In the WordPress backend, on the admin bar, there has always been the “Howdy” text that greets you and leads to your account info. It can be customized.
PHP
Place the following code anywhere in your theme’s functions.php document.
// change the "howdy" text in the admin bar
function custom_howdy( $wp_admin_bar ) {
$user_id = get_current_user_id();
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$profile_url = get_edit_profile_url( $user_id );
if ( 0 != $user_id ) {
/* add the "My Account" menu */
$avatar = get_avatar( $user_id, 28 );
$howdy = sprintf( __('Hello, %1$s'), $current_user->display_name );
$class = empty( $avatar ) ? '' : 'with-avatar';
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu(
array(
'id' => 'my-account',
'parent' => 'top-secondary',
'title' => $howdy . $avatar,
'href' => $profile_url,
'meta' => array(
'class' => $class,
),
)
);
}
}
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'custom_howdy', 11 );
The above changes the “Howdy” to “Hello” which feels more professional. But you can change the following line “Hello” (line 10 above) to be anything you want.
$howdy = sprintf( __('Hello, %1$s'), $current_user->display_name );
We’d like to acknowledge that we learned a great deal of our coding from W3Schools and TutorialsPoint, borrowing heavily from their teaching process and excellent code examples. We highly recommend both sites to deepen your experience, and further your coding journey. We’re just hitting the basics here at 1SMARTchicken.
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- All modifications to a theme or plugin should be made by creating a child theme and placing the changes there; changes made to the parent theme will be overwritten the next time it updates
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