How To Change Phrases?

Hi @bward,

you can edit any plugin default text string, using translation files: https://userswp.io/docs/translate/

This is a WP standard.

Thanks,

Hey Paolo, maybe I did not explain that very well. I am curious how to change the text of certain phrases in your plugin.

After a user signs up, the screen says,

Your account is under moderation. We will email you once it’s approved.

How can I modify that, not in another language, literally, that phrase?

Thanks

Hi again,

I perfectly understood your requirement and that’s how you do it.

They are called language files, but they are used as well to edit the default language.

If you are using the en_US file, simply add the desired phrase in the translation box of the string which you want to edit and save. Next upload the mo file generated when saving to the folder /wp-content/languages/plugins/

The final path should look like this: /wp-content/languages/plugins/userswp-en_US.mo

It is possible that you’ll need to create the languages and plugins folder in wp-content.

Let me know how it goes.

Thanks,

I sincerely appreciate the reply, but that is very involved just to replace a word in a single phrase.

Hopefully, this changes in the future, and we can just edit a box within the plugin. I have never seen files required by a plugin to change a phrase before.

That’s really a WordPress standard for both plugins and themes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+change+plugin+text+string

There is a plugin that you can use too called Say What.

In the Google Search Results above you’ll find several tutorials.

That said, the procedure is not easier and performance wise, it adds database calls that are not needed using the standard way, making your site slightly slower.

Thanks