appearing. I'm not really clear on how the login part for the blog works. The puzzling thing is that I see it in Firefox but not in Chrome. I guess the easiest thing is just to take out the <?php wp_head(); ?> tag. I just didn't know if that would mess anything else up. I still want to use a page for blogging somewhere after the frontpage.

Thanks again, Roger K

Jason C. Levine

You could also just kill the CSS:

<style media="screen" type="text/css">
html { margin-top: 28px !important; }
* html body { margin-top: 28px !important; }
</style>

rogerk_fsww

ASKER

I wondered if that would be a problem later with other pages or logging into the admin interface?
I will try that and see what happens when I use the admiin page.
When I have tested it I will get back with results.

Do you think this is a "normal" behavior or did I mess something up with the whole WP theme?
That's what worries me about removing any of the stock code.

later, Roger

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rogerk_fsww

ASKER

Jason,

One other thought I had was using a conditional php statement to disable it on the front page.
If I did that could I still get into the admin pages? Or would i have to add an Admin login page elsewhere?
My nubie mind has not completely wrapped around the intricacies of WP.

Thanks always.

rogerk_fsww

ASKER

Jason,

I got your last response while I was writing my next question.
I think I would like to get rid of the bar too, Just too new to know if i have to have it for other stuff.

Roger K

Jason C. Levine

No one needs the Admin Bar. I wouldn't be surprised to see it die off over time, or at least be set to non-visible by default

rogerk_fsww

ASKER

Great job Jason. Thanks.

rogerk_fsww

ASKER

Hey Jason,

Forgot to ask which plugin you used?

Roger K

Jason C. Levine

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-admin-bar-hide-or-remove/

rogerk_fsww

ASKER

Awesome - Thanks.
Now back to work on the site.