The wordpress tool bar at the top of the screen has gone?

Check that you haven’t disabled the Admin bar in your profile.

Hi Esmi, thanks for the reply.

The “show admin bar – when viewing site” is checked.

I also unchecked this option to see the effects and found that the grey space where my admin bar should be disappears.

So when that option is checked I see a grey space where the admin bar should be, but no buttons or options.

1) Verify that you have the wp_footer() template tag, immediately before the closing </body> tag.

2) Check functions.php, to verify nothing is filtering out the display of the Admin Bar.

3) Check for any JS errors, using Firefox Firebug or Chrome Developer Tools

Hi Chip, Thanks for the options you have given. I am new to wordpress and coding so slightly confused with your response.

1) what is the wp_footer? I do not have that immediately before the closing body tag, and when I add it, it screws up the footer?

2) what is the fuction I should be calling for or looking at?

3) I have firebug, how would I use it to check for errors? or what should I be looking about for?

in my settings I ticked both the boxes for how to view the admin bar, so it is viewable in the dashboard and on the site. When I am in dashboard I can see and use the admin bar.

1) <?php wp_footer(); ?> is a template tag, that applies a very important hook in the Theme. If it’s not there now already, then it needs to be there.

(When you added wp_footer(), did the Admin Bar appear?)

2) Look for add_filter() or remove_filter(), in combination with “Admin Bar”.

3) You should be looking for JavaScript errors.

Hi, I’m having the same issue. Where exactly would one look for wp_footer() template tag? And also javascript errors in Firebug, would they be obvious?

Normally, the wp_footer() template tag is immediately before the closing HTML </body> tag.

Look in “footer.php”, in most Themes.

Hi, I found the problem. Another thread reported that the cookie set by the previous version of WP is slightly different than the new cookie. So I did as the poster did, logged out and logged back in, and there was the bar.

Maybe this will be the case for someone else. A painless solution, at any rate…

when i add the wp_footer() to the footer.php and update the site, nothing happens apart from the word “wp_footer()” appearing at the bottom of the page, under the footer

when i add the wp_footer() to the footer.php and update the site, nothing happens apart from the word “wp_footer()” appearing at the bottom of the page, under the footer

…did you wrap the function call in PHP tags? e.g.

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

I had wrapped the tag.

I tried it again today and it seems to have done the trick, so thanks you Chip, your help was much appreciated.