Title: Change Menu Name
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Change Menu Name

 *  Resolved [symbaface](https://wordpress.org/support/users/symbaface/)
 * (@symbaface)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-menu-name/)
 * how to change the preset menu names such as “dashboard”?
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 *  [vallivals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vallivals/)
 * (@vallivals)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-menu-name/#post-5667699)
 * you could use translation maybe?
    that way it would stick even though you update
   the plugin. or find the location in the php files and change it directly, but
   that would mean you have to update it every time you update the plugin.
 * >  [Tyler – WPMU DEV Support: on an earlier reply to another topic.]
   > You can change it there; however, you would need to update it after each update,
   > so a better way to do it would be to translate it: [http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-translate-a-wordpress-plugin/](http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-translate-a-wordpress-plugin/)
   > Or this plugin here could make it a bit easier to change: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/codestyling-localization/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/codestyling-localization/)
 *  Plugin Support [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/)
 * (@wpmudev-support1)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-menu-name/#post-5667702)
 * Hi [@symbaface](https://wordpress.org/support/users/symbaface/),
 * I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.
 * As described by [@vallivals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vallivals/) 
   in his previous reply you can change this text by translating the plugin or alternatively
   by adding the following code in the functions.php file of your [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes).
 *     ```
       function custom_gettext_with_context( $translated_text, $text, $domain) {
   
           if ( 'cp' == $domain ) {
               if ( 'Dashboard' == $text ) {
                   $translated_text = 'Custom Dashboard';  // not recipe instructions!
               }
           }
   
           return $translated_text;
       }
       add_filter( 'gettext', 'custom_gettext_with_context', 10 , 3 );
       ```
   
 * Best Regards,
    Vinod Dalvi
 *  [vallivals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vallivals/)
 * (@vallivals)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-menu-name/#post-5667703)
 * =D I really love the fact that WPMU support is cycling these threads at regular
   intervals (2 or 3 times a day it seems) and really trying to help with what they
   can.
 * **All of wpmu dev/support staff, cudos for a great job 😉 **
 *  Plugin Support [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/)
 * (@wpmudev-support1)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-menu-name/#post-5667751)
 * Hi [@vallivals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vallivals/),
 * Thank you for your kind words.
 * You are most welcome, if we can be of any further assistance please don’t hesitate
   to ask 🙂
 * Have a fantastic day!
 * Cheers,
    Vinod Dalvi

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-menu-name/#post-5667751)
 * Status: resolved