Title: Hardcoded string in recent-posts.php prevents translation
Last modified: June 24, 2026

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# Hardcoded string in recent-posts.php prevents translation

 *  [lenasterg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenasterg/)
 * (@lenasterg)
 * [1 week, 4 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hardcoded-string-in-recent-posts-php-prevents-translation/)
 * Hi and thanks for all the great themes.
   I noticed that the following line of 
   code in the Recent posts widget contains a hardcoded string, which makes it impossible
   to translate via localization files:`inc/widgets/recent-posts.php:19:`
 * `$graceful_title = apply_filters( 'widget_title', empty( $instance['title'] )?'
   Recent Posts' : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base );`
 * Could you please update it in the next release? 
   Thanks in advance.Lena

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 *  Thread Starter [lenasterg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenasterg/)
 * (@lenasterg)
 * [1 week, 4 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hardcoded-string-in-recent-posts-php-prevents-translation/#post-18946735)
 * Similar issue for:
 * inc/customizer/customizer-default.php:100: ‘post_page_related_title’ => ‘Related
   Posts’,
   inc/customizer/customizer-default.php:110: ‘single_post_page_related_title’
   => ‘Related Posts’,

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