Title: Unneeded
Last modified: April 7, 2020

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# Unneeded

 *  Anonymous User 254267
 * (@anonymized-254267)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unneeded/)
 * Unneeded and default installed plugin.

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 *  [celloblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/celloblue/)
 * (@celloblue)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unneeded/#post-13102562)
 * Is that why you rated it five stars?
 *  [techboyg5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techboyg5/)
 * (@techboyg5)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unneeded/#post-13226698)
 * It’s a very small plugin.
 * It was included in WordPress for as long as it supported plugins, and is used
   as a simple demonstration of how a WordPress plugin can add functionality to 
   the WordPress code.
 * <?php
    /** * [@package](https://wordpress.org/support/users/package/) Hello_Dolly*
   [@version](https://wordpress.org/support/users/version/) 1.7.2 */ /* Plugin Name:
   Hello Dolly Plugin URI: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/hello-dolly/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/hello-dolly/)
   Description: This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm
   of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong:
   Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from <cite>Hello, 
   Dolly</cite> in the upper right of your admin screen on every page. Author: Matt
   Mullenweg Version: 1.7.2 Author URI: [http://ma.tt/](http://ma.tt/) */
 * function hello_dolly_get_lyric() {
    /** These are the lyrics to Hello Dolly */
   $lyrics = “Hello, Dolly Well, hello, Dolly It’s so nice to have you back where
   you belong You’re lookin’ swell, Dolly I can tell, Dolly You’re still glowin’,
   you’re still crowin’ You’re still goin’ strong I feel the room swayin’ While 
   the band’s playin’ One of our old favorite songs from way back when So, take 
   her wrap, fellas Dolly, never go away again Hello, Dolly Well, hello, Dolly It’s
   so nice to have you back where you belong You’re lookin’ swell, Dolly I can tell,
   Dolly You’re still glowin’, you’re still crowin’ You’re still goin’ strong I 
   feel the room swayin’ While the band’s playin’ One of our old favorite songs 
   from way back when So, golly, gee, fellas Have a little faith in me, fellas Dolly,
   never go away Promise, you’ll never go away Dolly’ll never go away again”;
 *  // Here we split it into lines.
    $lyrics = explode( “\n”, $lyrics );
 *  // And then randomly choose a line.
    return wptexturize( $lyrics[ mt_rand( 0,
   count( $lyrics ) – 1 ) ] ); }
 * // This just echoes the chosen line, we’ll position it later.
    function hello_dolly(){
   $chosen = hello_dolly_get_lyric(); $lang = ”; if ( ‘en_’ !== substr( get_user_locale(),
   0, 3 ) ) { $lang = ‘ lang=”en”‘; }
 *  printf(
    ‘<p id=”dolly”><span class=”screen-reader-text”>%s </span><span dir
   =”ltr”%s>%s</span></p>’, __( ‘Quote from Hello Dolly song, by Jerry Herman:’,‘
   hello-dolly’ ), $lang, $chosen ); }
 * // Now we set that function up to execute when the admin_notices action is called.
   
   add_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘hello_dolly’ );
 * // We need some CSS to position the paragraph.
    function dolly_css() { echo ”
   <style type=’text/css’> #dolly { float: right; padding: 5px 10px; margin: 0; 
   font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6666; } .rtl #dolly { float: left; } .block-editor-
   page #dolly { display: none; } [@media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media/)
   screen and (max-width: 782px) { #dolly, .rtl #dolly { float: none; padding-left:
   0; padding-right: 0; } } </style> “; }
 * add_action( ‘admin_head’, ‘dolly_css’ );
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by [techboyg5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techboyg5/).
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by [techboyg5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techboyg5/).

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/hello-dolly/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=2052855)
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 * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unneeded/#post-13226698)