I am trying to hide WordPress admin bar from all pages except the home page.

I added the following CODE in the theme's functions.php file, but it hides the admin bar on all pages:

if ( ! is_single() ) {
   add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' );
}

I want it to appear only on the homepage and to be hidden everywhere else.

I am trying to hide WordPress admin bar from all pages except the home page.

I added the following CODE in the theme's functions.php file, but it hides the admin bar on all pages:

if ( ! is_single() ) {
   add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' );
}

I want it to appear only on the homepage and to be hidden everywhere else.

• admin-bar

4 Answers 4

You should use conditional tag inside function hooked to show_admin_bar filter.

add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', 'show_adminbar_on_homepage_only', 20 );
function show_adminbar_on_homepage_only()
{
     return is_user_logged_in() && is_front_page();
}

Could be a priority issue, meaning that some plugin / theme function is overriding the admin bar behaviour. Try something like this:

if (!is_home() && !is_front_page()){
   add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false', 999);
}

If this work, let's try to understand which plugins are and assign the right priority, like a lower 99 or whatever.

Here's a better way to do it that improves on the existing answers:

add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', function ( $show ) {

    if ( is_front_page() ) {
        return false;
    }

    return $show;
}, 50 );

Unlike the other code examples given, this snippet will only change the admin bar visibility if currently viewing the front page. Otherwise, it will use whatever the default is set to. This removes the need to account for different cases where the user is not logged in.

You should check if page is home page and/or front page. is_front_page() returns true when viewing the site's front page (blog posts index or a static page), is_home() returns true when viewing the blog posts index. try as below,

if (!is_home() && !is_front_page()){
   add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');
}

or

if (!is_home()){
   add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');
}