How to change the text "Announcement"?

Geng

Announced threads get tagged with "Announcement". I'd like to change the word to "Sticky" since it's a more familiar term. How would I go about doing this?

peregrine

here is a fishing rod...

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26597/tutorial-how-to-change-wording-how-to-change-text-how-to-change-language-how-to-change-locale/p1

also - did this work for you?
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/28414/how-to-edit-forum-thread-view-count

peregrine

this might help as well.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/218275/#Comment_218275

Geng

I looked your links and looked through announce.php, cannot change title from there. Don't know how to do this.

peregrine

I'm not able to test right now.

what translations have you tested by adding a definition to /conf/locale.php

Geng

I have no locale.php in /conf

peregrine

re-read ---http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26597/tutorial-how-to-change-wording-how-to-change-text-how-to-change-language-how-to-change-locale/p1

and then try the obvious word to translate Announcement

@Geng said: I have no locale.php in /conf

then if you still can't find the answer after reading the discussion.

look at this link to answer

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/207043/#Comment_207043

it's pretty much all there - techniques and tools to find definitions. plugins, scripts, suggestions etc.

in the tutorial.

you can also download a transifex from a different language and look in the site_core.php and dash_core.php

to give you examples of various definitions. and just add what you need it you are using English and just want to translate a few words, just put them in /conf/locale.php

Geng

Ok the file to edit was not in /conf but /locale/en-CA/definitions.php

I did $Definition['Announcement'] = "Sticky"; and it worked.

Question- Will this also affect peoples posts? What if they typed "announcement" would it change their text to Sticky?

peregrine

@Geng said: Ok the file to edit was not in /conf but /locale/en-CA/definitions.php

I did $Definition['Announcement'] = "Sticky"; and it worked.

personally I wouldn't do this.

the problem with changing it in /locale/en-CA/definitions.php is that it will be over-written when you next upgrade.

Question- Will this also affect peoples posts? What if they typed "announcement" would it change their text to Sticky?

no.

read the instructions in tutorial and the line below.

if you add it to conf/locale.php or create your own locale it won't be overwritten. and I don't suspect you need to create your own locale.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/207043/#Comment_207043

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26597/tutorial-how-to-change-wording-how-to-change-text-how-to-change-language-how-to-change-locale/p1

hgtonight

@Geng said:
Ok the file to edit was not in /conf but /locale/en-CA/definitions.php

I did $Definition['Announcement'] = "Sticky"; and it worked.

This will revert the next time you update Vanilla. Add your custom definitions to the /conf/locale.php file as suggested.

Question- Will this also affect peoples posts? What if they typed "announcement" would it change their text to Sticky?

Definitions only overwrite text passed through the translate functions. User content is not passed through these functions.

EDIT - Crosspost

peregrine

thx for the logical support @hgtonight. its up to the user to choose

we cross-posted.

Geng

Ok thanks I got it

peregrine

no problem, now that you got it.

AaronWebstey

@Geng‌ you probably already did this, but my users don't like 'announcement' either. I added the following to conf/locale.php. Not sure if this is everything, but it's a start.

$Definition['Announcement'] = "Sticky";
$Definition['Announce'] = "Make Sticky";
$Definition['Announce...'] = "Sticky...";
$Definition["Don't announce."] = "Not sticky";
$Definition['Where do you want to announce this discussion?'] = "Where do you want this discussion to be sticky?";

peregrine

$Definition["Don't announce."] = "Smooth";
$Definition['Announce'] = "Stick it";
$Definition['Announcement'] = "Stuck";
$Definition['Where do you want to announce this discussion?'] = "Where do you want to stick this?";

AaronWebstey

That's awesome AND funny.

vrijvlinder

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