Hello Christmas

Christmas lovers can now enjoy the holiday spirit in their WordPress dashboards! Rejoice and be glad!

So for most of the year we can enjoy snippets of a classic jazz tune displayed in our dashboard. But when the holiday season rolls around and you are feeling the Christmas spirit, this little plugin presents a nice alternative.

When activated this plugin checks to make sure Hello Dolly is NOT activated and if that is the case, displays random lyrics from popular Christmas songs in the upper right hand corner of the admin screen.

For further convenience, just in case you forget to deactivate this after the holidays, the plugin will only operate if Christmas is less than 40 days away.

Using this plugin is very simple. All you have to do is:

1. Upload the hello-christmas folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

2. Make sure that ‘Hello Dolly’ is NOT active

3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

4. Look in the upper right corner of your screen and rejoice!

What is this plugin for?

Getting in the holiday spirit. That’s pretty much it.

What can we expect in future releases?

Well if you keep yourself off the naughty list then I might consider:

• Maybe a template tag for throwing this in your theme?
• A shortcode for tossing this in your posts?
• A simple widget