Is there a way to change the text of the publish button on a custom post type to say some different? For example, Save instead of Publish. And also remove the draft button?
asked Nov 2, 2010 at 22:29
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If you look into /wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php, you will find the meta box:
add_meta_box('submitdiv', __('Publish'), 'post_submit_meta_box', $post_type, 'side', 'core');
Note the __('Publish') – the function __() leads to translate() where you get the filter 'gettext'.
There are two ways to handle your problem: 1. Address the string in a single specialized function (be sure to match the correct textdomain!) or 2. use a more generic approach.
@Rarst has just now posted version 1, so I'll add version 2. :)
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Retranslate
Description: Adds translations.
Version: 0.1
Author: Thomas Scholz
Author URI: http://toscho.de
License: GPL v2
*/
class Toscho_Retrans {
// store the options
protected $params;
/**
* Set up basic information
*
* @param array $options
* @return void
*/
public function __construct( array $options )
{
$defaults = array (
'domain' => 'default'
, 'context' => 'backend'
, 'replacements' => array ()
, 'post_type' => array ( 'post' )
);
$this->params = array_merge( $defaults, $options );
// When to add the filter
$hook = 'backend' == $this->params['context']
? 'admin_head' : 'template_redirect';
add_action( $hook, array ( $this, 'register_filter' ) );
}
/**
* Conatiner for add_filter()
* @return void
*/
public function register_filter()
{
add_filter( 'gettext', array ( $this, 'translate' ), 10, 3 );
}
/**
* The real working code.
*
* @param string $translated
* @param string $original
* @param string $domain
* @return string
*/
public function translate( $translated, $original, $domain )
{
// exit early
if ( 'backend' == $this->params['context'] )
{
global $post_type;
if ( ! empty ( $post_type )
&& ! in_array( $post_type, $this->params['post_type'] ) )
{
return $translated;
}
}
if ( $this->params['domain'] !== $domain )
{
return $translated;
}
// Finally replace
return strtr( $original, $this->params['replacements'] );
}
}
// Sample code
// Replace 'Publish' with 'Save' and 'Preview' with 'Lurk' on pages and posts
$Toscho_Retrans = new Toscho_Retrans(
array (
'replacements' => array (
'Publish' => 'Save'
, 'Preview' => 'Lurk'
)
, 'post_type' => array ( 'page', 'post' )
)
);
You don't need to use the code as a plugin. Including it in your theme's functions.php will be enough.
Update
To remove the original Save button (not sure what the 'draft' button is), add the following code to your functions.php/a plugin:
add_action( 'admin_print_footer_scripts', 'remove_save_button' );
function remove_save_button()
{
?>
<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function($){$('#save-post').remove();});
</script><?php
}
Yes, it's ugly.
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Removing the save button is really hard, because
post_submit_meta_box()just dumps its content out. No filter at all. Javascript orob_start()could solve that. Both not very elegant.– fuxia ♦Nov 6, 2010 at 21:21 -
Hm, okay, I've added some code to remove the original Save button. Was not so hard. :)– fuxia ♦Nov 6, 2010 at 21:55
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I miss words to describe this :) - & said it before: the use of the comma to format the array deserves a PHP Formatters Award +1+ May 17, 2012 at 14:45
The code for hakre's suggestion to use translation filter would be something like this:
add_filter( 'gettext', 'change_publish_button', 10, 2 );
function change_publish_button( $translation, $text ) {
if ( $text == 'Publish' )
return 'Save';
return $translation;
}
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Are there reasons why "version 1" (the current accepted answer, written by @toscho) is superior/inferior to this approach? This seems to be the better of the two to me - simpler, doesn't require hacks to remove the "Save" button, and is more future-proof.– rinogoJun 23, 2016 at 0:53
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Your answer inspired me - I've evolved your approach to cover a lot more strings. wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/230513/10388– rinogoJun 23, 2016 at 2:33
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2The downside would be that translation filter fires a lot of times, hooking into it is significant performance overhead. This can be reduced by only filtering for a limited time by adding/removing the filter close to necessary point in runtime.– RarstJun 29, 2016 at 13:24
This is not a full answer but some directions: Any text displayed surpasses a translation filter and can therefore be changed in a callback function (hook). So if the hook is only registered on the page where you would like to change that, job done.
The draft button could be "removed" by hiding it via CSS. The CSS could be injected into the <head>-tag of the admin with another callback. I think the filter is called admin_head for that. It's somehow dirty as the button still is there, for example if a user switches CSS off.
For consistency, I'm assuming you'd prefer to use "Save" instead of "Publish" throughout Wordpress instead of just on the text of the button.
Based on the solution provided by @Rarst, I expanded the code so it translates many (all?) other instances of the word "Publish" to the appropriate variation of "Save".
add_filter("gettext", "translate_publish_post_status", 10, 2);
add_filter("ngettext", "translate_publish_post_status_number", 10, 5);
add_filter("ngettext_with_context", "translate_publish_post_status_number", 10, 6);
function translate_publish_post_status($translation, $text) {
switch($text) {
case "Publish": return "Save";
case "Published on: <b>%1\$s</b>": return "Saved on: <b>%1\$s</b>";
case "Publish <b>immediately</b>": return "Approve <b>immediately</b>";
case "Publish on: <b>%1\$s</b>": return "Approve on: <b>%1\$s</b>";
case "Privately Published": return "Privately Saved";
case "Published": return "Saved";
case "Save & Publish": return "Save"; //"Double-save"? :)
default: return $translation;
}
}
function translate_publish_post_status_number($translation, $single, $plural, $number, $domain) {
if($translation == "Published <span class=\"count\">(%s)</span>") {
return "Saved <span class=\"count\">(%s)</span>";
}
return $translation;
}
For removing the Draft button, the answer given by @toscho contains a good solution.
Another approach would be unregister the metabox, then re-register that same box with differing values, namingly the publish text..
See the discussion i had here regarding moving a meta box, you should be able to apply something similar to rename that Publish text.
You could just find the button via jQuery and swap the text node for something else. That would be a piece of cake to do.
Much cleaner & easier solution.
function change_publish_btn_txt() {
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery('#publish').attr('value', 'Your Custom Text');
});</script>";
}
add_action('admin_footer-post-new.php', 'change_publish_btn_txt', 99);
