Great example of simple plugin

  • Hello Dolly isn’t included with the WordPress by default because the team thinks everyone wants Hello Dolly lyrics in their admin interface! Instead, it serves as an elegant example of what a simple plugin looks like for those of us who might want to try customising WordPress ourselves.

    No surprise then that my first ever plugin (created many years ago) was a modification of Hello Dolly. It’s a perfect in-road to working with WordPress: it’s simple, delightful, and does something we can all have a go at – adding something random but unobtrusive to the WordPress interface, making it our own. (My first try was “A Record or an OBE”, which substituted the lyrics of the first theme song from The Goodies television program.)

    Thanks for helping this beginner – and no doubt many more – learn to write for WordPress, Matt. I can’t believe I didn’t review this until now.

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  • That’s your story, man -great one btw, good for you- but I personally have to uninstall it every time, like, no doubt, many more.

    “it serves as an elegant example of what a simple plugin looks like for those of us who might want to try customising WordPress ourselves.”

    Then why don’t they just put it in the repository as a “Hello Dolly Plugin Development Example”. Why force install it on every website? My guess is the percentage of those wanting to customize a plugin and using it as their example is extremely small compared to those who just delete it.

    I personally have installed it from 100+ installations because it serves no purpose for casual or small business users who just need a website.

    I would be extremely curious to know how much bandwidth and time has been spent downloading this plugin as part of a new WordPress install and then deleting it from that same WordPress install.

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