Change the ‘Howdy’ in WordPress Admin bar

When you log into your WordPress dashboard, you are greeted with a simple ‘ Howdy, Username’ message in the top right hand corner of your admin bar.While it’s fun and friendly, you may not be a fan of the word Howdy, or may want something more corporate for a client. So how do you go about changing it? It’s actually quite easy as long as your willing to copy and paste a bit of code.

Open your functions.php  ( it might also be called Theme Functions depending on your theme)  file in the Editor (from the dashboard simply navigate  to Appearance > Editor) then copy and paste the following into the file:

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add_filter( 'body_class', 'twentyeleven_body_classes' );
add_filter('gettext', 'change_howdy', 10, 3);
function change_howdy($translated, $text, $domain) {
if (!is_admin() || 'default' != $domain)
return $translated;
if (false !== strpos($translated, 'Howdy'))
return str_replace('Howdy', 'Welcome', $translated);
return $translated;
}

add_filter( 'body_class', 'twentyeleven_body_classes' );
add_filter('gettext', 'change_howdy', 10, 3);
function change_howdy($translated, $text, $domain) {
if (!is_admin() || 'default' != $domain)
return $translated;
if (false !== strpos($translated, 'Howdy'))
return str_replace('Howdy', 'Welcome', $translated);
return $translated;
}

If  ’Welcome’  isn’t  your cup of tea either, you can replace it with any word or phrase you like, just make sure you have single quotes around it.

Here is the before look:

And the very subtle change I made to the wpteach admin bar:

Go ahead and have some fun with this, cause you deserve to be greeted the way you want to be!

Category: Tutorials, Use