Bartender4
Bartender4 is a full ActionBar replacement mod. It provides you with all the features needed to fully customization most aspects of your action and related bars.
Bartender4 in Midnight: As of version 4.16.5, Midnight support is in preview - it'll be worked on until release, of course.
Major Changes since Dragonflight / 10.0
- Hold-to-cast is not currently available for addons
- Action Bars have been slightly re-arranged in Bartender4 for Dragonflight and beyond
- Bar 1-8 now reflect Blizzard Bars 1-8 (these are old 1, 3-6, and the 3 new bars)
- The old bars 7-10 are now called "Class Bar 1-4" (Shapeshifting, Stances, etc)
- The old bar 2 is now called Bonus Action Bar
Features
- Support for all Action Bars and all related bars
- 10 Action Bars (13 in Dragonflight & War Within!)
- Stance Bar
- Pet Bar
- Bag Bar
- Micro Menu
- XP/Reputation Bar
- All Bars are fully customizable (Scale, Alpha, Fade-Out settings, ...)
- Very flexible and customizable Show/Hide driver based on Macro Conditions
- Additional Layout and Paging settings for Action Bars
- Page all bars based on Stance or Modifier
- Possess Bar support
- Custom State driver support with Macro Conditions
- Options to hide specific elements of the buttons (Macro Text, HotKey, more could be added on demand)
- StickyFrames support
- Masque/ButtonFacade support!
- Easy Hotkey Binding using KeyBound
- Options to control the hiding of the default blizzard artwork (you might still want that to be displayed..)
FAQ
Q: I cannot move/drag my skills on my bars?
A: Hold Shift to move skills safely. You can also unlock your bars in the Bartender4 options, but using Shift is safer and recommended.
Q: How do i access the Configuration?
A: You can open the configuration with the Slash Commands (/bt or /bartender) or through the Bartender4 LDB plugin.
Q: Where are my keybindings? And how do i bind new keys?
A: Bartender4 buttons should automatically inherit keybindings from the Blizzard bars. For new keybindings, you can use KeyBound to re-bind your keys. You can access KeyBound by its slash command (/kb) or through the button in the BT4 config. Hover a button, press key → voila!
Q: Can I skin the buttons beyond the built-in options?
A: Bartender4 allows skinning through Masque! After installing both Bartender4 and Masque, you can customize the BT4 appearance in the Masque options.
Q: How do i disable the snapping of the bars?
A: Currently, you can temporarily override the snapping by holding down the Shift Key while moving your bars, or uncheck the option in the popup when your bars are unlocked.
Feature Requests/Bug Tracker
Please submit Bugs and/or Feature Requests using the Ticket System on the WoWAce Project page or in the Bartender4 Forum Thread. Please provide as many information as possible, including your client language, the exact version you are running, how to reproduce any errors, and a stack trace, if applicable.
Links
WoWAce Project: Bartender4 on WoWAce
Custom State Header: Info page on WoWAce
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Posted Nov 5, 2026this addon puts the fishing cast bar inside of my default actionbar at the very bottom
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Posted Nov 5, 2026In Forever the XP bar text are 'under' the Grid of the Bar. Can you please set it for top layer? Thank you Nevcairiel!
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Posted Nov 5, 2026The XP bar in Forever doesn't have an option to display percentage and/or values, without mousing over the bar, and i couldn't find the option in the default settings
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Posted Nov 5, 2026bartender does not work correctly on wow forever
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Posted Nov 5, 2026i cannot customize bars nor remove bliz art bar. please advise. TYVM
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Posted Nov 3, 2026(Retail) I get a lag spike specifically from bartender when switching forms on druid any fixes to this?
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Posted Nov 3, 2026(On Retail) Sometimes the out-of-range indicator color overlay on buttons gets stuck, showing out of range even if I'm 0 yards from my target, the only way to make it work is to drop target and re-target.
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Posted Oct 25, 2026In MoP and TBC, the GCD shadow that covers the icon/keybind and that goes clockwise for its duration, is not covering the whole icon, leaving gaps that are VERY annoying. Months like this and still no fix.
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Posted Oct 25, 2026BT4 not working at all in Pandaria aka "Classic" -- not even registering. Last version my game recognizes is 4.15.10
BUT only utility bars are functional. Action bars, not so much. Pulling up " General" tab generates a blank.
Bugsack reports
"3x Bartender4/ButtonBar.lua:263: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)
[tail call]: ?
