Title: Greetings byGosh
Author: Kenny Moore
Published: <strong>October 7, 2019</strong>
Last modified: February 6, 2021

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Greetings byGosh

 By [Kenny Moore](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bygosh/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/greetings-bygosh.1.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/greetings-bygosh/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/greetings-bygosh/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/greetings-bygosh/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/greetings-bygosh/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/greetings-bygosh/)

## Description

Greetings byGosh is a simple, free plugin that supplements the standard greeting“
Howdy” in the WordPress admin dashboard. It displays a random greeting from around
the world – the equivalent of “Hello” in 16 different languages. “Howdy” is also
included in the rotation because I am fond of it, it just gets a little monotonous
on its own.

Greetings byGosh has only been tested with the English language version of WordPress.

This update: (1) Tested with WordPress 5.6.1; (2) Added two new greetings in honor
of Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President of the United States: ‘Wah Gwaan’(
Jamaican), and ‘Vanakkam’ (Tamil).

If you enjoy Greetings byGosh, please leave a review. If this plugin gives you any
grief, please post on the support page. I’ll do my best to fix any problems.

The greetings …
 American slang: Howdy Arabic: Marhabaan Bengali: Hyālō English:
Hello French: Bonjour Hausa: Sannu Hawaiian: Aloha Hindi: Namaste Jamaican: Wah 
Gwaan Japanese: Kon’nichiwa Malaysian: Helo Mandarin Chinese: Nǐ hǎo Portuguese:
Olá Punjabi: Sata srī akāla Russian: Privet Spanish: Hola Tamil: Vanakkam

Greetings byGosh was developed and is maintained by Kenny Moore. It is inspired 
by TM Replace Howdy, which I enjoyed but is no longer maintained.

### License

Greetings byGosh is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation,
either version 2 of the License, or any later version.

Greetings byGosh is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details: https://
www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Wordpress admin dashboard, showing “Howdy, Kenny” changed to “Kon’nichiwa, Kenny”.

## Installation

Install and activate Greetings byGosh through the Plugins screen in the WordPress
admin dashboard

## FAQ

 1. That’s it? That’s all it does?

Yes. In a planned future version the list of greetings will be editable – you will
be able to add to it, subtract from it, or change it out completely. For example
you might prefer funny or inspirational sayings instead of greetings.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Greetings byGosh” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Kenny Moore ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bygosh/)

[Translate “Greetings byGosh” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/greetings-bygosh)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/greetings-bygosh/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/greetings-bygosh/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/greetings-bygosh/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/greetings-bygosh/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

Original version

#### 1.0.1

Tested with WordPress 5.6.1; Added greetings in Jamaican and Tamil

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **5 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.6.17**
 * Tags
 * [admin dashboard](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin-dashboard/)[greetings](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/greetings/)
   [howdy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/howdy/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/greetings-bygosh/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Kenny Moore ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bygosh/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/greetings-bygosh/)

## Donate

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