Change text of plugin

  • Chris Huff

    (@brochris)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Usually when I want to edit a plugin, I just edit the plugin. But this means that I need to edit it every time the plugin is updated. I like receiving plugin updates, because they often bring bug fixes or new functionality, but I don’t want to have to make the same edits to the same plugins over and over again. Is there a better way?

    For example, in the Social Connect plugin, I want to change the words “Connect with” to “Login with”

    Is the best way just to edit the plugin files, like I’ve done in the past, or something else?

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  • ishan001

    (@ishan001)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Currently, there’s no way to do this. The best you can do is to request the plugin author to make the text configurable.

    Stagger Lee

    (@stagger-lee)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Try to play with these:

    function replace_text_wps($text){
	$replace = array(
	// 'WORD TO REPLACE' => 'REPLACE WORD WITH THIS'
	'Frei' => '<a href="http://mysite.com/myafflink">Frei</a>',
	'studiopress' => '<a href="http://mysite.com/myafflink">studiopress</a>'
	);
	$text = str_replace(array_keys($replace), $replace, $text);
	return $text;
}

add_filter('the_content', 'replace_text_wps');
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'replace_text_wps');
add_filter('tablepress_table_output', 'replace_text_wps');
    function replace_text($text) {
     $text = str_replace('look-for-this-string', 'replace-with-this-string', $text);
     $text = str_replace('look-for-that-string', 'replace-with-that-string', $text);
     return $text;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'replace_text');
    function replace_text_wps($text){
$replace = array(
// 'WORD TO REPLACE' => 'REPLACE WORD WITH THIS'
'wordpress' => '<a href="#">wordpress</a>',
'excerpt' => '<a href="#">excerpt</a>',
'function' => '<a href="#">function</a>'
);
$text = str_replace(array_keys($replace), $replace, $text);
return $text;
}

add_filter('the_content', 'replace_text_wps');
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'replace_text_wps');
    function replace_content($content)
{
$content = str_replace('Company Name', '<span class="company">Company Name</span>',$content);
return $content;
}
add_filter('the_content','replace_content');
    function replace_content($content)
{
$content = str_replace('##Replace Me##', '##With Something Else##',$content);
return $content;
}
add_filter('the_content','replace_content');
    add_filter(  'gettext',  'wps_translate_words_array'  );
add_filter(  'ngettext',  'wps_translate_words_array'  );
function wps_translate_words_array( $translated ) {
     $words = array(
                        // 'word to translate' = > 'translation'
                        'Posts' => 'Article',
                        'Post' => 'Articles',
                        'Pages' => 'Stuffing',
                        'Media' => 'Upload Images',
                        'Links' => 'Blog Roll',
                    );
     $translated = str_ireplace(  array_keys($words),  $words,  $translated );
     return $translated;
}
    add_filter('gettext', 'change_post_to_article');
add_filter('ngettext', 'change_post_to_article');
function change_post_to_article($translated) {
$translated = str_ireplace('Post', 'Article', $translated);
return $translated;
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