[C]: ?
[Bartender4/ButtonBar.lua]:263: in function 'GetAll'
[Bartender4/ActionBar.lua]:123: in function 'func'
[Bartender4/Bar.lua]:213: in function 'ForAll'
[Bartender4/Options/Options.lua]:137: in function <Bartender4/Options/Options.lua:132>"
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Posted Oct 23, 2026P.S. I'm not sure where to post this actually, but a search on Curseforge for "Action Bars" lists pages of stuff - but Bartender is not one of the choices offered...
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Posted Oct 23, 2026(Adding More information) Whatever is being displayed does not appear to be a "numbered bar." Infecting myself as a zombie without any action bar addon loaded, and I see that EVERY numbered action bar you can switch to with the "roll arrows" seems to be "overloaded" with the same custom action bar which contains the following Spells: Mangle!, Retch!, Beckoning Groan, Lurch! and Zombie Explosion!.
And whatever it is, it's not just Bartender. I tried an assortment of other Action Bar replacements and they all behaved similarly (ForeverUI, Ellesmere, and a couple of other randos I'd never heard of.)
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Posted Oct 22, 2026The XP bar appears to be missing. Using version 4.18.3.1 on TBC classic
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Posted Oct 22, 2026Tonight, Blizzard introduced some form of "Zombie apocalypse" event in the Wow Forever Beta. Once you were turned into a zombie, there was no way to access the "menu bar 1" that was somehow substituted by Blizzard for your regular menu bar 1. In fact, it wasn't until I unloaded all add-ons while testing something else that I realized that the menu bar had been substituted and that were actually actions for you to use as a zombie on the action bar when you were in that form.
While I don't think it horribly likely that the zombie form will become part of normal play, I'm not certain that there are not similar instances where Blizzard does "something to the menu bar." Therefore, I wanted to point this out as it seems likely that Bartender will disrupt this "substitute menu bars" process as it did when you were changed to a zombie. If this same mechanism is used in places in normal game play it will likely be frustrating and confusing as there's no indication that you aren't seeing some intended portion of the interface unless you unload the Bartender add-on.
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Posted Oct 22, 2026LUA_WARNING: GetAuraDataByIndex(): Auras cannot be accessed when secret while tainted by 'Bartender4' LUA Taint: Bartender 4
136x Blizzard_ActionBar/Shared/ActionButton.lua:891: bad argument #1 to 'SetCooldown' (Usage: self:SetCooldown(start, duration [, modRate]). Secret values are only allowed during untainted execution for this argument.)
[Blizzard_ActionBar/Shared/ActionButton.lua]:891: in function <...ce/AddOns/Blizzard_ActionBar/Shared/ActionButton.lua:889>
[Blizzard_ActionBar/Shared/ActionButton.lua]:910: in function 'ActionButton_ApplyCooldown'
[Blizzard_ActionBar/Shared/ActionButton.lua]:886: in function 'ActionButton_UpdateCooldown'
[Blizzard_ActionBar/Shared/ActionButton.lua]:1011: in function 'OnEvent'
[Blizzard_ActionBar/Shared/ActionButton.lua]:233: in function <...ce/AddOns/Blizzard_ActionBar/Shared/ActionButton.lua:230>
Locals:
cooldown=MultiCastActionButton5Cooldown <ActionButtonTemplate.xml:111>
start=<secret number>
duration=<secret number>
enable=true
modRate=<secret number>
Not sure if this all Bartender or if something else is interfering. Hasn't happen before tonight.
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Posted Oct 18, 2026Currently enabling Bartender in Forever hides the totem bar and there is no option to enable the totem bar that I can find
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Posted Oct 18, 2026@stark8819 I was seeing the same thing. I wound up installing SmartTotem for now. It works with Bartender.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/smarttotem
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Posted Oct 19, 2026In reply to stark8819:
I posted a hack to enable it in https://www.wowace.com/projects/bartender4?comment=10159
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Posted Oct 17, 2026Can you fix the mouseover for WoW Forever? Its kinda pointless using Bartender if you can't mousover and have to create 100 macros again for every spell...
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Posted Oct 16, 2026Hi would it be possible to add CD timer threshold colors for actionbars? also is its possible to show cd timer even when you have an available charge of the ability?
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Posted Oct 16, 2026The mouseover options arent working on Forever. Tried the global setting and the per bar setting, same result both times.