Title: Hello Christmas
Author: Kyle Maurer
Published: <strong>December 3, 2013</strong>
Last modified: November 28, 2014

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
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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# Hello Christmas

 By [Kyle Maurer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brashrebel/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hello-christmas.1.2.zip)

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

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hello-christmas/)

## Description

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.

## Installation

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!

## FAQ

  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

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Most valuable plugin in my arsenal](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/most-valuable-plugin-in-my-arsenal/)󠁿

 [Topher](https://profiles.wordpress.org/topher1kenobe/) September 3, 2016 1 reply

Hello Christmas reminds me to find the joy in life. That there’s more to life than
plugins and WordPress and work. That there’s probably a party starting soon, and
I should enjoy it. Get this plugin, it’ll change your life.

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## Contributors & Developers

“Hello Christmas” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Kyle Maurer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brashrebel/)

[Translate “Hello Christmas” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hello-christmas)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.2

 * Added more song lyrics
 * Added cute little snow flakes to the lyrics output
 * Basic code cleanup

#### 1.1

 * Added extra condition so plugin only works if Christmas is coming soon
 * Added more song lyrics

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.0.38**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hello-christmas/)
 * Tags
 * [christmas](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/christmas/)[holiday](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/holiday/)
   [winter](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/winter/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/hello-christmas/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Kyle Maurer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brashrebel/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hello-christmas/)