Since releasing the WordPress Admin Bar Improved, I have been looking around at the different WordPress Admin Bars that are available to see what I can do to improve mine. Well, I came across the Grand-Daddy of Admin Bars – the Admin Drop Down Menu from Ozh! I had read about it on some blog or another, and decided to check it out for myself. It TOTALLY BLOWS OUT (sorry Viper007Bond) anything I have ever seen before! Not only is it themeable (in a totally awesome sort of way – I mean c’mon, it has it’s own color picker!!!), but it has full API support for developers to add their own custom icon to the menu items created by their extensions!

Much like Viper007Bond, Ozh has NO PLANS on releasing this with front-end support – he does not want this to work if a user is logged out. I have other plans though. I am going to create another plugin that will detect which admin bar you have running (either Ozh’s or Viper007Bond’s) and pull it onto the frontpage if the user is logged in. If the user is not logged in, it will display a login form as well some relevant links for users when they visit your site.

I am not sure when this is going to get done – but I will post updates here.

If you want to help with development, please contact me here. If you want to help even more, you could send me a donation @ dilbert4life@gmail.com. Donation module to come soon. :)