I'm building quite a specific theme and after creating a few extra post types, the original 'Posts' post type doesn't really fit in with the rest of them - it's far too generic. Ideally I'd like to rename it to something like 'News' but I'm having a little trouble finding a decent way of doing it.

 

I know there are a few plugins that can do it but I'd rather avoid them. Seems a bit of an overkill to use a plugin for this, plus I'll hopefully be marketing the theme so would rather have everything placed neatly in the functions.php instead of trying to bundle other people's plugins into my theme. The only half decent solution I've seen is a bit of a hack with translations, eg:

add_filter(  'gettext',  'change_post_to_article'  );
add_filter(  'ngettext',  'change_post_to_article'  );

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

 

But that feels like a bit of a gaffer-tape solution. Anyone know of any other ways to do it?

What about manipulating the labels on init?

 

function change_post_menu_label() {
global $menu;
global $submenu;
$menu[5][0] = 'News';
$submenu['edit.php'][5][0] = 'News';
$submenu['edit.php'][10][0] = 'Add News';
$submenu['edit.php'][16][0] = 'News Tags';
echo '';
}
function change_post_object_label() {
global $wp_post_types;
$labels = &$wp_post_types['post']->labels;
$labels->name = 'News';
$labels->singular_name = 'News';
$labels->add_new = 'Add News';
$labels->add_new_item = 'Add News';
$labels->edit_item = 'Edit News';
$labels->new_item = 'News';
$labels->view_item = 'View News';
$labels->search_items = 'Search News';
$labels->not_found = 'No News found';
$labels->not_found_in_trash = 'No News found in Trash';
}
add_action( 'init', 'change_post_object_label' );
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'change_post_menu_label' );

Awesome. That's exactly the sort of thing I was after.

Brought to you by WordPress now using the same API to register built-in post types as it exposes for custom ones.

Ah very handy, cheers Chris/WordPress

Chris/WordPress

 

Hmmmm... Now you mention it. He is awfully good at it and we've never seen them in the same room together...

Edited February 12, 201214 yr by Spitfire

Hmmmm... Now you mention it. He is awfully good at it and we've never seen them in the same room together...

 

Ooo, the thick plottens...

Hmmmm... Now you mention it. He is awfully good at it and we've never seen them in the same room together...

 

 

Busted.

Edited February 13, 201214 yr by Renaissance-Design