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Some of my clients are using their WordPress installs with pages only, i.e. without any posts, and with comments turned off completely. This is often referred to as “WordPress as a CMS”. To free the screen from clutter I like to remove the comments link from the new/revised WordPress 3.3 Admin Bar. I also usually change the “+ New” link to default to creating a new page instead of creating a new post.

To accomplish this you can drop the following lines into your theme’s functions.php file:

<?php
function my_admin_bar_menu( $wp_admin_bar )
{
  $wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'comments' );
  $newpage = $wp_admin_bar->get_node( 'new-page' );
  $wp_admin_bar->add_node( array( 'id' => 'new-content', 'href' => $newpage->href, ) );
}
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'my_admin_bar_menu', 100 );

To find out more about the Admin Bar API you should check out this post by Andrew Nacin on the official WordPress Development Blog.