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Hello Dolly

Hello Dolly

Site Management Admin Dashboard Customization

Hello Dolly is a WordPress plugin for Admin Dashboard Customization. It ranks #1 of 141 in that group by active installs and was last updated 1 year ago.

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Slug hello-dolly

500K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.4 Rating out of 5 From 177 ratings
4 Releases Since 6 July 2008
Oct 2025 Last release 1 year ago

Maintenance check

Is Hello Dolly still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

  • No release for a while. The last one was 1 year ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.4 out of 5 from 177 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 99.7% of the directory

Ahead of 47,606 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

99.7% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
47,606 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
127 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
1.7.2
Requires WordPress
4.6
Tested up to
6.9.11
Added to the directory
6 July 2008
Last updated
24 October 2025
Contributors
2
Author
Matt Mullenweg

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