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in your plugins folder (if you don’t already have one created) create a file called bp-custom.php

within that file put:

<?php



function new_search_action() {

global $bp;



return apply_filters( 'new_search_action', $bp->root_domain . '/search' );

}



function custom_adminbar_search() {

$mobSearch = '

<li class="align-right"><form  action="' . new_search_action() . '" method="post" id="search-form">

<input type="text" id="search-terms" name="search-terms" value="" />

<input type="submit" name="search-submit" id="search-submit" value="" />



' . bp_search_form_type_select() . '



' . wp_nonce_field( 'bp_search_form' ) . '

</form></li>

';



echo apply_filters( 'bp_search_form', $mobSearch );

}

add_action('bp_adminbar_menus', 'custom_adminbar_search', 100);



?>

This will get your search to the top, and placed on top of your “visit” button. If you get rid of the class="align-right" in the list tag, then it’ll put it beside the notification button. You’ll notice that things seem a little screwy when you scale the page, so you’ll need to play around with putting a div around it etc etc. But at least this’ll get it up there for you.

To remove items from your admin bar:

function modify_adminbar(){

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_logo', 'bp_adminbar_logo' );

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bp_adminbar_login_menu', 2 );

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bp_adminbar_account_menu', 4 );

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bp_adminbar_blogs_menu', 6 );

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bp_adminbar_notifications_menu', 8 );

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bp_adminbar_authors_menu', 12 );

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bp_adminbar_random_menu', 100 );

}

add_action('plugins_loaded','modify_adminbar',99);

This removes ALL of the previous functions, so lets say you want to remove.. the visit button:

function modify_adminbar(){

remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bp_adminbar_random_menu', 100 );

}

add_action('plugins_loaded','modify_adminbar',99);

And there you go. Hope that helped.

To move the search try adding this to your CSS:

#search-form {margin-right:30px;}

You can also hide the ‘Visit’ menu item with the following CSS:

#bp-adminbar-visitrandom-menu{display:none}

@Nick Watson: Sorry for using the thread but I still haven’t figured out how to add new navigation items to the admin bar. I would for example like to add WP categories and some hard coded links in the admin bar. How do I do?

In your theme’s CSS file, you need to declare this:


#wp-admin-bar ul.main-nav li.align-right:hover{
background: none !important;
}

That should do it, as long as you have not modified the code above at all.

Hi guys! Awesome thread, but can someone help me get rid of the little downward triangle from the “visit” item? I removed the item according to the code @nickbwatson posted above, but the little arrow thing is still there, showing behind the text of my new admin bar search’s submit button. It goes away when hovered over, if that explains anything. I’m kind of at a loss.

Here’s my site. The search bar in question is at the far right of my admin bar, and the submit button says “find it!”

TIA!

ETA: I guess a link would help, lol

http://www.riotcart.com

I followed nick’s instructions above to remove the visit link from the admin bar. I must have done something wrong because it is still there. Any ideas?

http://isportsweb.com