Title: Customizing the admin bar
Last modified: April 4, 2017

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# Customizing the admin bar

 *  [viruseater](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viruseater/)
 * (@viruseater)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-admin-bar/)
 * we are using an ELB at Amazon for a customer with a large traffic site. We do
   this and automate spinning up instances when traffic warrants.
 * this makes upgrading tough because there can be as many as 10 servers feeding
   the site.
 * I have special code i can use that will tell me what instance I’m viewing at 
   the time. I would like to be able to display that info in a text placement in
   the admin bar, but i am new to doing this with WordPress.
 * Can someone point me in the right direction to do this? and example would be,
   just to the right of the WP logo on the left side of the admin bar, i’d be displaying
   text ‘instance ID: x’

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-admin-bar/#post-8993893)
 * You mainly add items with [$wp_admin_bar->add_menu()](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_menu)(
   or the analogous add_node()). For more context, review the /wp-includes/admin-
   bar.php file for how core code sets up the default items.

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