Edit specific nodes in WP_Admin_Bar

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1. Yes I recently ran into the situation where I wanted to change the profile link in the user-info section of the admin bar. The problem is that you can only get all nodes, add and remove them. Not edit. And you also cannot modify the $wp_admin_bar->nodes property due it is private.

   When easily removing and adding them, you’ll lose your order and the whole thing looks horrible. Now here is my solution:

   // void jw_edit_admin_bar ( mixed $id , string $property , string $value )
   
   if(!function_exists('jw_edit_admin_bar')) {
       function jw_edit_admin_bar($id, $property, $value) {
           global $wp_admin_bar;
   
           if(!is_array($id)) {
               $id = array($id);
           }
   
           $all_nodes = $wp_admin_bar->get_nodes();
   
           foreach($all_nodes as $key => $val) {
               $current_node = $all_nodes[$key];
               $wp_admin_bar->remove_node($key);
   
               if(in_array($key, $id)) {
                   $current_node->$property = $value;
               }
   
               $wp_admin_bar->add_node($current_node);
           }
       }
   }
   
   add_action('admin_bar_menu', function() { jw_edit_admin_bar(array('user-info', 'my-account'), 'href', 'http://www.nyan.cat'); });
   

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2. Ok, so I recently ran into an issue trying to create a custom Holiday/Time of Day Greeting for the WordPress Admin Toolbar and ran across this answer, which led me down a path of hours of wasted time since it is actually completely unnecessary. You don’t need to destroy and rebuild the admin toolbar to edit a node.

   The simple solution for Julien’s issue is a 5 line addition to your functions.php file that replaces the desired url:

       //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   /* change location of user profile page in admin toolbar */
   add_filter( 'edit_profile_url', 'update_admin_bar_user_profile_url', 10, 3 );
   function update_admin_bar_user_profile_url( $url, $user_id, $scheme ) {
       $url = site_url( '/edit-user-profile/' );
       return $url;
   }
   //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   

   Now if you want to get a bit deeper into editing/manipulating the the Admin Toolbar – you can do something like this, which adds the website url of the user, if they entered one in their profile page, as a node to the Users Profile Panel (aka a link in the “sub-menu”):

       /* --- add the user website link node in the admin toolbar --- */
   add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'update_admin_bar_user_node', 250 );
   function update_admin_bar_user_node( $wp_admin_bar ) {
       $user_id = get_current_user_id();
       $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
       $profile_url = get_edit_profile_url( $user_id );
   
       if ( ! $user_id )
               return;
   
       if ( current_user_can( 'read' ) ) {
           $profile_url = get_edit_profile_url( $user_id );
       } elseif ( is_multisite() ) {
           $profile_url = get_dashboard_url( $user_id, 'profile.php' );
       } else {
           $profile_url = false;
       }
   
       // Add the users website/link to the user-actions sub-menu if they have one 
       $my_account = $wp_admin_bar->get_node( 'my-account' );
       if( ! empty( $current_user->user_url ) && $my_account ){
           $wp_admin_bar->add_node( array(
               'parent'    => 'user-actions',
               'id'        => 'user-url',
               'title'     => '<span class="user-url">' . __( 'My Website' ) . '</span>',
               'href'      => esc_url( $current_user->user_url )
           ) );
       }       
   }
   

   Here is a screenshot of how that change looks in the “my-account” “user-actions” menu:
   

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