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Copying Hello Dolly

Copying Hello Dolly

- [Narrator] The best way to add functionality that doesn't necessarily belong in a theme is to add a plugin to your WordPress site. And here, we're going to modify the Hello Dolly plugin. Hello Dolly is a simple plugin that comes with every WordPress installation. In fact, it's the first plugin. It's still included with WordPress to serve as an example for new WordPress developers, like you. Once activated, Hello Dolly will show some lyrics from the song by Louis Armstrong in the top right area of the WordPress admin. We are going to modify this to include text from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. To get started, go to your local by flywheel area, right-click on your WordPress install, and click reveal in finder. Then click on the site directory, app, public, WP content, and then plugins. Here, we're going to make a copy of the Hello Dolly directory, and then rename it to Holmes. Then we're going to open it in our favorite code editor. You can see once…

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