Change labels on 'Nickname' and 'Biographical Info' in user-edit.php

Question

For a project I'm working on, I want to change the labels of the 'Nickname' and 'Biographical Info' fields on edit profile (user-edit.php) page in the dashboard. I still want to use those fields as they are, I only want to change the labels. Anyone know of a function that can do this?

Answer 1

Every string goes through translate(), which uses the gettext filter. This mean you can try something like this:

add_filter( 'gettext', 'wpse6096_gettext', 10, 2 );
function wpse6096_gettext( $translation, $original )
{
    if ( 'Nickname' == $original ) {
        return 'Funny name';
    }
    if ( 'Biographical Info' == $original ) {
        return 'Resume';
    }
    return $translation;
}

It's probably even more efficient if you only call the add_filter when you are on the user-edit.php page (see the admin_head-user-edit.php hook or something like that).

Answer 2

I am late with answer, but here is my take anyway. Slight differences and that selective filter add.

add_action('admin_head-user-edit.php', 'setup_user_edit');

function setup_user_edit() {

    add_filter('gettext', 'change_profile_labels');
}

function change_profile_labels($input) {

    if ('Nickname' == $input)
        return 'Nickname replacement';

    if ('Biographical Info' == $input)
        return 'Biographical Info replacement';

    return $input;
}