How to changing the display name “Featured Post”?

I have a sticky post plugin …

I recommend asking at https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/sticky-posts-switch/ so the plugin’s developers and support community can help you with this.

That is precisely what I did do and why I am posting here.
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/customize-name-of-featured-post/
`Support ? Plugin: Sticky Posts – Switch ? Customize Name of Featured Post?
Muirén Ní Sídach (@rhomani)
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Instead of an entire page, I want the sticky-post to be the about. How can I change the words “Feature Post” to “About”?
The page I need help with: https://siofrai.com

Sticky Post Switch Plugin Author: Markus Wiesenhofer (@markusfroehlich)
6 days, 10 hours ago
Hello rhomani,
the naming comes from WordPress itself, unfortunately, I have no influence.
Best regards
Markus

It actually comes from your theme, not WP core. The label is easily hidden with CSS, but to change it gets more complicated. If your theme runs such labels through the translation functions, the “gettext” filter can be used to alter labels going through translation. Even for English language sites, labels can still go through translation functions. But themes would have to explicitly use the system for this to work.

If generic solutions like that don’t work for you, I’d have to refer you to the theme’s dedicated support forum:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/simplyblack/
Sorry for the run around, but the theme’s devs and expert users at their own forum are in the best position to help you.

Thanks. The Theme’s author told me to contact the plugin author, the plugin author told me it comes from WordPress. So I’ll copy this exchange for clarification and circle back around to the theme builder for a fix.

I checked your theme, SimplyBlack. It does use the _e() translate function, so this should work for you:

add_filter('gettext', function( $translation, $text, $domain ) {
  if ( $text == 'Featured post') $translation = 'About X, Y, Z';
  return $translation;
}, 10, 3 );

To protect this code from theme updates, it’d be best if it were placed in a simple, custom plugin you could create.

I sort of know the theme’s author, @guido07111975, they’ll get a notification of this reply. The label comes from theme file content-list.php, line 9:
<?php _e( 'Featured post', 'simplyblack' ); ?>

Hi ya Guido! ??

The Theme’s author told me to contact the plugin author

I did not. You did open a topic (link) but closed it again with status “resolved”.

The snippet from bcworkz works like a charm, please add this in file function of your (child) theme or via the Code Snippets plugin.

Thanks @bcworkz !

Guido

Sorry, my misunderstanding @guido07111975

That code snippet works perfectly but I am not sure how to correctly add the original formatting.

{margin:0 0 20px; padding:2px 0; border-top:1px solid #ccc; border-bottom:1px solid #ccc; text-align:left; text-transform: capitalize; font-weight: 700; font-size: 28px; color:#5C6A78;}

Into

add_filter('gettext', function( $translation, $text, $domain ) {
  if ( $text == 'Featured post') $translation = 'About . . .';
  return $translation;
}, 10, 3 );

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Muirén NíSídach.

You can add that as custom CSS:

.sticky-title {your CSS here}

Guido

It worded. Thank you.
Weird, when I tried that earlier with the snippet of code, it changed the name like I wanted, but lost the custom CSS formatting. Now it looks perfect. Sorry to be so much trouble, and again, thanks @guido07111975 and @bcworkz

You’re welcome!

Guido