Changing WordPress text in the login page

Hello everyone,

I have needed to post this hack a couple of times, so I decided to just make a post here.

What it does:

It basically changes some text that you would have to hack WordPress itself to change. So for example the submit button, you may want to change it from “Register” to “Submit” or “Sign up”, so this hack allows you to do this easily.

How to install:

Make a PHP file named “text-replacing-hack.php” (without the quotes) and inside it put the following code:

<?php
if(strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/wp-login.php') === TRUE) { // Change the condition so that it points to the page in which you want to change the text
	add_filter('gettext', 'my_translations', 10, 3);
	
	function my_translations($translated, $original, $domain) {
		if($original === 'Register') // Change this so that it reflects the text you want to translate
			$translated = 'Submit'; // Change this so that it reflects the text you want to replace it with

		return $translated;
	}
}

Now, make sure you put this file in a folder named “mu-plugins”, it stands for Must-use Plugins, this folder must go under wp-content/mu-plugins.

So the structure should be wp-content/mu-plugins/text-replacing-hack.php.

Hope this helps people. :)

Nice work, (Bookmarked)

Thanks for sharing.

Glad it’s helpful. :)

Just for future reference, this post in my website is gonna get updated if anything changes, while this one isn’t, just an FYI: http://eduantech.com/2012/08/wordpress-text-replacing-hack/

– Eduan