The WordPress.com Toolbar feature replaces the default admin bar and offers quick links to the Reader, all your sites, your WordPress.com profile, and notifications.
To activate the toolbar, go to Jetpack → Settings → Writing and enable the “Enable the WordPress.com toolbar” feature.
Here’s more details about each menu in the Toolbar:
- My Site (or My Sites) will take you to the main menu for your primary site. From there you can create posts, pages, manage settings, and switch to the same options for your other sites, if you have more than one.
- Reader takes you to the WordPress.com Reader menu where you can see the latest posts from any sites that you follow, browse topics (tags), or peruse Discover.
- Write will start a new post in the WordPress.com editor.
- Profile will give you a dropdown menu with all the options on the My Profile dashboard page, including Sign Out, Account Settings, Manage Purchases and Security.
- Notifications will open a dropdown that displays your latest notifications, including recent likes and comments.
Privacy Information
This feature is deactivated by default. If you ever need to deactivate this feature, you can toggle the Enable the WordPress.com toolbar setting in the WordPress.com toolbar section from Jetpack — Settings — Writing in your dashboard.
| Data Used | |
|---|---|
| Site Owners / Users This feature uses the Gravatar image URL of the logged-in user in order to display it in the toolbar, as well as the WordPress.com user ID of the logged-in user.Additionally, for activity tracking (detailed below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. | Site Visitors None. |
| Activity Tracked | |
| Site Owners / Users We track when, and by which user, the feature is activated and deactivated. We also track when, and which user clicked on any of the links available within the toolbar. | Site Visitors None. |
| Data Synced (Read More) | |
| Site Owners / Users We sync a single option that identifies whether the feature is activated. | Site Visitors None. |
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