Title: Home Sweet Home
Author: markciotola
Published: <strong>June 8, 2024</strong>
Last modified: June 8, 2024

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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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# Home Sweet Home

 By [markciotola](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markciotola/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/home-sweet-home.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/home-sweet-home/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/home-sweet-home/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/home-sweet-home/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/home-sweet-home/)

## Description

Home Sweet Home is a free WordPress plugin that creates a panel on the dashboard
and a link to the site homepage. The default behavior for WordPress is to take registered
users to the Dashboard. Although WordPress Dashboard page provides a menu item to
go to the site homepage, unfortunately, new users sometimes don’t know about that
item. Home Sweet Home a panel on the Dashboard that provides a link to the site 
home page. This can be useful for new users who are unfamiliar with the dashboard.

## FAQ

### Does the site administrator need to enter the URL?

No. The plugin looks to the site for the URL of the home page

### Will this plugin work with different sites

Yes, because the plugin takes the URL from each site. However, this plugin will 
not refer the user to an external homepage.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Home Sweet Home” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ markciotola ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markciotola/)

[Translate “Home Sweet Home” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/home-sweet-home)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.0.1

 * First release submitted for approval

#### 1.1

 * Escaped echo’ed text (site URL).
 * Changed function name prefix from “hsh” to longer prefixes to avoid conflicts.
 * Now plugin page link
 * Second release submitted for approval.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.5.8**
 * Tags
 * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/)[home page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/home-page/)
   [navigation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/navigation/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/home-sweet-home/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ markciotola ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markciotola/)

## Support

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