Title: Change "Read More" button text
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Change "Read More" button text

 *  Resolved [Septuater](https://wordpress.org/support/users/septuater/)
 * (@septuater)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-read-more-button-text/)
 * Hi,
 * In the “Featured pages” on the Main Page, you get some short summary of each 
   given page, and a colorful, big **buttons** with a “Read More” on them. What 
   I want to do, is to change this text, as I’m running my website in Polish. Do
   you know how to do this? Which file should I change?
 * Please help,
 * Thank you,
 * Kamil.

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 *  Thread Starter [Septuater](https://wordpress.org/support/users/septuater/)
 * (@septuater)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-read-more-button-text/#post-5778752)
 * Solved. I needed to add a new translation file in “wp-content\themes\edin\languages”.
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-read-more-button-text/#post-5778890)
 * Glad you got it working!
 * If you want to make sure your language file doesn’t get overwritten when you 
   next update the theme, you could also look at installing the language files in
   a child theme instead. I’ve provided instructions on how to do that in the second
   half of this post:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-resize-widget-area?replies=15#post-5675659](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-resize-widget-area?replies=15#post-5675659)
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-read-more-button-text/#post-5778891)
 * I also wanted to point out where you can download or add to the existing Polish
   language file for Goran and its parent Edin:
 * [https://translate.wordpress.com/projects/wpcom/themes/goran/pl/default](https://translate.wordpress.com/projects/wpcom/themes/goran/pl/default)
   
   [https://translate.wordpress.com/projects/wpcom/themes/edin/pl/default](https://translate.wordpress.com/projects/wpcom/themes/edin/pl/default)
 *  [reima000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reima000/)
 * (@reima000)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-read-more-button-text/#post-5778935)
 * Goran is a child theme of Edin, and you can not do a child theme for a child 
   theme. 🙁
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-read-more-button-text/#post-5778938)
 * That’s true, reima000, good point. You could try the grandchild theme route instead:
 * [http://docs.appthemes.com/tutorials/creating-grandchild-themes/](http://docs.appthemes.com/tutorials/creating-grandchild-themes/)
 * It’s not officially supported but it’s a workaround.
 *  [pablo.buenaonda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pablobuenaonda/)
 * (@pablobuenaonda)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-read-more-button-text/#post-5779008)
 * Can you please explain in details how to change this “read more” text to Polish,
   ie. what to put in the po/mo files? Thanks !
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-read-more-button-text/#post-5779009)
 * pablo.buenaonda – full instructions for installing a theme in a non-English language
   are here:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-resize-widget-area?replies=15#post-5675659](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-resize-widget-area?replies=15#post-5675659)
 * The naming format for Polish language files is
 * po_PL.po / po_PL.mo

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