Title: Change the error message text
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Change the error message text

 *  Resolved [ddl449](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddl449/)
 * (@ddl449)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-the-error-message-text/)
 * I simply want to change “ERROR: Enter a username or e-mail address.” to something
   else. Where should I look?
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Farthing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfarthing84/)
 * (@jfarthing84)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-the-error-message-text/#post-3158282)
 * I believe that is actually a string from WordPress itself. See [Translating WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress).

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