Wordpress Admin Bar Not Showing on frontend of sit

Question

Please could anyone help me with this problem? The wordpress admin bar is not displaying on the front-end (public visible pages) of my website. It shows when I'm logged in at the backend i.e Dashboard though. User settings are ok (set to show admin bar when viewing the site). I have tried deactivating (then, re-activating ) installed plugins, still no show.

Just a background note: I recently transferred the site to my webhost (I was developing locally and everything worked and is still working). And I have a custom folder for wordpress. I was wondering if the problem has to do with this.

Please help I have searched everywhere but seems everyone is looking to hide the admin panel instead.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

My #wpadminbar had a z-index: 99999;

In an act of myopia I made a sticky header that was in conflict with the Admin bar's stickiness. I had a z-index greater than the admin, making it rest behind the visible div.

I made my own sticky less powerful.

Answer 2

Does it 'know' that you are logged in ? when in front end ? ie: meta widget shows 'logout' instead of login. if not Did you by any chance play around with the cookie paths?

I got myself confused because I was logged in at backend, but not front end. This was because I'd being playing with the cookie path and forgot to uncomment what I'd done.

Answer 3

Make sure site addresses are the same! I had one set at http://www.example.com and the other (WordPress) address set to http://example.com or visa versa.

I had them set this way because I though it was needed for the site to show up when you type the url without the www.

Now that both addresses are the same (with the www) my admin bar works, I stay logged in, I can comment, see preview or draft content, cross-site authenticate and logout, wow!

an entire year of wondering why WP just never worked right across over 30 websites!

Going to change addresses to the same "www" address in the rest of my 30 sites now and enjoy error-free WordPress for the first time ever...it's a great day!

Remember to remove any admin bar code you may have added in your theme's function.php file or in your styles.CSS

Thanks to all who help us here!

Answer 4

wp_footer() , 

add this function to footer.php

Answer 5

I know this is an old question, but another option - If you purchased (use) a pre-made theme make sure that theme does not remove the toolbar in its code.

Answer 6

Beware of unclosed HTML tags above <?php wp_footer(); ?>. Unclosed tags in the source will have closing tags generated by the browser and can suck in the WordPress admin bar HTML.

...
    <div class="hidden-by-css">
      <span> You can't see this</span>

    <?php wp_footer(); ?>
  </body>
</html>

That will cause the HTML generated for the admin bar to get sucked into the .hidden-by-css DIV and your admin bar won't show up.

So make sure you close all your tags. :)