Title: Localization Help
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Localization Help

 *  [neiloughton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neiloughton/)
 * (@neiloughton)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help/)
 * I am trying to edit some of the terminology used within WordPress to better suit
   my application needs.
 * Specifically Categories and Tags.
 * For example, I am using WordPress in this instance for Education purposes therefore
   i would like to change Category / Categories to Expected Outcomes and Tags to
   Subjects.
 * I am currently attempting this using a .po editor and Localization. The issue
   is it only seems to give me options to change the descriptive text and not the
   actual menu / widget text.
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * Neil

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help/#post-5691805)
 * Localization was a clever idea, but as you discovered, has its limits. Good effort
   though 🙂
 * I suggest you simply create custom taxonomies that use the labels you desire.
   This gives you full control everywhere. You can suppress the default categories
   and tags in the post edit screen using the screen options, or formally unregister
   them from posts with `unregister_taxonomy_for_object_type()`. Then they do not
   appear in menus or anywhere in the backend.
 * On the frontend you’ll need to tweak the templates to use your taxonomies instead
   of the defaults. Most category and tag template tags have a generic term equivalent.
   You’ll want to create a child theme to contain all the altered templates.
 *  Thread Starter [neiloughton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neiloughton/)
 * (@neiloughton)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help/#post-5691956)
 * Thanks for the response, it was slightly frustrating as i had put a decent amount
   of time into the Localization idea for it not to be suitable! Oh well.
 * I will take a look at the custom taxonomy solution that you suggest.
 * Thanks.

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## Tags

 * [.mo](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mo/)
 * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/)
 * [Localization](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/localization/)
 * [po](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/po/)
 * [tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tag/)

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 * Last reply from: [neiloughton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neiloughton/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help/#post-5691956)
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