How to Change or Remove ‘Howdy’ in WordPress the Easy Way

How to Change or Remove ‘Howdy’ in WordPress the Easy Way

Last Updated on November 11, 2023 by Mike Kipruto

Today I want to share a quick and easy tutorial on changing or removing the ‘Howdy‘ in WordPress using custom code.

To achieve this, we will use the following code that adds a filter to modify the “Howdy” using the WordPress “gettext” filter hook.

PHP
function mk_change_howdy_text($translated_text, $text, $domain) {
    $new_howdy = str_replace('Howdy', 'Welcome', $text);
    return $new_howdy;
}
add_filter('gettext', 'mk_change_howdy_text', 10, 3);

This code replaces “Howdy” with “Welcome” using PHP’s str_replace function and applies it via the WordPress “gettext” filter hook as shown:

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