Is there a way to change 'Posts' to be 'Portfolio' is the WP backend?

Question

I'm developing a site for a client and am using the blog part of WordPress for her portfolio. I've also created a couple of page templates to list here workshops and current projects and used Custom Post Types to enable her to add content to these pages. It now looks strange to have her portfolio to be labelled as posts and I wondered whether this is easy to change without messing with the functionality of the website.

I want the navigation within the Wp backend to read:

Portfolio

Workshops

Current Proejcts

and then all the other links underneath.

Answer 1

You need to create a Custom Post Type, "Portfolio".

Posts are Posts. Why try to use them as something they're not, and then try to change their nomenclature, instead of writing one or two simple functions in functions.php, that will result in having both the exact functionality and the exact nomenclature that you want?

Answer 2

If you want to simply rename the appearance of posts, rather than creating a custom post type then add this code to your themes functions.php file.

// hook the translation filters
add_filter(  'gettext',  'change_post_to_portfolio'  );
add_filter(  'ngettext',  'change_post_to_portfolio'  );

function change_post_to_portfolio( $translated ) {
  $translated = str_ireplace(  'Post',  'Portfolio',  $translated );  // ireplace is PHP5 only
  return $translated;
}

In the interests of transparency I got this code from this article, although I have used similar tricks in the past.

Answer 3

this plugin changes post types: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-type-switcher/

i think this one works more in bulk http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/convert-post-types/

Answer 4

I used the following script to rename the default post type:

function change_post_menu_label() {
global $menu;
global $submenu;
$menu[5][0] = 'Portfolio';
$submenu['edit.php'][5][0] = 'Portfolio';
$submenu['edit.php'][10][0] = 'New Portfolio';
$submenu['edit.php'][16][0] = 'Portfolio Tags';
echo '';
}
function change_post_object_label() {
global $wp_post_types;
$labels = &$wp_post_types['post']->labels;
$labels->name = 'Portfolio';
$labels->singular_name = 'Portfolio';
$labels->add_new = 'New Portfolio';
$labels->add_new_item = 'New Portfolio';
$labels->edit_item = 'Edit Portfolio';
$labels->new_item = 'New Portfolio';
$labels->view_item = 'View Portfolio';
$labels->search_items = 'Search Portfolio';
$labels->not_found = 'Not found';
$labels->not_found_in_trash = 'Not found in trash';
 }
add_action( 'init', 'change_post_object_label' );
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'change_post_menu_label' );

Answer 5

// hook the translation filters
add_filter(  'gettext',  'change_post_to_article'  );
add_filter(  'ngettext',  'change_post_to_article'  );

function change_post_to_article( $translated ) {
     $translated = str_ireplace(  'Post',  'Article',  $translated );  // ireplace is PHP5 only
     return $translated;
}

I got this tip from smashing magazine and tested it and it works great

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/05/10/new-wordpress-power-tips-for-template-developers-and-consultants/

Answer 6

I found this thread when I was looking for a solution to change the post type from one name to an other.

Instead of doing a custom query as suggested by someone in here I simply did this:

$post = get_post( $id );      // The current post id
$post->post_type = 'receipt'; // The new post type name
wp_update_post( $post );      // Updating the new information

The cpt have to ofc already have been created and formated..

Answer 7

If you just want to change the admin menu label from Post -> Portfolio, then look at this question:

Changing Admin Menu Labels

[Update]

This plugin Admin Menu Editor looks like it will allow you to change menu labels more easily - I haven't tested it though.

Answer 8

You will just need to create another custom post with the same capabilities as a regular post. You can then disable the Posts menu with this:

function remove_menus()
{
    global $menu;
    $restricted = array( __('Posts'));
    end ($menu);

    while (prev($menu))
    {
        $value = explode(' ',$menu[key($menu)][0]);

        if(in_array($value[0] != NULL?$value[0]:"" , $restricted))
        {
            unset($menu[key($menu)]);
        }
    }
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_menus');