Update Hello Dolly

[janeforshort]

Reduce font size, position just to the left of screen options tab.

[jacobsantos]

No patch, looks like an enhancement.

[jacobsantos]

Color sucks too -> Change it from red to something that doesn't look bad. Like Green.

[ryan]

We have to do something with it in 2.7 cause right now it sucks. I'd prefer to remove it, but some people want to keep the useless thing.

[technosailor]

Some people... like your boss? :)

I want it removed too. The purpose is to demonstrate how to make a WP plugin and while it provides a functional example of a WP plugin, a more involved plugin would be useful. One that adds, for example, a management page, uses a hook or two (including one that takes more than two arguments, for instance) and one that is built in an object oriented way to demonstrate preferred coding techniques for a WP plugin.

I'm just saying that Hello Dolly, while a little useful from a demonstration perspective, really could use more demonstration functionality. Rewrite Hello Dolly in a more complex way, and it would still be functionally useless but demonstrably more useful. :)

[DD32]

My understanding was that Hello Dolly is supposed to be used as an example plugin, But like technosailor says, Its an utter aweful example of a plugin, Global values, running code in non-function/hook aspect, etc. It really would be good to replace it with something else which DOES demonstrate a lot more functionality..

[zedlander]

Screenshot

[zedlander]

How does this look?
hello.patch and hello.png attached.

[jacobsantos]

Better standards for example plugin, includes style patch.

[jacobsantos]

Looks hot.

[ryan]

(In [9684]) Hello Dolly update. Props zedlander and jacobsantos. fixes #8188