Pat Hawks

dirtysuds

Yesterday, a client told me that he was sick of starring at “Howdy” in the WordPress admin interface. 
He told me it made him want to punch his computer in the face. 
He asked me if I could replace it with something like “Hello, Your Majesty”
After I stopped laughing and picked myself up off the floor, I coded this plugin that will change Howdy to a different, random greeting.

Kill Howdy

Changes the text Howdy in the admin interface to a different greeting.

Eric Mann

Steve Grunwell

Beginning in Office 97, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant" rel="nofollow ugc">Microsoft included an Office Assistant named “Clippit”</a> (though his friends call him “Clippy”), a terribly annoying animated paper clip that supposedly helped you write, but more often than not became a shiny thing for people to get distracted by. Clippy gained friends throughout the years, including Merlin (a wizard), Rover (a dog), and Links (a cat). Clippy was retired in Office 2007, but the legacy of Clippy and Friends lives on to this day.
After Clippy had been around long enough to be considered ironically funny (no judgement here, this is a whole plugin around the same joke), <a href="https://www.smore.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Smore</a>, an online flyer design tool, introduced <a href="https://www.smore.com/clippy-js" rel="nofollow ugc">Clippy.js</a>, a JavaScript-powered implementation of Clippy and friends for the modern web. Clippy.js serves as the backbone of this plugin.
Note: In case you haven’t realized it yet, this plugin won’t do anything useful for you, but will add an animated character to your WordPress post edit screen. You can drag the character around, click on it, and watch it interact with your mouse, but this is strictly a novelty plugin.

Son of Clippy

i cannot believe i haven't come across this before.
How did i survive without it ?
And it's translatable / multi-language too if you need it....
It deserves at least 10 stars, but unfortunately I can only give 5 here ...:(
I can hardly contain myself waiting for the next update...



pure genius

Add "fun" animated characters to your WordPress edit screens!

Kill Howdy vs Son of Clippy