Replace WordPress admin bar welcome text, “Howdy”

In some cases you may want a slightly more personal welcome message within the WordPress Admin bar. Here is a code snippet you can use to change the default “Howdy” WordPress admin bar welcome text.

 

Replace Howdy Greeting in WordPress

Simply add this code snippet to the “functions.php” file within your WordPress child theme.

Conclusion

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Editors Note:

• This article was first published on January 13th, 2017 and was revised on August 21st, 2024 to update the function to replace the WordPress Admin Backend Howdy greeting message.
• This article was revised on July 10th, 2025 to update and simplify the code.