Title: Change Button Text/Image
Last modified: November 26, 2016

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# Change Button Text/Image

 *  [michaelgraci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelgraci/)
 * (@michaelgraci)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-button-textimage/)
 * Hi–Wonder if you can help. I went reading thru some past articles–I am trying
   to change the text. I have a child theme. I just added the code below (pulled
   from a previous topic) at the bottom of “custom.css”..i was expecting the button
   to change…no change. Am i putting the code in the right spot–do I have too embed
   it in the file differently.
 * Appreciate the help. This is my first attempt at adding code within WordPress!
 * Appreciate any help/advice.
 * Thanks
 * span.thumbs-rating-up::before{
    font-family: FontAwesome !important; content:‘\
   f164’ !important; }
 * span.thumbs-rating-down::before{
    font-family: FontAwesome !important; content:“\
   f165” !important; }

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 *  Plugin Author [Ricard Torres](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quicoto/)
 * (@quicoto)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-button-textimage/#post-8485313)
 * Hello,
 * Yes, this CSS should overwrite the plugin’s styles.
 * Without seeing it, I can’t really tell what’s going on.
 * Is the site live?
 *  Thread Starter [michaelgraci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelgraci/)
 * (@michaelgraci)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-button-textimage/#post-8486468)
 * Hi Richard
 * Thank you for such quick response. Really appreciate your work.
 * I am using Buddy Boss Theme —with a child theme..–I just sent a ticket to them.
 * I did another test example—from below (eliminate “Vote Down”)…when I enter this
   code snippet through the dashboard/theme via APPEARANCE it works…it eliminates
   that button on every instance where I want to display it…when I put it to custom.
   css–nothing changes. Hummm
 * CODE SNIPPET
    .thumbs-rating-container .thumbs-rating-down{ display: none; }
 * For now I wanted to make sure I understands how to execute the changes. I think
   its a question for Buddy Boss. Let me dig a little more..I am learning as I go
   as well…Lets see.
 * Will keep you posted.
 * Site is not live but locked down.
 * Mike
 *  Thread Starter [michaelgraci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelgraci/)
 * (@michaelgraci)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-button-textimage/#post-8496166)
 * Hi Again..Some of my problem was getting fooled by cacheing—I would make the 
   change, expect it to show up etc –and it fooled me–so I have that under control
   and am getting some success.
 * I went thru past posts and trying some options–I am able to eliminate the down
   button, I can also change the font size…all good–I used the inputs from the forum.
 * When I added changes below–I did not get any change in the text–any ideas?
 * .thumbs-rating-container .thumbs-rating-up span:before{
 *  content: ‘Thumbs Up!’ !important;
    }
 * ALSO is this code (below) designed to change the red and green buttons to an 
   Icon or different image? I have not be able to get that to work.
 * span.thumbs-rating-up::before{
    font-family: FontAwesome !important; content:‘\
   f164’ !important; }
 * span.thumbs-rating-down::before{
    font-family: FontAwesome !important; content:“\
   f165” !important; }
 * Appreciate any hints.
 * Mike
 *  Plugin Author [Ricard Torres](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quicoto/)
 * (@quicoto)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-button-textimage/#post-8496485)
 * Hey Mike,
 * The code seems ok, although it seems it doesn’t work.
 * I can’t see anything wrong with it, but with CSS it could be the stupidest thing.
 * I wonder if perhaps you should try another rating plugin with more customisable
   output. One that would allow these kind of modifications from the WordPress Dashboard.

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 * Last reply from: [Ricard Torres](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quicoto/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-button-textimage/#post-8496485)
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