Replace "Howdy" in the Adminbar

[discobot]

Either change it to something more neutral
OR
make it an option that admins can decide on
OR
remove it altogether

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Read-only archive: https://petitions.classicpress.net/posts/33/replace-howdy-in-the-adminbar

Author: Pieter Bos

Vote count: 22

Status: completed

See https://github.com/ClassicPress/ClassicPress/pull/51

~ posted by Wade Striebel

Tags:

• difficulty-easy
• request-modify-feature

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Comments

Can you explain a bit more about the problem with “Howdy”?

I’m fine with replacing this with “Hello”.

~ posted by James Nylen

@Pieter Bos: Depends on translations, in german it is a very neutral ‘Willkommen’ == ‘Welcome’

~ posted by Dora D.

@James - (top result the Google) “Howdy”: an informal friendly greeting, particularly associated with the western US states. Indeed “Hello” would be much more politically correct and most language packs (except German it seems) actually use their translations of “Hello”.

@Dora D. - I think it is the other way around actually, “Wilkommen” is the very free translation of “Howdy”, so it would actually be quite easy (easier) to replace “Howdy” with “Hello” as @James above suggests than to adjust translations.

~ posted by Pieter Bos

Yes I hate this. Please remove Howdy.

~ posted by Avrom

I always remove this altogether, but I would also be fine with changing it to “Hello” (though it does make me think of Terry-Thomas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry-Thomas and Leslie Phillips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Phillips).

~ posted by KTS915

It’s completely unnecessary and just clutter. Removing it wouldn’t hurt and would give more room for other plugin information in the admin bar.

~ posted by David Edgar

Remove.

~ posted by Neal Umphred

Ok, this seems pretty straightforward to me. If anyone wants to submit a pull request for this one, please do it

~ posted by James Nylen

Howdy has been removed from the admin bar in https://github.com/ClassicPress/ClassicPress/pull/51 - thank you for the great start Luiz (@luizbills) - and has been changed to Hello in other instances (for example emails) in https://github.com/ClassicPress/ClassicPress/issues/54

This feature request can be archived or perhaps it is possible to make a separate list of features that have successfully been implemented?

~ posted by Pieter Bos

You probably saw this already, Pieter, but for anyone else reading: this feature request has been marked as Completed and it now appears in the list at https://petitions.classicpress.net/?view=completed .

~ posted by James Nylen