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You are here: Home / plugins / How to replace “Howdy,” with your own text

How to replace “Howdy,” with your own text

At WordCamp Bournemouth earlier this month someone mentioned that their customer really disliked the “Howdy,” message at the top right of the WordPress admin bar. There are already a number of plugins that replace the text. I looked at a couple and they did similar things, some doing it better than others.
Plugin name and descriptionPlugin linksVersion, total downloads, last update, tested
Edit Howdy
This plugin allows you to change the "Howdy" message to whatever text message you would like.
edit-howdy
home
1.0.3
5831
2014-12-14 8:34pm GMT
3.3.2
Contributors: manoj kumar
*This plugin allow you to replace the "Howdy" text with "your text". *you can also replace login logo and login username
change-login-screen-to-your-choice
home
1.0.1
1023
2014-01-06 12:19pm GMT
3.7.31
Remove Howdy
Remove the "Howdy" text in the top right corner of your dashboard.
remove-howdy
home
1.0
8879
2018-12-09 10:16pm GMT
5.0.7
Replace Howdy With Welcome
This plugin will simply allow you to replace the "Howdy" text in the top right…
replace-howdy-with-welcome
home
1.0
3816
2013-07-16 5:37pm GMT
3.5.2
CJ Change Howdy
A slick WP plugin that lets you change the "Howdy" text.
cj-change-howdy
home
3.3.1
3408
2012-02-18 5:33pm GMT
3.3.2
sk-replace-howdyNo info available  
TM Replace Howdy
Banish the "Howdy" greeting from the WordPress admin area with this simple to use plugin!
tm-replace-howdy
home
1.4.2
10015
2015-11-20 4:01pm GMT
4.4.20
Prior to WordPress 3.3 the only method available was to use the gettext filter. This was a big overhead. From version 3.3 plugins were able to use the admin_bar_menu hook. Plugins which use admin_bar_menu vs gettext
Pluginadmin_bar_menugettextNotes
edit-howdynyDon’t use
change-login-screen-to-your-choiceynContains other code you may not want
remove-howdyynNo replacement string
replace-howdy-with-welcomeynDisplays “Welcome”
cj-change-howdyynDefaults to “Welcome”
sk-replace-howdyynNice admin code
tm-replace-howdyyY – pre WP 3.3Defaults to a random alternative
Having looked at them all, if I were to have chosen any of these plugins it would have been sk-replace-howdy. But, for oik version 2.3, I’ve developed what I believe to be a slightly improved solution. It replaces the string regardless of language. There’s no bloat as I’m already using oik for far more than this function. If you’re not already an oik plugin user then perhaps you should look into some of its other capabilities. PS. oik v2.3 also allows you to use your logo image as the login image. AND that’s another blog post in its own right.

Published: July 30, 2014 | Last updated: February 4, 2015

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