Admin Bar Editor Pro

Admin Bar Editor Pro costs $89 once for 5 sites. The annual plan costs $29 a year, so the lifetime license pays for itself after 37 months. Over five years you save $56 compared with renewing every year.

The Admin Bar Editor Pro lifetime deal is worth it if you want a tidy, branded toolbar on a few sites for years. Even the entry lifetime plan is meant for several sites and includes lifetime updates and support, which suits freelancers who give a handful of client sites the same clean toolbar.

It pays off less if all you need is to hide the toolbar, or if you want to change the admin menu and dashboard as well, since the plugin focuses on the toolbar only. For more sites, the lifetime tiers for 15 and 100 sites are the next step. You have 14 days to ask for a refund.

Admin Bar Editor starts as a free plugin on wordpress.org. It is the easiest way to see how drag and drop ordering of the toolbar feels before you pay, and to check that it works with the plugins on your site.

Admin Bar Editor Pro gives you the full set: reorder items in the backend and on the front end, rename them, swap icons or the WordPress logo, add custom links with submenus, style the bar with your own colors and gradients and move it to the bottom of the screen.

A big reason to use the plugin is control per user: you hide single items or the whole bar for specific roles or usernames, so clients and editors see only the links they need. These rules are set once and rarely change, which suits a one-time license better than a yearly plan.

The lifetime license replaces yearly renewals with one payment and keeps updates and support running. Lifetime tiers cover 5, 15 and 100 sites.

You install the plugin, activate your license and open the editor. Start with the order and the visibility rules per role, then add custom links and styling. Check the result while logged in as each role, both in the backend and on the front end.

Sites

5 sites

Updates

For life

Support

For life

Money back guarantee

14 days

Taken from the vendor’s pricing page, like the price above.

On the market since

2011

Active installs

3,000+ free version on wordpress.org

Rating

4.3 out of 5 on wordpress.org

Current version

1.1.10

Last update

Aug 29, 2026

Figures from the public plugin directory, checked on Oct 4, 2026. wordpress.org listing(opens in a new tab)

We note every change to the lifetime price we find on the vendor’s page. The history starts with our first check.